
The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

Poor speakers create an artificial divide between themselves and the audience. They feel they need to do this in order to establish their own credibility. Let me tell you—there is no such thing as credibility. In one hundred years there will be no buildings named after any of us. Somebody has to be on stage and some people have to be in the audienc
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Ultimately, the best speakers are the ones who have put 10,000 hours into listening.
James Altucher • The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth
We don’t write about the things we know. We write about the things that are deep down challenges for us right now.
James Altucher • The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth
Sell The Dream People can see what your product is right now. What they want to know is… the future. Will your product make them more money? Will it get them a promotion? Maybe even, will you hire them if they buy your product? When you get in the door, do not sell your product. People make a decision on your product in five seconds. Sell the dream
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ABS—Always Be Storytelling. Never give advice in a talk. Nobody, I don’t care who you are, is smart enough to just dole out advice. Just talk about your own experiences and what you did to help yourself. Mix in interesting facts. Straight out advice will never help anyone. Buddha himself realized this about public speaking. He said, “Don’t believe
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PowerPoint will only distract from the main attraction: you.
James Altucher • The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth
There’s no such thing as instant health. There’s only such thing as practice and progress. All you have to do is check the box on progress. Progress compounds every day into enormous abundance.
James Altucher • The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth
Here’s the operating theory: you don’t need to spend 10,000 hours at anything to be the best. You just need to be pretty good at something (spend a couple of hundred hours) and then you need to know how to give a good talk in public. You will stand out, because so few people want to talk in public.
James Altucher • The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth
We spend years building a garden. We plant the seeds. We tend the soil. We water the plants. But we are also the sun. The sun shines no matter what. It doesn’t care which flower blossoms. The sun is always there providing value every second of the day. Be the sun and you will create abundance.