{"id":846,"date":"2014-09-21T11:26:03","date_gmt":"2014-09-21T05:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=846"},"modified":"2014-09-21T11:26:03","modified_gmt":"2014-09-21T05:56:03","slug":"following-james-altucher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/21\/following-james-altucher\/","title":{"rendered":"Things or two I learnt following James Altucher."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-847\" src=\"http:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/foo-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"foo\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/foo-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/foo-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/foo.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A lot people like Peter Theil is not a big fan of Twitter, everyone has an opinion or belief and we should respect it.<\/p>\n<p>About me, I have always been a connector &amp; Twitter is one of the best things happened to me. A few months back a tweet\u00a0from\u00a0<a class=\"twitter-atreply pretty-link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jaltucher\"><s>@<\/s>jaltucher<\/a>\u00a0 landed in my timeline, it was a\u00a0Eureka moment for me because I was going through turbulent\u00a0times in my personal &amp; professional life.<\/p>\n<p><em>I made a small list which I have kept as a\u00a0sticky note after going through his blog &amp; podcast.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>1. Be Honest with yourself.<\/p>\n<p>2. Ask whenever you need something.<\/p>\n<p>3. Fail fast &amp; start something new.<\/p>\n<p>4. Your health is key to your successful life.<\/p>\n<p>5. Stay away from those who don&#8217;t respect you or are pessimistic.<\/p>\n<p>6. Be Naked, always open to accept &amp; exchange ideas.<\/p>\n<p>7. Help help help others without expecting immediate returns.<\/p>\n<p>8. Get into the habit of reading.<\/p>\n<p>9. Being crazy is good.<\/p>\n<p>10. You have an idea, work on it forget about the end result, give it a try to start with.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In case you want to know more about \u00a0James Altucher, please follow him on\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/@jaltucher\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesaltucher.com\" target=\"_blank\">Homepage<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/James-Altucher\/e\/B001IOBN80\/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1411277998&amp;sr=8-2-ent\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon Page<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I will keep adding more to the list over time. I am hoping next year I will be in a position to buy all his books as am still catching up with all his blogs &amp; podcasts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A lot people like Peter Theil is not a big fan of Twitter, everyone has an opinion or belief and we should respect it. About me, I have always been a connector &amp; Twitter is one of the best things happened to me. A few months back a tweet\u00a0from\u00a0@jaltucher\u00a0 landed in my timeline, it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/21\/following-james-altucher\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Things or two I learnt following James Altucher.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,3],"tags":[43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":848,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions\/848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}