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what they want to do
in life.
The world is a very big place.
It’s bigger than five classes
a day on philosophy or
chemical engineering.
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Colleges have made use of
the myth that you can’t
get a job unless you have
a college education.
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rush to get that college
out of the way so they can
get a job and “begin” their
adult lives.
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College costs have risen 1,000% in
the past 30 years while healthcare
has risen 700% and inflation has
risen “only” 300%.
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Right now
student loan
debt is greater
than homeowner
debt & credit card
debt in this country.
That’s a lot of debt.
y x
o
Whereas previously we’ve created
generations of innovators and
creators, now we are creating
a generation of young people mired
down in hopeless debt.
When will they get
to live life?
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y x
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TWith college:
A) You learn very little that you use
in real life.
B) You are so burdened by debt that you
can’t use your new-found knowledge
to create real freedom and joy for
yourself.
C) A young person can use their energy
in many other ways than just college.
y x
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So, in lieu of college, here are:
I could’ve made this list 100 alternatives long.
But I think you should come up with alternatives
as well. There’s lots of ways to get experience,
learn skills, make money, avoid debt, find
happiness, avoid sadness, and deal with the fear
that you aren’t accomplishing something simply
because you didn’t choose the too-easy path of
going to college at the age of 18.
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xThis is the college of the streets.
And when you have to eat what you
kill, you learn extremely fast.
START A BUSINESSy
You learn how to come up with ideas that
will be accepted by other people. Most kids
graduate college with an atrophied idea
muscle. Starting a business forces you to
exercise that muscle every day.
y x
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xYou will meet other foreigners
traveling. You will learn what
poverty is. You will learn the value
of how to stretch a dollar.
TRAVEL THE WORLDy
You will often be in situations where
you need to learn how to survive
despite the odds being against you.
You will learn you aren’t
the center of the universe.
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y x
o
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xCREATE ART
Creation doesn’t happen from inspiration.
It happens from perspiration, discipline, and
passion. Creativity doesn’t come from God. It’s
a muscle that you need to learn to build.
Why not build it while your brain is still creating
new neurons at a breathtaking rate than learning
it when you are older (and for many
people, too late).
Spend a year learning how to paint. Or how to
play a musical instrument. Make a band and
tour with it. Or write 5 novels. Learn to
discipline yourself to create.
y x
o
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alternative
x
MAKE PEOPLE LAUGH
This will teach you how to write. How
to communicate. How to sell yourself.
How to deal with people who hate you. How
to deal with the psychology of failure
on a daily basis. And, of course,
how to make people laugh.
Spend a year learning how to do
standup-comedy in front of people.
y x
o
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alternative
x
WRITE A BOOK
Write a novel about what you are
doing instead of going to college.
You’ll learn how to observe people.
Writing is a meditation on
life. You’ll live each day,
interpret it, and write it.
y x
o
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x
WORK IN CHARITY
If you do any of these items for a
year, two years, maybe ten, then
maybe go to college? Why not?
It’s your life.
What is going to serve you better in life:
taking French Literature 101 or spending
a year delivering meals to senior
citizens with Alzheimers, or curing
malaria in Africa.
y x
o
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alternative
x
MASTER A GAME
Once you master one game, it teaches you
“how to master” in general. This is an incredibly
useful skill to learn. Particularly if you can do
it for cheap. A chessboard and some chess books
cost a lot less than a college
education.
Mastering a game builds discipline, lets
you socialize with other people of all ages
and backgrounds but who have similar passions,
and helps you to develop the instincts of a
killer without having to kill anyone.
y x
o
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alternative
x
MASTER A SPORT
Probably even better than mastering
a game because it’s the same as all
of the above but you also get in
shape.
y x
o
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alternative
x
WANT TO BE A DOCTOR?
So before you sign up for ten years of
hell and a million in debt do this:
Volunteer at a hospital, or at a morgue,
get in touch with your element, see what
they do, how they work, you may find
doctors don’t quite know as much as you
thought they did, you may find
you don’t like being vomited on.
