Be So Stupid They Can't Ignore You

I didn't know anything. I didn't have anything. I had no resources. So I gave up… June 03, 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! “I didn't know anything. I didn't have anything. I had no resources. So I gave up....” [Man playing piano in the street] Be So Stupid They Can't Ignore You By James Altucher [How to Write a Book that Doesn't Suck]( I had an idea for a business. This was 1993. I was going to take videos of houses for sale. I would charge a real estate agency per house I videotaped. I was going to get rich. Rich! Customers of the agency would no longer have to go to the house. They could just go to the agency and watch the video. I went to six real estate agencies and they actually laughed at me and said, "No thanks." That was the end of that business idea. Here's what I didn't have: - A video camera - Any video skills whatsoever. I had never taken a video before. - Zero sales ability. I had never tried to sell anything before. - Zero money. I had no idea how I would buy a video camera. - Zero knowledge. Did the real estate agency have VCRs? - A car. How was I going to drive miles around to every house? I didn't know anything. I didn't have anything. I had no resources. I gave up. Today I'm meeting with a company that does virtual reality tours of houses. Anyway, they've signed on with one of the largest real estate agencies in the world. Does this mean I should have been persistent? Of course not. Ready. Fire. Aim. That's the ONLY way you can learn, not waste time, move on to the next experience. Stupidity is the rungs on the ladder to success. So then I applied for a job at a comic book store. I loved comics. "We don't really have enough business to hire people," the guy at the comic book store told me. I wrote four or five novels (I honestly forget) that never got published. I had them printed up and I saved them for over 20 years. You never know! Recently I threw them all out. Gone forever. Should I have been persistent? Of course not! They were horrible. After I left graduate school, I wanted to have an interesting experience. [I tried to move into a homeless shelter.]( Top Expert Issues Stunning Dow Prediction: “Dow 50,000 Is Right Around The Corner…” [Animated image of a man speaking]( Forget Worries Of A Second Crash… Could The Dow Hit 50,000 By 2023? Do Not Buy Another Stock Until You Hear This Prediction. [Click To Watch.]( To be honest, I was so down on myself I thought the best way to meet women would be in a homeless shelter. It would be like a college dormitory, I thought. Only everyone would be homeless. And lovable. The manager at the homeless shelter thought I was too crazy to live in a homeless shelter. He said no. Persistence is overrated. If they had said yes to me working at the comic book store then I probably wouldn't today be about to interview one of my all-time favorite singers. If the gatekeepers had published any of my novels I'd be a struggling and unhappy writer. If I stayed in graduate school, I don't know. I'd have spent nine years working on a useless Ph.d. thesis instead of interviewing prostitutes at 3 in the morning for HBO. If they said yes to me living in the homeless shelter then maybe today I'd be homeless. I could have tried harder. I could have resisted all the NOs. I could have resisted and struggled and fought. But why? Resistance is the opposite of persistence. It blocks you into thinking there is only one thing that will make you happy. This is the worst disease and it's chronic. So many people I talk with are unhappy because someone, at some point, blocked something they were working on. Like a blockage in the artery that prevented the heart from success. They get obsessed with this blockage. They can't stop thinking about it. They get angry. They can't forgive. They can't forget. They get stuck. The "No" they got, ended up defining them. Persistence in having many experiences is more important than having persistence in one experience. The other day I saw a guy playing a piano in the middle of the street. I asked him what he was doing there. "Living the dream," he told me. "Living the dream." Sincerely, [James Altucher] James Altucher New Federal Rule could change America forever [Man in a suit signing papaers]( about your way of life is about to change – thanks to a new rule passed by the Federal Government. How much you pay for energy… how you shop for groceries… even how much you pay for healthcare – it could all radically change. That’s according to the man dubbed “The Tech Prophet” by Forbes magazine. 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