How To Diversify Your Lifejamesaltucher.com • Posted by James AltucherOne time I want­ed to sell my com­pa­ny to HBO. The CFO was look­ing at the num­bers. They were will­ing to buy it for a tiny amount but it was an amount that would’ve taken me about one bil­lion years to save… Diver­si­fy ideas. Many peo­ple ask me, “when I’m work­ing on my list of ten ideas for the day so as to build the idea mus­cle, should they all be busi­ness ideas, or ideas around one sec­tor?” No! Write ideas about any­thing you can. Then mate them. Here’s an exer­cise right now. Make two columns. At the top of each col­umn, write an inter­est. Then write down five ideas for each that has to do with each idea. Now cross-fertilize them. Come up with many ideas com­bin­ing the two columns as pos­si­ble. You will never be the best in the world at any­thing (unless you are, then ignore this), but you can be good at many things. The beau­ty of that is that you then become the best in the world at the inter­sec­tion of all these things. It’s at that inter­sec­tion that you can com­plete­ly direct traf­fic and change the world.

How To Diversify Your Life
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One time I want­ed to sell my com­pa­ny to HBO. The CFO was look­ing at the num­bers. They were will­ing to buy it for a tiny amount but it was an amount that would’ve taken me about one bil­lion years to save…

Diver­si­fy ideas. Many peo­ple ask me, “when I’m work­ing on my list of ten ideas for the day so as to build the idea mus­cle, should they all be busi­ness ideas, or ideas around one sec­tor?” No! Write ideas about any­thing you can. Then mate them. Here’s an exer­cise right now. Make two columns. At the top of each col­umn, write an inter­est. Then write down five ideas for each that has to do with each idea. Now cross-fertilize them. Come up with many ideas com­bin­ing the two columns as pos­si­ble. You will never be the best in the world at any­thing (unless you are, then ignore this), but you can be good at many things. The beau­ty of that is that you then become the best in the world at the inter­sec­tion of all these things. It’s at that inter­sec­tion that you can com­plete­ly direct traf­fic and change the world.