Don’t you need a degree? Maybe.
y x
o
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alternative
x
WANT TO BE A Lawyer?
Work as a paralegal, do it for
free for a year, see what really
goes on in the law firm.
Watch those lawyers working 80 hours a week,
sleeping in the office. See the first year
associates come in with their huge debts to
pay only to find themselves in caucus rooms
full of boxes with boring documents that they
have to highlight for at least a
year or two. See if you want that.
y x
o
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x
Do aNYTHING YOU WANT
FOR ONE YEAR.
take a break.
Lower your expectations about
what you need to accomplish so quickly. In the
past 100 years lifespans have more than doubled.
There’s no rush at the age of 18 to dive into five
more years of stress.
Take a break. It’s when you lower your expectations
that the full range of possibilities becomes open
to you. Try it and see what happens,
what passions fall your way.
y x
o
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xGO TO UNCOLLEGE.ORG
Take courses in things you are
interested in.
The web is an amazing thing. They didn’t
have it when I began college. But there are
sites like uncollege.org where you can see
a full list of courses being offered online
by universities from all over the world.
From Stanford to MIT to random
courses on just about any topic.
THE JAMES
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y x
o
What am
I grateful
for today?
What spiritual
practice did
I do today?
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alternative
x
DO THE DAILY PRACTICE FOR A
YEAR and see where it takes you
The basic idea is to kick start your
health, your idea muscle, your creativity,
your motivations, & your spiritual life
Exercise
How Many Hours
Did You Sleep?
What Did You Eat
Today?
PHYSICAL
What Negative People Did you
ignore?
What People Did you Connect?
What positive people did you
bring into your life?
Emotional
Idea List (with
functionality so people
can track ideas)
What Did You Read Today?
(not counting media)
MENTAL
SPIRITUAL
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o
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xTAKE A JOB
You’ll learn how to work. You’ll learn about
customer satisfaction. You’ll be forced to
deal with people who are not like you
(and you might not even like).
These are skills not taught in college and
many people learn them too late in life
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y x
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alternative
x
WRITE A SCRIPT
FOR A MOVIE
Go ahead, try it. You won’t be able to do it
later. Watch a bunch of horror movies and
then write a script for one. Get Syd Field’s
book on writing screenplays.
It might be a crazy idea. When you are 40!
But it’s certainly not a crazy idea right now.
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alternative
x
DIRECT A DOCUMENTARY
ON SOMETHING YOU ARE INTERESTE in
For instance, do you like baseball?
Track down everyone who has caught the baseballs
of record-breaking hits: Babe Ruth’s homerun record,
Hank Aaron, Derek Jeter’s hitting record, etc.
I’m making this up off the top of my head.
I hate baseball. But a documentary like this has
a nice arc: with each segment, for instance:
what made Ruth such a success, or Aaron, or
whoever. Why was the baseball so coveted?
Follow its rise in price over the years
and see who owns it now and why.
THE JAMES
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y x
o
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alternative
x
AUDITION IN BROADWAY
FOR A WHOLE YEAR
And you never know, you
could be a star!
See what it takes, how you can do it.
Acting is not a bad skill to learn no
matter where your life takes you.
And you will build friendships and
contacts from all walks of life.
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y x
o
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alternative
x
VOLUNTEER GARDENING
AROUND YOUR
NEIGHBORHOOD
You will learn about real estate,
about gardens and plants.
Shovel snow in the winter. You will
learn about your community.
THE JAMES
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y x
o
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alternative
x
BECOME A REAL
ESTATE AGENT
See if you have what it takes to sell things.
You will learn marketing, sales, interior
design, the basics of architecture, and again
you never know who you can meet in the
process of this that could catapult your
career in a completely different direction.
THE JAMES
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y x
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alternative
xTAKE UP YOGA
Yoga is a way of life that cleanses
the body. It’s about nutrition. It’s about
being honest. It’s about meditation. It’s
about being kind to people.
And, getting back to the physical,
you will get into BRUTAL shape. Is that
such a bad thing to do for a year than
spending $50,000 going to
a school.
