Brutally Honest Advice For Hard Days | Ep 905

The Game with Alex Hormozi

Alex Hormozi

Entrepreneurship, Education, Business, How To

4.9 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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In this episode, Alex (@AlexHormozi) delivers brutally honest advice, unpacking some harsh truths about leadership, team dynamics, and the real reason your business isn’t scaling.

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0:00.0	The single greatest skill you can develop is the ability to stay in a great mood in the absence of things to be in a great mood about.
0:07.0	I've had some of the hardest days of my life this year, so maybe you feel the same.
0:11.0	And so in this video, I want to share a four-part framework that has helped me move forward even when life sucks.
0:19.0	If you can be in a bad mood for no reason, then you might as well be in a bad mood for no reason then you might as well be in a good mood for no reason
0:23.7	too and so one of the things that's been helpful for me is just actually recognizing the math of hard days
0:29.3	and so if you think about you having a hundred days right let's just say that you know last hundred
0:33.9	days of your life well the top 10 percent of those days you're going to have 10 days that are smile face days and then you might have you know, last hundred days of your life. Well, the top 10% of those days,
0:37.6	you're gonna have 10 days that are smile face days.
0:40.7	And then you might have, you know,
0:41.7	kind of the middle 80, that's gonna be kind of neutral days, right?
0:45.3	And then you're gonna have your bottom 10% days.
0:47.3	Now, this is just normal because of a standard distribution
0:51.1	of how days work.
0:52.3	I think the most important skill that you could have is being
0:55.8	able to reframe reality. And I say this because I had a very good friend of mine this year say
1:03.8	something to me. And it was, it was really powerful. And it's been top of mind since he said it.
1:08.5	And he said, well, I'll tell you what he actually said he said you're
1:14.3	alex fucking hormosi you can get away with whatever you want as long as you frame it right
1:20.5	and i really thought a lot about that and i've i've brought that perspective to a of the conversations, a lot of difficult things I've had to go through this.
1:31.1	It reminds me of a quote from Victor Frankel who wrote the book, A Man Search for Meeting, which he wrote while he was in the concentration cancer during the Holocaust and he survived.
1:38.9	And or he wrote about that time period.
1:40.8	And one of the things that he said is he who has a why to live for can bear
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