James Patterson

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661 appearances 4 recordings 4 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 5 Jun

James Patterson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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10% Happier with Dan Harris · Are You Living a Good Life? | James Patterson and Patrick Leddin · 29 Apr 2026 podcast

Whoosh.

And after about an hour of this, it occurred to me, I was going into this place to work that I didn't want to be at.

I loved writing books and was starting to get successful about it.

My life was going in the wrong direction.

I needed to be on the other side of the highway.

I needed to be going in the direction of those cars that were going at a nice speed and heading to the sunshine.

And soon after that, I told the people at Thompson that I would give them time, but I was leaving that business.

And that was a very positive disruption for me.

And the talk that I gave, it was called The Power of Disruption.

And I went through the various things in my business life and then the disruptions in terms of my publishing career.

And one of the things I said to the kids that morning was that for some of you, you've been on a treadmill to get on another treadmill to get on another treadmill.

And maybe you like that.

But if you don't, maybe you need to disrupt your life.

Maybe you shouldn't be here taking these courses and et cetera.

This isn't my language, and I don't know where it comes from.

And I think it's more useful for people in their 20s or in college than it is for me at my age.

But the language is, my time here is short.

What can I do most beautifully?

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