THE JAMES
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y x
o
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alternative
x
GO TO 4 VIPASSANA MEDITATION
RETREATS WITHIN ONE YEAR
They are completely free and brutal.
Get to see how your mind works.
Vipassana, which means “seeing things as
they are”, is a style of meditation that
requires intense sitting and diving into the
mind. Observing what it does to you.
It’s completely free and there are centers all
over the world. A retreat takes ten days. You
will learn more in those ten days about your
mind and your body than you can
learn in six months of college.
THE JAMES
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y x
o
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alternative
x
STUDY WHATEVER IT IS YOU
ARE INTERESTED IN.
GET IN THE GAME.
If you are interested in
something, dive in.
Read books, try it out,
become somebody.
THE JAMES
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o
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alternative
x
BECOME A CONNECTOR,
MAKE THINGS HAPPEN
You might say, “Well don’t I have to
be already big in an industry to connect people”.
Your personal network has real value.
Networking does happen in college but
it is 1/10 the networking you can do on
your own.
Here is what you do: get someone who is an expert in a
field you are interested in to agree to give a talk. Let’s
say it’s about entrepreneurship. Get a law firm to
sponsor it and use Facebook to market the event. BAM!
You’ll meet a million people.
THE JAMES
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y x
o
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alternative
x
BECOME A PARTY
PLANNER
Sweet 16s, Bar Mitzvahs, Weddings. Figure out
all the people in your area that offer services
for parties. Then offer to organize events for
cheap. You can be cheaper than any other
planner out there because your personal
expenses are cheaper. And, again, the
networking you develop will be invaluable.
Not to mention: parties are fun!THE JAMES
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y x
o
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alternative
x
LEARN AND MASTER A
FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Include a trip at the six month mark so you
will see if you are really learning it. I took
French for five years in high school and
college. I cannot speak to you one word of
French.
The way to learn a language is to
intensely study it 5–7 hours a day
and then go to that country and
speak it. And you will learn it.
THE JAMES
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y x
o
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alternative
x
Are charities wasting too much
money on salaries? Do research;
write an article, do a blog, a
documentary, expose the problem.
GRAB WHATEVER IT IS
THAT IS BUGGING YOU,
BOTHERING YOU
UPSETTING YOU,
SOLVE THE PROBLEM
o
o
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y x
o
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alternative
xMake a blog, syndicate it, write about every
piece of content you can about your passion.
BECOME A PERSONALITY
o
This teaches you how to build a website. How to
do research in the real world (as opposed to
research about Oliver Cromwell or whatever you
are studying in college), how to distribute your
ideas, how to become a better
writer and communicator, etc
THE JAMES
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y x
o
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alternative
x
WRITE AND PITCH YOUR
OWN TV SHOW
o
Every day come up with 10 ideas for TV
shows and how you would shoot them.
Before you finish your first year of
doing this you will have at least
several good ideas you can go ahead
and shoot.
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o
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alternative
x
GO TO MOTIVATIONAL
SEMINARS
o
You don’t have to spend $5,000 to
attend a Tony Robbins seminar but you can spend much
less and get just as much value from any number of
speakers who have been successful in life and now
want to transmit that success to you.
That’s valuable information they will be imparting.
Imagine year learning from these mentors. Do your
research, make sure they are good, put in the time to
ensure the message is one that resonates with you and
that the teachers have integrity, and
then go for it. Learn.
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o
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alternative
xPLAY!
o
You are off school and
18 for crying out loud!
Go canoeing, hiking,
anything!
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alternative
xYou are beautiful no matter who you are
or what you look like. Learn the fashion
industry. Work in it. Intern in it. Pose for it.
Wear a bracelet and have those pictures
appear in a pamphlet. There’s nothing
wrong with trying.
BECOME A MODEL OF
WHATEVER YOUR SIZE IS
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y x
o
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alternative
xNo matter what people say, if you want to
do a tech startup, go out to San Francisco,
go to the tech meetups, learn who the
movers and shakers are, learn how to
code, and start a business.
