Choose yourself | James Altucher | TEDxSanDiego

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. James Altucher is now considered to be a reknowned author and serial entrepreneur, but in this brutally honest talk, injected with outrageous humor, he reveals how at one point failure led him to consider suicide, and how he turned his life around by following five key practices. Improve your physical health (focus on exercise and diet), improve your emotional health (be around people that you love and trust), improve you spiritual health (always expressing gratitude), capture your brilliance (write down ten ideas every day), and finally, give without expectation (give your ideas away). “If you don’t make the choices in your own life, then someone else is going to end up making them for you, and it won’t be good.” James Altucher is a successful entrepreneur, chess master, investor and writer. He is the author of the WSJ and Amazon Best-Sellers “Choose Yourself” and “The Power Of No” as well as ten other books. He has started and run more than 20 companies, and sold several of those businesses for large exits and failed miserably at all the rest. His book “Choose Yourself” explains how he rose from repeated failure to find success. He has also run venture capital funds, hedge funds, is an active angel investor, and currently sits on the boards of several companies. About TEDx, x = independently organized event In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

Comments

1. This was brilliant..Love this guy.
2. James the speaker is so different from James the writer
3. James Altucher's 5 Keys to overcoming depression and living a life of meaning:
   1. Health & Fitness
   2. Loving Relationships
   3. "Creative Gratitude" find un-obvious things to be grateful for. His version of Spirituality
   4. Exercise your idea muscle. Give yourself permission to come up with bad ideas and write down at least 10 new ideas every day.
   5. Share your ideas with others (people, business, organizations, for free. Gives your ideas away with no expectation of a return. This will help network and lead to many opportunities in the future.
4. That was Awesome ! Good laughs ! unexpected
5. I am so grateful for what I'm learning from James Altucher. I am reading all his books right now.
6. anyone know him from Quora??
7. going from 50 Million dollars to Zero seemed impossible to me, proves me I was wrong.......
8. James is amazing. So generous and humble entrepreneur which huge distance to himself. His wisdom and the way how he share it is so accurate. I constantly learning from him new things. Thanks James!
9. He took that shirt right out of the box and put it on
10. Amazing and Very, Very humble entrepreneur! support @jaltucher and join his e-mail list - a joy to get these gems in my inbox!
11. i joined James Altucher news letter but it doesn't show you how to invest nor point one to a certain stock.
    
    Anyone have this experience?
12. Here's a great idea; Have gov'ts promote personal and local gardens and farms (like "Farm From a Box) and prove to the globalists elitists that the planet is not overpopulated but rather, the ingenuity of humans is suppressed by those same elitists.
13. he was socially anxious as fuck
14. The funniest TED talk of all time.
15. where itsb@ set selection feat w what u got... fiction in real life...[?]
    ...:');
16. James is so generous, unbelivable
17. he is so funny.
18. The gratitude solution is same as playing the glad game of Polyanna! :)
19. Very informative. Great presentation👍
20. What kind of Idea? Can you give a pretty Clue?