If you've ever read one of James Altucher's articles, you will find them to often be frantic and full of completely useful information. Excellent writing but hard to summarize. The last Altucher post I summarized took me several weeks to so do. This one, "What I Learned..." was slightly easier, but still full of amazing information.
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- A life is measured in decades. Too many people want everything now. But a good life is like a bonfire - it builds slowly, and because it's slow and warm it caresses the heart instead of destroying it.
- A life is measured by what you did today. You get success in decades by having success now. Are you doing your best today?
- Focus is not important, "push" is. Focus is like saying, "I'm just going to learn about only one thing forever." But "push" is the ability to get up every day and push through all the things that make you want to go back to sleep.
- Give without thinking about what you will receive.
- Solving hard problems is more important that overcoming failure.
- Art, success, and love are about connecting all the dots. Everything is a dot: things you learn, things you read about, things you love. Connect them and create a legacy that will continue beyond you.
- It's not business, it's personal. Nobody succeeds with a great idea - they succeed because they build personal networks within networks of connections, friends, colleagues; all striving for personal goals, trusting each other, and working together.
- You can't predict the outcome, you can only do your best.
- The same philosophy of life should work for an emperor and a slave. You can't predict pleasure or pain. You can only strive for knowledge, giving, and fairness.
- The only correct path is the path correct for you. Don't think you have to fight your way to the top.
- Taking care of yourself comes first.
- The final answer: People do end up loving what they succeed at, or they succeed at what they love.
- Anybody, at any age. Age and status don't determine anything.
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