GO TO SAN FRANCISCO AND
MINGLE WITH SILICON VALLEY
Your networking ability there
is 1,000 times what it would be
in Kansas City
y x
o
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alternative
xYou want history? You don’t need to spend
$200,000 in college learning it. Go to
HISTORY. Go to all the places. Learn the
lessons learned on those very spots. Think
about them. Study them. You will survive on
your wits. You will become more of a world
citizen than any young person stuck on a
3 square-mile college campus
in the middle of nowhere.
VISIT ALL THE ARCHITECTURAL
HISTORIC SITES OF EUROPE
THE JAMES
ALTUCHER
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y x
o
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alternative
x
Thousands of spiritual seekers a year hike
this trail in Spain. Paulo Coehlo has
written books about it. Many people have
said it has changed their lives. Before you
rush head first into the crushing world of
materialism give yourself a chance to
experience what a spiritual quest might
look like.
BACKPACK EL CAMINO THE
SANTIAGO – THE WAY OF
ST. JAMES
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alternative
xSimilar reasons as above. But you
learn how to survive on your own, in
the woods, without a soul in sight.
You may never get this chance again
to confront your fears, your sense
of self-worth, and your loneliness.
HIKE THE
APPALACHIAN TRAIL
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y x
o
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alternative
xMake your own list of alternatives
that really resonate with you. This is
my list of what I think will work for
young people. Add to it.
And email me at altucher@gmail.com
and give me more alternatives.
MAKE YOUR OWN LIST
OF ALTERNATIVES
THE JAMES
ALTUCHER
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y x
o
Every week I study a new virtual mentor. Right now I’m
studying the life of Howard Hughes. I’ve also been studying
the life of Gandhi. These are people who changed the world
Who created things. People who mastered
the fields they found themselves in.
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alternative
xI still do this. A few weeks ago I watched
every Woody Allen movie. I read his books.
I read every interview he did. I wrote a blog
post: Nine things I learned from Woody Allen.
Because I spend so much time trying to get to the essence of
his work and art, my efforts were appreciated and the
article proved to be enormously profitable.
a virtual mentor
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o
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alternative
xThis might seem like a joke. You’re
only 18. But run for city council. Or run
for mayor. Become familiar with all the
issues in your town.
RUN FOR OFFICE
This will teach you how to speak. Again,
how to come up with ideas. How to
communicate them. How to allocate
resources. How the political
power system works.
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o
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alternative
xUse kickstarter, for instance, to raise the money.
Make a difference. By the way, who are you raising
funds from? Rich people. Successful people. People
you can learn from. People you can later ask advice
from. People who will remember you because they
will say, “this is an 18 year old who cared”.
Raise funds for a cause
you feel strong about
Guess what? There are not that many
18 year olds who care. Now you can
be one of the few.
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o
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alternative
xIf you don’t want to watch a movie
every day read one book a week that
you and one of your parents pick and
discuss it at the end of the week.
WATCH A MOVIE
A DAY FOR A YEAR
Movies are about life. They are about pain.
They are often about the troubles of
adulthood. What a better education then to
watch these movies and discuss them with
an adult who has maybe been
through some of these issues.
THE JAMES
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y x
o
Give yourself a chance. Give your
parents a chance. At least spend a year
trying the above.alternatives or one of
your design. Maybe spend two, or even
three. Heck, maybe spend the rest of
your life doing one of the above.
o
I’m sure if you do that you will make the
world a better place. And when that
happens, everyone who goes to college will
benefit from the smart choices you made.
Get the brand new book,
plus 1o more critical ones
that can help your kids
make millions.
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James Altucher: 40 Alternatives To College

  • 2. y x o x y Kids at 18 have no idea what they want to do in life. The world is a very big place. It’s bigger than five classes a day on philosophy or chemical engineering. ?
  • 3. y x o Colleges have made use of the myth that you can’t get a job unless you have a college education. = x x
  • 4. y x o s3 3 So young people feel a rush to get that college out of the way so they can get a job and “begin” their adult lives. 3 3 x
  • 5. y x o College costs have risen 1,000% in the past 30 years while healthcare has risen 700% and inflation has risen “only” 300%. $
  • 6. y x o Right now student loan debt is greater than homeowner debt & credit card debt in this country. That’s a lot of debt.
