Comments on: No Excuses! http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/12/no-excuses/ Ideas for a World Out of Balance Tue, 17 Feb 2015 09:06:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.3 By: Itgirrrl http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/12/no-excuses/#comment-28640 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 05:58:00 +0000 http://www.jamesaltucher.com/?p=4521#comment-28640 hmmm… the image of the Butterfly book should have a link to the amazon page…, don’t you think??!

]]> By: Leonardo Pavese http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/12/no-excuses/#comment-26875 Sat, 17 Dec 2011 14:36:00 +0000 http://www.jamesaltucher.com/?p=4521#comment-26875 It’s interesting that comics are, today, one of those forms of entertainment that used to be popular, in the strict sense of the word, like cinema, jazz (the music of the brothels) and even opera, and now have become a sort of cult. In some countries, (in Europe), they fall under the official classification of “culture”, and they are subsidized by the state. Comic books are now referred to as graphic novels; and it’s okay; but the market has shrunk considerably. I have to say though that also the artistic level has fallen considerably. Where are today’s Milton Caniff’s? Cinema is pretty much unbearable, with a few exceptions that nobody watches; jazz has become like a liturgy that repeats ad infinitum, always the same; and opera makes me laugh. I think that, today, the form of popular entertainment that reaches the artistic level of the comics and the motion pictures of the past is the American TV serial movie. That’s where the best of today’s writers and entertainers work. 
Good post Altucher.
L.      

]]> By: Michael Hemmingson http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/12/no-excuses/#comment-26831 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:52:00 +0000 http://www.jamesaltucher.com/?p=4521#comment-26831 as always, good advice.

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]]> By: 1000zahia http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/12/no-excuses/#comment-26794 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 07:41:00 +0000 http://www.jamesaltucher.com/?p=4521#comment-26794 Here are 10 post ideas for your blog:

1. 10 reasons why u shouldn’t be religious
2. 10 exact things u should do to build a high traffic website
3. 10 reasons why u shouldn’t date with a girl based solely on her personality.
4. 10 reasons why u shouldn’t watch TV at all
5. 10 reasons why u shouldn’t watch movies at all.
6. 10 reasons why u should think u r the best person on this world.
7. 10 reasons why nothing matters
8. why ur grades from college don’t matter in the real world.
9. 10 things u should learn before u turn 21
10. 10 things I want my daughters to know.

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]]> By: CTS http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/12/no-excuses/#comment-26788 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 01:56:00 +0000 http://www.jamesaltucher.com/?p=4521#comment-26788 Bravo :)

]]> By: PJ http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/12/no-excuses/#comment-26787 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:54:00 +0000 http://www.jamesaltucher.com/?p=4521#comment-26787 Hi James –

Great piece.  I sit and shake my head because you are dead on…again!  As a recently unemployed (albeit successful) sale rep/manager…I am sick to my stomach at the malice that these rats engage in.  After 17 years working for “the man” I have been fired 3 times from careers where I performed (top sales rep and manager in all positions) beyond expectations.  At 42 I am sick of all the horse shit that goes around corp America…I am not sure of a product but I am off to start my business and hopefully I won’t go broke in the process…but if I do it would be no different than getting fired after doing my job.  I appreciate your writings and look forward to more.  Also, enjoyed the book.  Keep it coming…and look out corp America…game on!

]]> By: P Jaunne http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/12/no-excuses/#comment-26786 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:47:00 +0000 http://www.jamesaltucher.com/?p=4521#comment-26786 A friend of mine has two kids.  One is just a “normal” kid who is quite popular in school, and with reasonably “normal” dose of fear of rejection or loss or making mistake.  The other kid, on the other hand, is completely fearless.  He is not afraid to try anything and can talk to anyone, any stranger to sell anything for school fundraising, without the slightest fear of rejection. I watched him with envy since I am an introverted type by nature who had to push myself really hard to do sales & marketing, public speaking, sales call etc,  when I did my first startup with a friend. I hated sales and selling all my life because of my innate temperament but I had to do it.  I overcame most of the fear eventually but not without much anxiety and difficulty. It would have been a lot easier if I were less shy and fearful. But like you said “the mountain can be climbed” if you choose to go for it.   So, where does the angst come from? I don’t know.  I think some of it is proably genetically encoded?  Some probably came from past experiences/trauma?

]]> By: Kevin Faul http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/12/no-excuses/#comment-26785 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:17:00 +0000 http://www.jamesaltucher.com/?p=4521#comment-26785 I like your blog.

]]> By: James Altucher http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/12/no-excuses/#comment-26783 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 22:46:00 +0000 http://www.jamesaltucher.com/?p=4521#comment-26783 I think its a very important question. There’s lots of answers. I think we all have  our mountains, our angst. A lot of it boils down to howmuch love we have in our lives, how much we had growing up, how much suffering in other ways we’ve been through. i don’t know.

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