Doing the Boring Work vs. Chasing Shiny Objects | Ep 456

The Game with Alex Hormozi

Alex Hormozi

Entrepreneurship, Education, Business, How To

4.9 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Stay focused on the goal. Leave no room for distractions. Today, Alex (@AlexHormozi) talks about why you should avoid opportunities that are potential distractions to your growth, not needing a fancy play to be successful, and stop thinking you are going to outcompete other people.

Welcome to The Game Podcast where we talk about how to get more customers, make more profit per customer, and keep them longer, and the many failures and lessons we have learned along the way to $100M in sales. We've got roll-up-your-sleeves kind of hustle with a little bit of cleverness and a lot of heart.

Timestamps:

(1:30) - Just like in The Matrix, there are so many “women in the red dress” that are distractions & new opportunities. You have to learn how to say no to these the more you accelerate in your career, no matter how attractive they are

(3:55) - Success comes down to doing the obvious thing for an uncommonly long period of time without convincing yourself, you're smarter than you are.

(7:36) - You have to switch from new to better because the innovation already happened when you got the product market fit.

(10:46) - People allocate tons of attention, and tons of time to new strategies, new ideas, etc., rather than making the obvious truth.

(14:31) - You don't need to have any fancy play to be successful. You just have to be willing to get consistent yardage.

(16:30) - It is arrogant to believe that you are going to outcompete other people who are fully focused on one thing when you are split on five.

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0:00.0	Real quick, you guys already know that I don't run any ads on this and I don't sell anything.
0:04.6	The only ask that I can ever have are you guys that you help me spread the words.
0:07.8	We can have more entrepreneurs, make more money, feed their families,
0:10.9	make better products, and have better experiences for their employees and customers.
0:14.9	The only way we do that is if you can rate and review and share this podcast.
0:19.4	The single thing that I have to do is leave review.
0:21.9	I'll take you 10 seconds or one type of the thumb.
0:23.9	It would mean the absolute world to me.
0:25.2	More importantly, it may change the world of someone else.
0:28.2	Business is not hard in that it is not complicated.
0:31.5	It is hard because people cannot stay focused on the same thing for a long period of time.
0:35.6	It's also because once people make a certain amount of money,
0:38.3	if they only did it for the income, they're trying to find the next and next to make a more income
0:42.3	rather than the mission of the business.
0:45.2	The wealthiest people in the world see business as a game.
0:47.5	This podcast, the game, is my attempt at documenting the lessons I've learned on my way to building
0:51.1	acquisition.com into a billion dollar portfolio. My hope is that you use the lessons to grow your
0:55.0	business and maybe someday soon partner with us to get to a hundred million dollars from beyond.
0:58.1	I hope you share and enjoy.
1:00.7	Growing businesses is hard because it's different than people expected to be.
1:04.4	And I continue to get more nuance and more detailed in my understanding of growing businesses,
1:09.2	the more businesses I've grown.
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