  • 7. y x o Whereas previously we’ve created generations of innovators and creators, now we are creating a generation of young people mired down in hopeless debt. When will they get to live life? o
  • 8. y x o TWith college: A) You learn very little that you use in real life. B) You are so burdened by debt that you can’t use your new-found knowledge to create real freedom and joy for yourself. C) A young person can use their energy in many other ways than just college.
  • 9. y x o So, in lieu of college, here are: I could’ve made this list 100 alternatives long. But I think you should come up with alternatives as well. There’s lots of ways to get experience, learn skills, make money, avoid debt, find happiness, avoid sadness, and deal with the fear that you aren’t accomplishing something simply because you didn’t choose the too-easy path of going to college at the age of 18. & 40 alternatives &V V
  • 11. y x o THE JAMES ALTUCHER SHOW 1 alternative xThis is the college of the streets. And when you have to eat what you kill, you learn extremely fast. START A BUSINESSy You learn how to come up with ideas that will be accepted by other people. Most kids graduate college with an atrophied idea muscle. Starting a business forces you to exercise that muscle every day.
  • 12. y x o THE JAMES ALTUCHER SHOW 2 alternative xYou will meet other foreigners traveling. You will learn what poverty is. You will learn the value of how to stretch a dollar. TRAVEL THE WORLDy You will often be in situations where you need to learn how to survive despite the odds being against you. You will learn you aren’t the center of the universe. V
  • 13. y x o THE JAMES ALTUCHER SHOW 3 alternative xCREATE ART Creation doesn’t happen from inspiration. It happens from perspiration, discipline, and passion. Creativity doesn’t come from God. It’s a muscle that you need to learn to build. Why not build it while your brain is still creating new neurons at a breathtaking rate than learning it when you are older (and for many people, too late). Spend a year learning how to paint. Or how to play a musical instrument. Make a band and tour with it. Or write 5 novels. Learn to discipline yourself to create.
  • 14. y x o THE JAMES ALTUCHER SHOW 4 alternative x MAKE PEOPLE LAUGH This will teach you how to write. How to communicate. How to sell yourself. How to deal with people who hate you. How to deal with the psychology of failure on a daily basis. And, of course, how to make people laugh. Spend a year learning how to do standup-comedy in front of people.
  • 15. y x o THE JAMES ALTUCHER SHOW 5 alternative x WRITE A BOOK Write a novel about what you are doing instead of going to college. You’ll learn how to observe people. Writing is a meditation on life. You’ll live each day, interpret it, and write it.
  • 16. y x o THE JAMES ALTUCHER SHOW 6 alternative x WORK IN CHARITY If you do any of these items for a year, two years, maybe ten, then maybe go to college? Why not? It’s your life. What is going to serve you better in life: taking French Literature 101 or spending a year delivering meals to senior citizens with Alzheimers, or curing malaria in Africa.
  • 17. y x o THE JAMES ALTUCHER SHOW 7 alternative x MASTER A GAME Once you master one game, it teaches you “how to master” in general. This is an incredibly useful skill to learn. Particularly if you can do it for cheap. A chessboard and some chess books cost a lot less than a college education. Mastering a game builds discipline, lets you socialize with other people of all ages and backgrounds but who have similar passions, and helps you to develop the instincts of a killer without having to kill anyone.
  • 18. y x o THE JAMES ALTUCHER SHOW 8 alternative x MASTER A SPORT Probably even better than mastering a game because it’s the same as all of the above but you also get in shape.
  • 19. y x o THE JAMES ALTUCHER SHOW 9 alternative x WANT TO BE A DOCTOR? So before you sign up for ten years of hell and a million in debt do this: Volunteer at a hospital, or at a morgue, get in touch with your element, see what they do, how they work, you may find doctors don’t quite know as much as you thought they did, you may find you don’t like being vomited on. Don’t you need a degree? Maybe.
