Emotional Work | Ep 624

The Game with Alex Hormozi

Alex Hormozi

Entrepreneurship, Education, