The Choose Yourself Guide to Wealth

By: James Altucher

Narrated by: James Altucher

Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins

Publisher's Summary

This is a bold book by James Altucher. He not only gives you a new map for the new financial landscape but he also has skin in the game. This is the first financial book in which the author reveals how he makes his own money.

We are living in an epic period of change, danger, and opportunity. The economy is crashing and booming every few years. People are getting fired and replaced by computers and Chinese workers. The stock market crashes with regularity. Every fix from the government makes things worse. The old world has been demolished, and people are desperate for answers.

James Altucher's The Choose Yourself Guide to Wealth contains those answers. This is the field guide to the new world we live in. You can play by the old rules and get left behind, or you can use these new ideas and become wealthy. This is not a book for the faint of heart. Listen at your own risk, because sometimes the truth is hard to take. But for those who are ready to hear, James provides an updated map of the new territory for generating wealth and freedom. This book is the eye opener of the century. It is the guide to building, keeping, and investing your money and breaking free from the chains of rusted, old thinking.

©2015 James Altucher (P)2015 James Altucher

This Audiobook is not an Audiobook

I purchased this Audiobook because I expected it to be just that; a book in audio format. Unfortunately it was not that at all. The author chose to "read" the book himself, but instead formatted it more like a podcast - going off on rabbit-trails and then skipping entire sections. No, I am not kidding... he actually skipped reading an entire chapter and advised the listener to buy the actual book for that part. I'm sorry... I thought that's what I did when I got this audioBOOK.

This is not unabridged, and it's full of rambling.

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

This is labeled as unabridged, and I expected the full content of the book. Instead what I got was a rambling conversation including his wife Claudia. If I wanted to listen to James Altucher's podcast, then I would have done that instead of buying this book.

How could the performance have been better?

Read the actual book to the audience. Nothing pissed me off faster than glossing over a section and telling me I need to read the book for the details. I bought this audio book for those details.

I was let down

So after James last book I was excited. It was refreshing and I enjoyed it. This book was not what I expected. Good points but more rambling and less straight wealth talk. I also did not get into it and the two way conversations made it like a podcast not a book. Need to have something actionable and not stories.

Not a real audiobook

There is some good stuff buried here. But it’s not an audiobook. It’s a podcast about an book on audible.

COMMENTARY...NOT THE AUDIO-BOOK

The author barely reads the book. It is more of a commentary on his book chapter by chapter w/ a few skips. I would have appreciated the commentary if it was titled as a "COMMENTARY" and not as a book. Aside from that the book is rather good...

Honest, easy to listen too, and flows nicely!!

I enjoyed his honesty & openess! I agree, you need to exercise your idea muscles.

Loved it!

Thank you James. Fabulous and uplifting as always. Lots of reminders and inspirations abound in this fun and inspiring audio book. Your honesty is amazingly refreshing :)

put a bullet in my ear

I liked reading the book, but this guy is terrible to listen to, and he's not reading the book, he's rambling on in and out of conversation with his piggy backer wife about the book. I'll stick to reading this one. Would have been great if it had been read by someone who is not James Altucher.

“Free is something you choose everyday”

This reading by the author was very conversational and I expect the written version had more content. That being said, once I got into the Altucher’s tone, I gained a lot of wisdom and perspective. I love the “idea practice” and I’ve already noticed that I’m thinking more clearly as a result. This book was different from most self development books as it didn’t just rephrase universal principles or give obvious advice, but actually offered a very outside the box and honest perspective of the changing world, in a mostly objective way. The quotes from this book felt authentic and useful and I found myself sharing ideas with good reception. I didn’t expect a step by step plan to become wealthy and really liked the abstract-ness that some reviewers mentioned, as I could apply it to my own situation and customize advice. Thanks for the helpful ideas James

Will listen to many more times.

Great practical knowledge and wisdom from James and others. Great concepts for you to think about and implement in your life.

Ideas, but not deeply explored ones

Altucher—as he himself is keen to illustrate frequently—has a rich and varied past; it’s such a shame therefore that every topic he touches on is handled with such brevity. Breezing over significant subjects (in his own, particularly monotone style) ranging from leadership to investment’s, it feels as though we the reader are at the receiving end of one of his many money spinning ideas (which of course we are). There are some good messages in the book, but examples are poorly illustrated and important subject are hurried. I’m left feeling that there was something life-changing he wanted to say, but simply can’t get it out.

Good fun good advice

Good fun good advice, unusual format for an audio book, like a conversation with a maverick

More than just a re-hash of the first book...

I really liked Choose Yourself (original book) but was sceptical that the wealth guide would give me anything new. I am glad to say I was wrong! Read by James in the same upbeat, anecdotal style, the Choose Yourself Guide to Wealth has a lot of counter-cultural wisdom in it and is detailed enough to be quite practical; for example the Q&A bit about setting up a business. As a teacher and parent, I see my students and my own kids travelling down the same (now broken) path as their parents, as nobody seems to brave enough to tell them that they need to go a different way. Kudos to you James for being brave and shining a light on a new but exciting path to success and (let's hope) happiness.

Easy to listen to with many valuable lessons

Great advise and ideas especially to write done ideas every day to excerise the idea muscle.

Some good principles to think about when it comes to Wealth

Some good principles to think about when it comes to Wealth.
Some debatable. In overall, another great book from James Altucher.
Not sure about the combination of James and Claudia, which at points felt unrehearsed.
Other than that, great. Keep doing this James!