  • 20. y x o THE JAMES ALTUCHER SHOW 10 alternative x WANT TO BE A Lawyer? Work as a paralegal, do it for free for a year, see what really goes on in the law firm. Watch those lawyers working 80 hours a week, sleeping in the office. See the first year associates come in with their huge debts to pay only to find themselves in caucus rooms full of boxes with boring documents that they have to highlight for at least a year or two. See if you want that.
  • 21. y x o THE JAMES ALTUCHER SHOW 11 alternative x Do aNYTHING YOU WANT FOR ONE YEAR. take a break. Lower your expectations about what you need to accomplish so quickly. In the past 100 years lifespans have more than doubled. There’s no rush at the age of 18 to dive into five more years of stress. Take a break. It’s when you lower your expectations that the full range of possibilities becomes open to you. Try it and see what happens, what passions fall your way.
  • 22. y x o 12 alternative xGO TO UNCOLLEGE.ORG Take courses in things you are interested in. The web is an amazing thing. They didn’t have it when I began college. But there are sites like uncollege.org where you can see a full list of courses being offered online by universities from all over the world. From Stanford to MIT to random courses on just about any topic. THE JAMES ALTUCHER SHOW
  • 23. y x o What am I grateful for today? What spiritual practice did I do today? 13 alternative x DO THE DAILY PRACTICE FOR A YEAR and see where it takes you The basic idea is to kick start your health, your idea muscle, your creativity, your motivations, & your spiritual life Exercise How Many Hours Did You Sleep? What Did You Eat Today? PHYSICAL What Negative People Did you ignore? What People Did you Connect? What positive people did you bring into your life? Emotional Idea List (with functionality so people can track ideas) What Did You Read Today? (not counting media) MENTAL SPIRITUAL THE JAMES ALTUCHER SHOW
  • 24. y x o 14 alternative xTAKE A JOB You’ll learn how to work. You’ll learn about customer satisfaction. You’ll be forced to deal with people who are not like you (and you might not even like). These are skills not taught in college and many people learn them too late in life THE JAMES ALTUCHER SHOW
  • 25. y x o 15 alternative x WRITE A SCRIPT FOR A MOVIE Go ahead, try it. You won’t be able to do it later. Watch a bunch of horror movies and then write a script for one. Get Syd Field’s book on writing screenplays. It might be a crazy idea. When you are 40! But it’s certainly not a crazy idea right now. THE JAMES ALTUCHER SHOW
  • 26. y x o 16 alternative x DIRECT A DOCUMENTARY ON SOMETHING YOU ARE INTERESTE in For instance, do you like baseball? Track down everyone who has caught the baseballs of record-breaking hits: Babe Ruth’s homerun record, Hank Aaron, Derek Jeter’s hitting record, etc. I’m making this up off the top of my head. I hate baseball. But a documentary like this has a nice arc: with each segment, for instance: what made Ruth such a success, or Aaron, or whoever. Why was the baseball so coveted? Follow its rise in price over the years and see who owns it now and why. THE JAMES ALTUCHER SHOW
  • 27. y x o 17 alternative x AUDITION IN BROADWAY FOR A WHOLE YEAR And you never know, you could be a star! See what it takes, how you can do it. Acting is not a bad skill to learn no matter where your life takes you. And you will build friendships and contacts from all walks of life. THE JAMES ALTUCHER SHOW
  • 28. y x o 18 alternative x VOLUNTEER GARDENING AROUND YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD You will learn about real estate, about gardens and plants. Shovel snow in the winter. You will learn about your community. THE JAMES ALTUCHER SHOW
  • 29. y x o 19 alternative x BECOME A REAL ESTATE AGENT See if you have what it takes to sell things. You will learn marketing, sales, interior design, the basics of architecture, and again you never know who you can meet in the process of this that could catapult your career in a completely different direction. THE JAMES ALTUCHER SHOW
  • 30. y x o 20 alternative xTAKE UP YOGA Yoga is a way of life that cleanses the body. It’s about nutrition. It’s about being honest. It’s about meditation. It’s about being kind to people. And, getting back to the physical, you will get into BRUTAL shape. Is that such a bad thing to do for a year than spending $50,000 going to a school. THE JAMES ALTUCHER SHOW
