Find Something Worth Suffering For | Ep 950
3/5/202626 min
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The idea of "following your passion" often misleads entrepreneurs into thinking they should only do what they love. In today’s episode, Alex Hormozi breaks down this myth and explains how passion is about finding something meaningful enough to endure the hardships that come with it. From grinding through sleepless nights to tackling a plateaued business, Alex emphasizes that all life paths come with challenges. Success and failure are on the same road. The difference is the willingness to keep going, even when it hurts. Find something worth suffering for and embrace the pain because it’s the price of progress.
In this episode:
00:00 The true definition of passion
07:00 Reframing life experiences to embrace bad things
09:20 Be passionate about why and how you do what you do
16:05 Embracing suffering as the cost for personal growth
17:33 Lessons from Mexico and sleeping on the gym floor
23:35 The secret to enduring suffering and achieving success
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Transcript preview
First 90 secondsAlex Hormozi· Host0:00
People want to follow their passion, but don't even know what it actually means. So the root of the word, passio, is Latin for suffering. So it's not about doing what you love. It's about finding something that you love enough that it's worth suffering for. And so pick something worth suffering for. And what's interesting about this is that the first usage of the word passion came from Passion of Christ, which was literally Jesus Christ's crucifixion story. And so it's interesting that this has been bastardized into following your passion means doing what you love. And the reason I'm making this video is because I had a young man stop me, say that he quit his job, went all in on entrepreneurship, but then he didn't like what his life looked like. Um, and so he asked me what he should do. And the reality was that he quit because he thought that he was doing something wrong because he wasn't loving every second of it. And so here's the big problem. Your passion only exists in the vague, not in the specific. So even if you start a business around what you believe to be your passion, ninety-five percent of what you do every day, if you're successful, will not be your passion. You'll just have very brief moments where you'll do that specific thing, if at all, and then assuming that that thing never changes, which it will. And so this kind of like passion window is very short-lived, or it's only possible as an employee where you actually stick to doing the same thing every single day within kind of a larger machine, or a solopreneur that chooses not to scale. Not a business owner unless you choose to love business ownership as the thing you're, quote, passionate about, which means that you're willing to suffer for it, right?