Choose Yourself: A Successful Entrepreneur On Negative Inner Chatter – with James Altucher
Do you admit to yourself that you have negative inner chatter? You know, thoughts like, “What if my company fails? I’m going to be out on the street.”
A few months ago I asked the audience if they had these issues and a few people in private confessed to me that they did. So, we started experimenting on solutions to overcome those issues. I think we’re making a lot of progress, but many people in this little group of mine have said, “Hey, you know what? We want to hear successful entrepreneurs talk about their inner chatter, admit that they have it if they do and talk about what goes on in their heads and how they deal with it.” Frankly it’s not as easy as it seems, but today I’ve got an entrepreneur who’s willing to talk about it.
James Altucher is back on Mixergy. He is an entrepreneur, a writer, investor, and chess player. Last time I interviewed him I asked him how he launched a site called Stock Picker on a shoestring and how he sold it for ten million dollars just a few months later. Since then he has continued to write multiple books including Choose Yourself, which has a forward by Dick Costolo, the CEO of Twitter.
James Altucher is an entrepreneur, a writer, investor, and chess player. He has continued to write multiple books including Choose Yourself, which has a forward by Dick Costolo, the CEO of Twitter.
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