33 Brutal Truths To Stop Wasting Your Potential - Alex Hormozi - #1117
6/29/20264 hr 9 min
Alex Hormozi is a founder, investor and an author.
Alex’s X Account has been one of my favourite sources of insights over the last few years. Today we get to go through some of his best lessons about life, human behaviour, psychology, business and resilience again. And as always this is so, so good.
Expect to learn how to stop doing the wrong “hard things”, the 3-step process for winning, how to break decision paralysis, why you shouldn’t listen to the opinions of ordinary people, the not cool way to get rich, how to reverse engineer success, Alex’s message to his son, how to keep working after the excitement dies, the 3 behaviours of respected leaders and much much more…
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First 90 secondsChris Williamson· Host0:00
Welcome back, man. Another speed running podcasting booty call [laughs] That's, that's the hope. Do more hard things every day is a great mantra, but it should be less about ice baths and more about making that decision you've been putting off for three months.
Alex Hormozi· Guest0:16
[sighs] Yeah. Um, I think that there's been a big misconception around hard stuff, which is just that, um, like running a marathon necessarily means that you can have a hard conversation with your wife, um, by saying like, "Oh, I do hard things." Um, but those hard things don't necessarily generalize. [chuckles] And so I think domain specificity is much more, uh, narrow unless you decide to generalize to an identity label of like, "I am the type of person who can do hard things because I ran this marathon or because I do these ice baths, and then as a result, I can then generalize that label to other behaviors." Um, but if you can make that label and identify with it, then you don't need to run the marathon in order to do the hard thing. You just need the label.
Chris Williamson· Host0:56
What are the hard things that people should be focusing on more? What, what are the step change function, hard thing capacity skills that people should focus on more?
Alex Hormozi· Guest1:05
[sighs] I think it's being cognizant of what, what other... what outside forces are influencing your behavior in a way that is aversive or against your goals. And so if you're like, "I want to start a business, but I am afraid of what other people will say," then it means that we are allowing those other