Inspiring Life Lessons From James Altucher
I’ve never spoken to James in person. The odd email, here and there.
But we’re not friends. Nothing like that. Yet the impact he’s had on me… substantial.
Not just through his book, podcasts and written word.
But how he goes about being himself.
I find that’s important. The ones who inspire you the most… it’s not just what they do or how they teach that matters, but rather who they are and why they are; the things they don’t say; the aspects that lie between the lines.
Here are 4 Inspiring Life Lessons James Altucher has unknowingly passed onto me.
1: Choose Yourself
His book, ‘Choose Yourself’ had an impact on me. It’s a great book. One I’ve recommended to many people, especially when I speak to younger folk: those with their lives ahead of them.
The message is simple enough: Choose Yourself.
Not the path you think you need to take.
Not the one your parents want.
Or that society chooses.
Or the media or whoever else.
Choose the one you wish to choose.
It isn’t that a “job” is bad, but it isn’t for everyone.
The same applies to university and college.
Choose YOU — whatever that looks like.
And even when you do Choose Yourself (as I did some years ago), you need to continue to do so.
As you work with clients
As you build a team
As you fall in love and start a family
You have to keep choosing yourself.
What other option is there?
2: Be Yourself
I don’t know James. I know people who do, and I hear great things. But I don’t know him.
Yet I feel like I do because he seems to be true to who he is at all times.
It comes across in his writing.
When he does an interview
On his own podcast.
Across social media.
We can only ever be one person: Who We Are.
Yet how often do you wear a mask?
How often do you try to be someone you’re not?
I do. Less so these days, but I still do it.
It’s hard to be myself Sometimes I don’t like the person staring back.
Maybe you can relate…
If so, you can change.
But whatever happens, you remain you; flaws and all.
I found Kamal Ravikant through James.
Mr ‘Love Yourself” himself.
He is very much true to who he is.
James seems to be, too.
It’s raw and honest and vulnerable, and it will both pull and push people away.
Nobody is loved by everybody. But who loves anyone who tries to do exactly that?