19 Harsh Truths About Human Nature - Alex Hormozi - #610

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2023

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Alex Hormozi is a founder, investor and an author. Alex's Twitter has been one of my favourite sources of great insights over the last year. Today we get to go through some of my favourite lessons from him about life, human behaviour, psychology, business and resilience. This is really good. Expect to learn how your ego is keeping you poor, why you never need to care about what anyone else thinks of you, why having a life that sucks is actually a blessing, whether most easy opportunities are just distractions, how to conquer your tiny impulses, why you are built to deal with things being hard, how to beat anyone who ever copies you and much more... Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (00:50) The Advantage of Having Something to Lose (13:23) Changing Your Environment to Improve Your Life (19:07) Distractions Come Dressed as Easy Opportunities (30:33) Regretting the Opportunities Not Taken (34:30) Find Motivation in Difficulty (51:53) How to Take the First Steps to Success (57:50) How Alex Overcame a Difficult Upbringing (1:02:11) Balancing Success & Feeling Content (1:17:10) Finding What to Optimise For (1:22:29) Don’t Underestimate Your Opponent (1:27:33) More People Stay Poor From Their Ego than Get Rich Off Them (1:36:55) The Next Trends in Social Media (1:44:32) What’s Next for Alex Extra Stuff: Follow Alex on Twitter - https://twitter.com/AlexHormozi Follow Alex on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/hormozi/ Get my free Reading List of 100 books to read before you die → https://chriswillx.com/books/ To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom - Episodes You Might Enjoy: This Is How To Master Your Life - David Goggins - #577: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Goggins⁠⁠⁠ How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs - Dr Jordan Peterson - #712: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson⁠⁠⁠ The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain - Dr Andrew Huberman - #700: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Huberman⁠⁠ Get in touch. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everybody, welcome back to the show.
0:03.2	My guest today is Alex Hormosi.
0:05.1	He's a founder, investor, and an author.
0:08.4	Alex's Twitter has been one of my favorite sources of great insights over the last year.
0:13.3	Today we get to go through some of my favorite lessons from him about life, human behavior,
0:18.2	psychology, business, and resilience.
0:21.0	This is really good.
0:22.5	Expect to learn how your ego is keeping you poor, why you never need to care about what
0:27.5	anybody else thinks of you, why having a life that sucks is actually a blessing, whether
0:32.4	most easy opportunities are just distractions, how to conquer your tiny impulses, why you
0:37.8	are built to deal with things being hard, how to beat anybody who ever copies you, and
0:43.8	much more.
0:44.8	I find Alex absolutely fascinating.
0:46.6	I think that he has this really great blend between pithy, lovely philosophy, bro insight,
0:55.2	stuff, and real world applicability, so the strategy and execution coming together
1:00.8	to work very well.
1:01.8	There's so much great stuff in here.
1:03.4	I really, really hope that you enjoy this one.
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