The James Altucher Show

"Have a spirit of adventure, the desire to learn something new, be an explorer and never get too comfortable."   -------   "Imagine this room is filling up with poisonous gas," Tim said. He's looking straight at me. "There's two doors behind me, one window and one to either side." He points exactly where everything is, even though he's still looking straight at me.   "We have several choices," he said, "I can pick the locks of one of the doors. I can break down the doors. I can smash one of the windows and we can climb out. We have three minutes until we die. What do we do?"   Tim is aware of everything around him. Which is probably why I started off the podcast with:   "We have nothing in common."   "We're 30 seconds into the interview and we're already disagreeing," he said.   It's a creative challenge to figure out how to relate with each person I meet... He's a US Army Special Forces sniper. He's been to Iraq and Afghanistan. He's an MMA fighter. And has multiple black belts.   I have zero black belts. I