Reinvent Yourself

by James Altucher

So reinvention is: *Defining freedom in different ways (reducing expectations, increasing sources of income so no one source controls you). *Improving relationships. Plus, minus, equal: Finding mentors to teach you. Finding the next generation to teach. Finding

friends who build you up and challenge you. This is your “scene.” Everyone going through reinvention needs a scene. *Habits. It’s the 5x5 rule. You are not just the average of the five people around you. You’re the average of the five habits you do, the things you eat, the ideas you have, the content you consume, etc.

The environment is just as important as what you say.

Ask “open-ended questions” starting with “how” or “what.” Ask a lot of them. Be prepared in advance with your “how” questions.

You can start to get empathy with the other side by listing the negatives on your side.

You find your interests from back then and see how they age into the current day.

“Find the thing you did where you lost all sense of time while you are doing it,” Chip told me.

get back to what you loved when you were younger. Start to brainstorm how you can bring that even a little bit into your life now. And a little bit more the next day. And so on.

“Try many things.

shortcut to meaning is to just every day ask before you go to sleep, “Who did I help today?”

If too many things have to happen in order to bring about the situation you want, then back out of it and try again later.