Debunking Success: Alcohol, Laziness & Social Media Addiction Isn't Holding You Back | Alex Hormozi PT 1
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🗓️ 5 September 2023
⏱️ 87 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You can drink and do drugs and watch porn. |
| 0:02.5 | If you still do the... |
| 0:03.7 | That's all that matters. |
| 0:05.2 | I want to do the formula and then live my life how I want to live. |
| 0:09.4 | Each of us gets to make a daily choice to play the victim or play the game. |
| 0:13.8 | And if you're going to play the game, I suggest you play to win. |
| 0:17.3 | And like all games, life has a set of physics. |
| 0:20.2 | There are things that work and things that |
| 0:21.9 | don't work. Your job is to experiment until you find the vein of effectiveness. To that end, |
| 0:28.2 | I bring you Alex Hormozzi, the man with a proven system for identifying destructive habits |
| 0:33.7 | and turning success into a repeatable process. |
| 0:42.3 | You are ridiculously good at writing instruction manuals for how to make money. |
| 0:45.8 | Literally, you are singular in that way. |
| 0:51.1 | But if people think poorly or they do dumb things, they are never going to make progress. |
| 0:55.3 | So what advice do you have for people that are wasting time on things like porn, social media, or even just a friend group that is going nowhere fast? |
| 1:01.6 | If you, it's my belief that if you could control every one of the variables externally to an |
| 1:06.7 | organism, you can control its behavior. So one of my favorite quotes from B.F. Skinner, who was a behavior psychologist from way back in the day, was the old saying is, you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make a drink. He said, well, if you bleed it out enough and you starve it and you leave it in the sun and you put the water right in front of its mouth, he said, I can veritably guarantee that I can make it drink. And so if you were to think about yourself as that horse, then it's like, okay, well, what is the equivalent of the bloodletting, the dehydration, the starving that you can put yourself into, get the behavior you want? So starving has a negative connotation, but we can also starve out the negative things in your life. Like you can starve the alcohol, you can starve the porn, |
| 1:44.7 | you can starve the friends. And I think the easiest way to do that is to get out of the |
| 1:49.1 | environment you're in. Because like I'm sure you heard about the, I think this was an atomic habits. |
| 1:54.3 | In Vietnam, I think it was like 10% of troops or something were taking heroin when they were |
| 2:00.5 | over there in the 70s. And they thought there was going to be this massive problem when they came back to the States. But when they came back to the States, almost no one continued the heroin habit. And so going from Vietnam where you're doing heroin to the U.S., where you're not doing, taking heroin, had a 90% success rate, whereas the inverse is true of recovery centers in the United |
| 2:18.4 | States today. People go there and 90% of them relapse when they go back home. And so the |
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