  • 31. y x o 21 alternative x GO TO 4 VIPASSANA MEDITATION RETREATS WITHIN ONE YEAR They are completely free and brutal. Get to see how your mind works. Vipassana, which means “seeing things as they are”, is a style of meditation that requires intense sitting and diving into the mind. Observing what it does to you. It’s completely free and there are centers all over the world. A retreat takes ten days. You will learn more in those ten days about your mind and your body than you can learn in six months of college. THE JAMES ALTUCHER SHOW
  • 32. y x o 22 alternative x STUDY WHATEVER IT IS YOU ARE INTERESTED IN. GET IN THE GAME. If you are interested in something, dive in. Read books, try it out, become somebody. THE JAMES ALTUCHER SHOW
  • 33. y x o 23 alternative x BECOME A CONNECTOR, MAKE THINGS HAPPEN You might say, “Well don’t I have to be already big in an industry to connect people”. Your personal network has real value. Networking does happen in college but it is 1/10 the networking you can do on your own. Here is what you do: get someone who is an expert in a field you are interested in to agree to give a talk. Let’s say it’s about entrepreneurship. Get a law firm to sponsor it and use Facebook to market the event. BAM! You’ll meet a million people. THE JAMES ALTUCHER SHOW
  • 34. y x o 24 alternative x BECOME A PARTY PLANNER Sweet 16s, Bar Mitzvahs, Weddings. Figure out all the people in your area that offer services for parties. Then offer to organize events for cheap. You can be cheaper than any other planner out there because your personal expenses are cheaper. And, again, the networking you develop will be invaluable. Not to mention: parties are fun!THE JAMES ALTUCHER SHOW
  • 35. y x o 25 alternative x LEARN AND MASTER A FOREIGN LANGUAGE Include a trip at the six month mark so you will see if you are really learning it. I took French for five years in high school and college. I cannot speak to you one word of French. The way to learn a language is to intensely study it 5–7 hours a day and then go to that country and speak it. And you will learn it. THE JAMES ALTUCHER SHOW
  • 36. y x o 26 alternative x Are charities wasting too much money on salaries? Do research; write an article, do a blog, a documentary, expose the problem. GRAB WHATEVER IT IS THAT IS BUGGING YOU, BOTHERING YOU UPSETTING YOU, SOLVE THE PROBLEM o o THE JAMES ALTUCHER SHOW
  • 37. y x o 27 alternative xMake a blog, syndicate it, write about every piece of content you can about your passion. BECOME A PERSONALITY o This teaches you how to build a website. How to do research in the real world (as opposed to research about Oliver Cromwell or whatever you are studying in college), how to distribute your ideas, how to become a better writer and communicator, etc THE JAMES ALTUCHER SHOW
  • 38. y x o 28 alternative x WRITE AND PITCH YOUR OWN TV SHOW o Every day come up with 10 ideas for TV shows and how you would shoot them. Before you finish your first year of doing this you will have at least several good ideas you can go ahead and shoot. THE JAMES ALTUCHER SHOW
  • 39. y x o 29 alternative x GO TO MOTIVATIONAL SEMINARS o You don’t have to spend $5,000 to attend a Tony Robbins seminar but you can spend much less and get just as much value from any number of speakers who have been successful in life and now want to transmit that success to you. That’s valuable information they will be imparting. Imagine year learning from these mentors. Do your research, make sure they are good, put in the time to ensure the message is one that resonates with you and that the teachers have integrity, and then go for it. Learn. THE JAMES ALTUCHER SHOW
  • 40. y x o 30 alternative xPLAY! o You are off school and 18 for crying out loud! Go canoeing, hiking, anything! THE JAMES ALTUCHER SHOW
  • 41. y x o 31 alternative xYou are beautiful no matter who you are or what you look like. Learn the fashion industry. Work in it. Intern in it. Pose for it. Wear a bracelet and have those pictures appear in a pamphlet. There’s nothing wrong with trying. BECOME A MODEL OF WHATEVER YOUR SIZE IS THE JAMES ALTUCHER SHOW
