Controversial Truths You Need To Hear Pt.2 (on the Modern Wisdom Podcast) | Ep 676

The Game with Alex Hormozi

Alex Hormozi

Entrepreneurship, Education, Business, How To

4.9 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2024

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

“I would rather be somebody who has absolute power and have nothing to show for it.” Today, join Alex (@AlexHormozi) as he guests on the Modern Wisdom Podcast with Chris Williamson to talk about how to optimize productivity, the role failure plays, and how to eliminate a victim mindset. He further delves into the concept of the 'Zygonic Effect', aligning work with personal desires, defining 'learning' and 'intelligence', and warns against not evolving our strategies under similar conditions. This is part 2 of the interview.

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.

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Timestamps:

(1:15) - The double-edged sword of fame

(6:22) - The role of hatred in success

(13:23) - Self-love and holding yourself to a higher standard

(27:46) - The power of authenticity and originality

(41:34) - The power of positive mindset and self-belief

(48:59) - The struggles Alex faced in the beginning of his journey

(59:19) - The importance of doing boring work

(1:12:47) - The power of acceptance and moving on

(1:26:33) - The importance of learning and doing

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0:00.0	I think that most things are actually significantly easier than people think they are.
0:03.7	They just don't know how to try hard.
0:05.8	Because the harder that you try, the easier it gets.
0:08.8	And so it's like if you can just learn to love what trying hard feels like, then all of a sudden it becomes unreasonable that you can't win.
0:19.0	Welcome to the game where we talk about how to get more customers, how to make more per customer,
0:22.2	and how to keep them longer,
0:23.2	and the many failures and lessons we have learned along the way.
0:25.6	I hope you enjoy and subscribe.
0:27.6	Whenever I wanted to try and get myself back into the present, I used to have brain fog a lot in my 20s
0:35.3	Oh really and maybe not brain fog maybe just the clarity of my thoughts now is so much better than it used to be I don't
0:41.2	fucking know maybe it was just the drugs. I don't know. But one of the things I used to, I used to have this, I still have this
0:48.7	BMW sat on my drive with the perforated steering wheel and I remember that if I ran my thumbs across the
0:54.7	steering wheel and I really felt the perforation really felt it or I do it with a
0:59.0	leaf I'd pick a leaf up and I'd really feel the sensation of the leaf. I couldn't think about anything else.
1:05.2	You can only have one thought at one time. You cannot think two things, right?
1:08.8	You have a super computer inside of your head and it's got one megabyte of RAM.
1:12.6	Yeah, right.
1:13.6	So just think the one thought.
1:15.2	Okay, so this next one, me and you text each other pretty frequently about
1:20.1	we've seen this cool thing and someone's repurposed like one of the things that we've done which is cool and it makes me feel good that things that we've said or that you've said largely
1:27.1	Get repurposed
1:28.9	This is something that hadn't happened before which is you misquoted me
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