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🗓️ 4 April 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Avoiding discomfort creates more discomfort. Today, Leila (@LeilaHormozi) shares the relationship between discomfort and entrepreneurship and how entrepreneurs need to befriend uncomfortable emotions and accept them instead of trying to solve them.
Welcome to Build where we talk about the lessons I have learned in scaling big businesses, gaining millions in sales, and helping our portfolio companies do the same. Buckle up, because we’re creating an unshakeable business.
Timestamps:
(1:51) - Entrepreneurs create chaos in business to avoid internal chaos.
(4:15) - It's normal to have internal chaos.
(6:02) - In order to succeed, 50% of business life will suck.
(7:14) - It's okay to feel negative emotions and feel like crap.
(7:40) - Ask yourself if you're solving a problem or creating more.
(8:53) - Horrible thoughts and feelings are normal & experienced by all.
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0:00.0 | We spend all this time trying to avoid these things that are absolutely normal and experienced by everybody. |
0:06.8 | And I think that if everyone knew that, they wouldn't spend so much time doing that. |
0:10.6 | And in the consequence of doing those things, often harm their businesses. |
0:16.1 | How do you create an unshakable business? |
0:18.3 | I cross $100 million in net worth by the age of 28. |
0:21.8 | Now I'm growing Acquisition.com into a billion dollar portfolio. In this podcast, I share the lessons |
0:26.4 | I've learned in scaling big businesses and helping our portfolio companies do the same. |
0:30.7 | Buckle up and let's build. What is up today? What I want to talk about is the one relationship |
0:37.4 | that unlocked $100 million |
0:38.9 | in revenue for me. I know that you're probably thinking, oh, she's going to talk about her |
0:42.4 | relationship with Alex, but that is actually not what I'm going to talk about today. So what I want |
0:46.4 | to talk about today is something that I've observed in myself for a long time. And it's something |
0:51.4 | that I can now see more and more in others, particularly entrepreneurs who |
0:55.3 | are starting out in the journey. And what that relationship is, is it's their relationship with |
1:00.6 | discomfort. And let me play it out like this, right? I have never been someone who has a run |
1:07.7 | away from a challenge. And I think that most people who start businesses don't do that. |
1:12.6 | I think that maybe they did, but then they actually learn to seek out challenges. |
1:17.5 | But what I see happens and what happened to me is that we create a ton of chaos within our |
1:23.6 | lives through the business because what actually happens is that we are comfortable |
1:28.8 | with being extremely busy and with doing all of the time, but we are not comfortable being |
1:34.8 | still and thinking and taking more time. And so the discomfort actually kind of switches. |
1:41.5 | And the reason that I have come to believe that I did this to myself, and I've |
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