  • 42. y x o THE JAMES ALTUCHER SHOW 32 alternative xNo matter what people say, if you want to do a tech startup, go out to San Francisco, go to the tech meetups, learn who the movers and shakers are, learn how to code, and start a business. GO TO SAN FRANCISCO AND MINGLE WITH SILICON VALLEY Your networking ability there is 1,000 times what it would be in Kansas City
  • 43. y x o 33 alternative xYou want history? You don’t need to spend $200,000 in college learning it. Go to HISTORY. Go to all the places. Learn the lessons learned on those very spots. Think about them. Study them. You will survive on your wits. You will become more of a world citizen than any young person stuck on a 3 square-mile college campus in the middle of nowhere. VISIT ALL THE ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIC SITES OF EUROPE THE JAMES ALTUCHER SHOW
  • 44. y x o 34 alternative x Thousands of spiritual seekers a year hike this trail in Spain. Paulo Coehlo has written books about it. Many people have said it has changed their lives. Before you rush head first into the crushing world of materialism give yourself a chance to experience what a spiritual quest might look like. BACKPACK EL CAMINO THE SANTIAGO – THE WAY OF ST. JAMES THE JAMES ALTUCHER SHOW
  • 45. y x o 35 alternative xSimilar reasons as above. But you learn how to survive on your own, in the woods, without a soul in sight. You may never get this chance again to confront your fears, your sense of self-worth, and your loneliness. HIKE THE APPALACHIAN TRAIL THE JAMES ALTUCHER SHOW
  • 46. y x o 36 alternative xMake your own list of alternatives that really resonate with you. This is my list of what I think will work for young people. Add to it. And email me at altucher@gmail.com and give me more alternatives. MAKE YOUR OWN LIST OF ALTERNATIVES THE JAMES ALTUCHER SHOW
  • 47. y x o Every week I study a new virtual mentor. Right now I’m studying the life of Howard Hughes. I’ve also been studying the life of Gandhi. These are people who changed the world Who created things. People who mastered the fields they found themselves in. 37 alternative xI still do this. A few weeks ago I watched every Woody Allen movie. I read his books. I read every interview he did. I wrote a blog post: Nine things I learned from Woody Allen. Because I spend so much time trying to get to the essence of his work and art, my efforts were appreciated and the article proved to be enormously profitable. a virtual mentor THE JAMES ALTUCHER SHOW
  • 48. y x o 38 alternative xThis might seem like a joke. You’re only 18. But run for city council. Or run for mayor. Become familiar with all the issues in your town. RUN FOR OFFICE This will teach you how to speak. Again, how to come up with ideas. How to communicate them. How to allocate resources. How the political power system works. THE JAMES ALTUCHER SHOW
  • 49. y x o 39 alternative xUse kickstarter, for instance, to raise the money. Make a difference. By the way, who are you raising funds from? Rich people. Successful people. People you can learn from. People you can later ask advice from. People who will remember you because they will say, “this is an 18 year old who cared”. Raise funds for a cause you feel strong about Guess what? There are not that many 18 year olds who care. Now you can be one of the few. THE JAMES ALTUCHER SHOW
  • 50. y x o 40 alternative xIf you don’t want to watch a movie every day read one book a week that you and one of your parents pick and discuss it at the end of the week. WATCH A MOVIE A DAY FOR A YEAR Movies are about life. They are about pain. They are often about the troubles of adulthood. What a better education then to watch these movies and discuss them with an adult who has maybe been through some of these issues. THE JAMES ALTUCHER SHOW
  • 51. y x o Give yourself a chance. Give your parents a chance. At least spend a year trying the above.alternatives or one of your design. Maybe spend two, or even three. Heck, maybe spend the rest of your life doing one of the above. o I’m sure if you do that you will make the world a better place. And when that happens, everyone who goes to college will benefit from the smart choices you made.
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