The Lesson: Recently, serial entrepreneur James Altucher gave away all of his earthly possessions and decided to live the life of a nomad with no place to call home. Why? In order to attain the one thing money can’t buy: happiness. James tells Dave how his nomadic lifestyle has allowed him to increase his creativity, mental well-being and how it’s allowed him to finally find contentment.
Notable Excerpt: “Of course there’s big decisions like, ‘Who should I be in a relationships with? Where should I live?’ And all that stuff, but then there’s just thousands of mini decisions where, ‘My wifi is down, who do I call to fix it?’ Or things like, ‘I gotta buy a chair for this’ or ‘I’ve gotta maintain this.’ … What I wanted to do was make a larger percentage of the day – every day let’s say we make ten thousand choices, big and small – so I wanted to make a bigger percentage of my choices about what I really want to do as opposed to…
