What to Do When You Lose $9 Million in a Day

You can always make money back. You can NEVER make one minute of time back. March 26, 2021 [UNSUBSCRIBE]( | [WEBSITE]( [Altucher Confidential] [Warning] Do you enjoy receiving Altucher Confidential? Please [Click Here Now]( so we know to continue sending you Altucher Confidential for free! “You can always make money back. You can NEVER make one minute of time back.” [Cast and crew] What to Do When You Lose $9 Million in a Day By James Altucher The Grave Has Already Been Dug [Economy tombstone]( have to be blind not to see that the stock market is completely divorced from the economic reality… We have record unemployment, the millions of jobs lost in the pandemic aren’t coming back, and now Biden and Co. are running up the debt faster than any administration in history... And as the stock market continues to hit new highs...the REAL economy digs itself deeper and deeper into a recession… But you can’t fake a recovery... Which means that the grave has already been dug...And the stock market is just a deadman walking… All it would take is a tiny push to send us spiraling over the edge into the abyss. And on March 29th, 2021...THIS coming Monday...it looks like we just might get it. [Click here to see why we might be on the verge of the biggest stock market sell-off in history and how you could protect yourself.]( I lost $9 million while I was on the set of the pilot of “Billions” season one, long before it became the huge hit it would be. It was fascinating watching the shoot. I asked the director a ton of questions, the actors, the writers, etc. I love to learn. And I love to see creativity in process. I loved watching the actors shake to get ready for a scene. I loved how the director showed the same shot 10 times just to get the angle correct, while one car pulled out of a parking lot, inches from another expensive car pulling in (a metaphor for the risks the characters take). I loved seeing the pleasure on the faces of my friends, the writers, as their vision was coming to life. In the middle of the shoot, I got a call. Emergency board meeting! I owned $9 million of the company. I got excited! Maybe we were sold. Maybe my life was going to change. It did, but in the opposite way. Without going into the details: Bad stuff happened with one of the top shareholders of the company. The bank was calling in its loan. Everything was over. That day, the bank kicked everyone out, locked the doors, and sold off every part of this billion-dollar revenue company to other customers of the bank. Everyone won except us. Except me. I lost big. I had seven hours left to go before the shoot was over and we were in the middle of nowhere. Plus, I was terrified. Am I going to go broke? I’m going to go broke! My heart was beating so fast. I felt like I was going to throw up and cry. But I would be a hypocrite if I didn’t follow my own advice. 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Don’t travel to the past where your regrets live. Don’t travel to the future where your fears live. Lessons learned only live in the present. Satisfaction with life only lives right now, not in the future or past. This is the only way I’ve ever been able to bounce back from a clusterf***. I was scared. I was even terrified. A mountainside had fallen on me. I had to almost hypnotize myself. I had to say, “This is the moment I’ve been waiting for.” To prove to myself that my own writing wasn’t just self-help B.S. like everything else. Blech! A year later, I told one of the writers what happened. He said, “What? We couldn’t even tell. You were asking questions all day.” I don’t write because I’m an expert. I write because I need to always remember my own advice. My writing is the last branch on the tree for me before I fall. I don’t want to fall. I don’t want to fail. I remember that day for the fun I had. And I remember that day because I passed my own test. I focused on what was in front of me. Damian Lewis playing a billionaire. My friends creating. Directors shooting. Actors acting. I learned so much and I was happy. I followed my advice. I reinvented myself. I chose myself. Again. Sometimes I don’t. Sometimes I do. The more I practice choosing myself, the easier it will hopefully be each time. The books I write are love notes to my future self. They are bedtime stories for an older me. Write the book that is a love note to your future self. Sincerely, [James Altucher] James Altucher Billionaire Leaves Crowd In Shock [sky]( audience of a few hundred (including myself) quietly gathered in Washington D.C. a few months back. That’s when the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, took the stage… and shocked the entire room. It all has to do with this image you see on your screen… showing a surprising new discovery he’s made. Not only will this blow you away… it could also transform the American economy forever. 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