Book notes from Choose Yourself Guide to Wealth by James Altucher

As you know, one of my favourite books of all time is Choose Yourself by James Altucher. This follow up book is more of a “okay, I really liked Choose Yourself but how do I implement it?” — it’s a book on the specific tactics that James has done himself to build wealth. James claims that he does not write self help books — his books are about what has worked for him and not general advice books that may or may not work for everyone else. While I’ve only implemented a few of the things in his daily practice, I have already seen huge gains in my life — I feel like I have more energy (by exercising a little bit every day), I feel like I am generating more and more ideas (by coming up with 10 ideas every day) and I feel more satisfied and happier with things in my life (by being grateful every day). When we like specific authors, we (or maybe it’s just me) can’t help but absorb everything that the author has and will write and one way for me to remember what I have learned from James is to summarize it in my own words to others — here are some of the key ideas from James’ book that really hit home for me:

Ideas are the currency of the 21st century

A long time ago, I remember asking my friends about different business ideas they had and almost all of them refused to tell me. “If I had a great business idea, I…