The Steve Martin Technique for Choosing Yourself

Gatekeepers can’t create your success. Only you can. February 20, 2020 [UNSUBSCRIBE]( | [WEBSITE]( [Altucher Confidential] “Gatekeepers can’t create your success. Only you can.” [Enable Images To See More] The Steve Martin Technique for Choosing Yourself By James Altucher You won’t believe what he says at 2:56 of this clip [Watch By Midnight Friday] [Please Enable Images](Recently, we conducted a brief interview with a world-renowned market trader… And right around the three-minute mark, he begins to reveal the secret Wall Street hopes you never find out. It could potentially help you [win between 83% and as high as 92% of your trades]( from now on… And double your money or more in as little as four days — over and over again. Bottom line: If you want to level the field between you and the Fat Cats, [click here.]( Steve Martin was sick of it. He was performing in front of sold-out stadiums. But nobody wanted him and everyone forgot him. The reason: he was opening up for others. For the Carpenters, Toto, and others. He had to be CHOSEN BY them. It was THEIR crowd coming to the stadiums. It was THEIR crowd waiting patiently for Martin to finish his act. And it was their crowd that quickly forgot him. But… sold-out stadiums! Doesn’t matter. It’s good practice. But it didn’t do anything else for him. It didn’t build his audience (“platform” in today’s social media language). So he chose himself. He made HIMSELF the headliner instead of the opener that nobody knew. How? He began renting smaller venues. And filing it up with his small but growing number of fans. His skills improved even faster, with feedback from an audience that loved him. He started getting bigger and bigger venues. Soon HE was renting out stadiums and filling them up. And the entire audience was there for just Steve Martin. Then he quit. This wasn’t a new idea: Shakespeare owned part of the theater production company that produced almost all of his plays. Charlie Chaplin started the film company United Artists in 1919 to have complete control over his movies. Lucille Ball refused CBS’s demand that she use a different actor than her husband Desi Arnaz to play her husband in “I Love Lucy.” They didn’t think Americans wanted a Cuban-born main character. So they took their show on the road, it was a huge hit across America, and CBS relented. “I Love Lucy” is the most influential sitcom in history. They took it one step further: They started DesilLu Productions to produce their own ideas. One of those ideas: a little known show at the time called “Star Trek.” There’s nothing I love more than helping people make more money. [Please Enable Images](You have to see my newest book — it could change your life. Stop running in circles and take charge of your future. [Click here now]( to learn how to claim your free copy of my book. I lied. I said Steve Martin quit. What I meant was: he quit doing standup comedy. He wanted to write and act and keep learning. Like we all should. But nobody would give him a starring role. Nobody! So he wrote a movie “The Jerk,” and would only let it be produced if HE played the starring role. He didn’t wait to audition for a role in someone else’s movie. HE WROTE the movie! Paramount passed, in part, because of this. Universal picked it up, Carl Reiner directed and it’s now considered one of the funniest films ever made. Steve Martin’s goal when writing the script: have at least one laugh on every page of the script. He didn’t quit. He chose himself further. I’m not Steve Martin, or Shakespeare, or anyone. Sometimes I think I’m mediocre at lots of things. But I get passionate about many ideas. And whenever I sense there’s a gatekeeper getting in the way of something I want to do, all I obsess on is how I can get around the gatekeeper. This doesn’t mean own your own studio (YouTube can also bypass the studios). This doesn’t mean own the venue. This doesn’t mean go on the road and build an audience. Although it could mean all of these things. I wanted to publish a book I didn’t think anyone else would publish it. So I did create a publishing company to do it. I wanted to write newsletters to educate people and The Wall Street Journal said no in 2009. So I created my own newsletter company in 2015. I wanted to do standup comedy 3-6 nights a week. So I… (this I’ll save for another story). Process is art. Getting a TV show or $1 million or whatever is an outcome. But the process is now critical for the art and the success. Gatekeepers can’t create your success. Only you can. This past year has been the most pleasurable year of my life. And I hope this next year will be good for you and me both. You and I are the same. When you and I are stuck: let’s get unstuck. Book recommendations: - Steve Martin’s “[Born Standing Up](” - “[Conversations with Steve Martin](” - “[My Autobiography](” by Charlie Chaplin Sincerely, [James Altucher] James Altucher Even if You Don’t Read Dirty Magazines… Here’s one time you should’ve… [Please Enable Images](In 1981, a dirty magazine published an article that had the potential to make its readers filthy rich. They interviewed the author of Microcosm in 1990, Life After Television in 1994, and Telecosm in 2002. Each one of these books issued predictions of new tech that took the world by storm and would gotten you ahead of the millions of people investing in them. Today this same author has a new book and wrote: “The next paradigm could impact over $16.8 trillion in the world economy. 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