The James Altucher Show

You're either horrible or miserable. Woody Allen has this joke in "Annie Hall." He says, "Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That's the two categories. The horrible are terminal cases. You know? And blind people, crippled... I don't know how they get through life... It's amazing to me. And the miserable is everyone else. So you should be thankful that you're miserable. Because that's very lucky... to be miserable." I guess I'm one of the lucky ones. We complain about getting older or not having a passion, etc. "In relatively recent history-we're talking the 1980s and later-we got convinced into believing we all have a capital P 'Passion,'" Cal Newport said. Cal's a tenured professor at Georgetown. And majored in computer science. So did I. Fact: You can't pre-test a fetus to see what its passion will be. Passion is not in your DNA. I wasn't born to podcast. Or write. Or be a father. I was just born... And I have eyes. So I see what other people are doing. I have ears. So I hear who's winning