Brutally Honest Advice to My Younger Poorer Self | Ep 629

The Game with Alex Hormozi

Alex Hormozi

Entrepreneurship, Education, Business, How To

4.9 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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"Winners focus on winning, losers focus on winners.” Today, Alex (@AlexHormozi) shares advice to his younger self on the importance of continuous hard work and the realization that what was once considered hard work is only a fraction of one's true capabilities. He emphasizes the need to embrace uncertainty, delay immediate rewards, and prioritize work-life balance on a longer time horizon for entrepreneurial success.

Welcome to The Game w/Alex Hormozi, hosted by entrepreneur, founder, investor, author, public speaker, and content creator Alex Hormozi. On this podcast you’ll hear how to get more customers, make more profit per customer, how to keep them longer, and the many failures and lessons Alex has learned on his path from $100M to $1B in net worth.

Timestamps:

(0:42) - What hard work actually looks like

(3:44) - Uncertainty is the reality of entrepreneurship

(9:53) - No need for weekends, meaningful work.

(12:36) - Success is the ultimate revenge.

(15:39) - Genuine support and personal growth.

(17:48) - Ignore hate, embrace envy and jealousy.

(19:27) - Sadness from limited options, anxiety from lack of priorities.

(21:41) - Fear of judgment, but they don't matter.

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0:00.0	The fact that you don't know if it's going to work is exactly what makes it worth doing.
0:04.4	It's why entrepreneurship isn't for the faint of heart.
0:06.6	You have to embrace uncertainty.
0:08.1	What makes entrepreneurship isn't the work itself, it's actually just not knowing if the work will work.
0:12.4	We're afraid of wasted effort.
0:14.1	But if it makes you better, then no effort is wasted.
0:19.9	Welcome to the game where we talk about how to sell more stuff to more people in more ways and build
0:23.6	businesses worth owning. I'm trying to build a billion dollar thing with acquisition.
0:27.0	Come. I always wish Bessos, Musk and Buffett had documented their journey, so I'm doing it for the rest of us.
0:31.8	Please share and enjoy.
0:35.0	This is my most brutally honest advice to my younger self.
0:38.0	You can beat 99% of people simply by continuing to work without needing your immediate reward.
0:42.0	This bit is advice to my younger self on how I'd... by continuing to work without needing your immediate reward.
0:42.6	This bit is advice to my younger self on how I work harder.
0:46.5	You're going to lose sleep, you'll doubt whether it'll work, you'll stress to make ends meet,
0:50.0	you won't finish your to-do list, you'll wonder if you made the right call and have no way to know for years.
0:54.6	But that's what hard feels like.
0:55.9	The other great reason for working harder is that the harder you work, the more you realize what you used to think was hard work
1:00.0	isn't even close to what you're capable of.
1:05.5	Because if you want to know what the most dangerous money-making combo in the world, it's work ethic and time.
1:07.5	Because once you realize just how much more work it takes to get from good to great,
1:11.0	you realize you can only be great at a few things and you're
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