James Altucher: Skip The Line (#119)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

In Skip The Line: The 10,000 Experiments Rule and Other Surprising Advice for Reaching Your Goals, James Altucher busts the 10,000-hour rule of achieving mastery, offering a new mindset and dozens of techniques that will inspire any professional—no matter their age or managerial level—to pursue their passions and quickly acquire the skills they need to succeed and achieve their dreams.

This episode is itself an experiment, as Brian onboards James to Clubhouse and uses it to interact with listeners live.

James is a successful entrepreneur, angel investor, chess master and prolific writer. He has started and run more than 20 companies and is currently invested in over 30.

He is the author of 18 books, including WSJ best-sellers: 'The Power of No' and 'Choose Yourself'. His latest book, "Reinvent Yourself" was #1 in the Amazon store shortly after its release.

His writing has appeared in major media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, The New York Observer, Techcrunch , The Financial Times, Yahoo Finance and others. His blog, JamesAltucher.com, has attracted more than 20 million readers since its launch in 2010.

He hosts a successful podcast, "The James Altucher Show" with guests of the caliber of Tony Robbins, Mark Cuban, Pieter Thiel, Arianna Huffington, Coolio, etc. His podcasts have had over 30 million downloads.

Join him at JamesAltucher.com or on Twitter @Jaltucher on Instagram @altucher

You can also text him questions on his personal cell phone [phone]

• 00:00:00 Intro
• 00:06:24 How do you keep motivated to do 10,000 experiments during the slow start?
• 00:07:48 How to hack the 10,000 rule to become great at almost anything.
• 00:33:11 The Michelson Morley Experiment Example: How it changed physics.
• 00:10:10 Why should experiments have high stakes? Being fearless!
• 00:14:09 An experiment in writing: Buying Greenland.
• 00:17:20 Experimentation pushes the limits of your knowledge.
• 00:21:20 Examples from games - Chess.
• 00:23:29 The 200 Experiment "rule".
• 00:25:11 The Plus-Minus-Equals method. The Spoke and Wheel Method.
• 00:27:31 Brian's Galileo Experiment.
• 00:33:47 The pajama experiment.
• 00:34:38 Applications to risk management and resiliency.
• 00:36:47 The Spoke and Wheel Method.
• 00:41:38 The one experiment that changed James Altucher's life forever. Overcoming the fear of failure.
• 00:53:41 Will there be a creator economy?

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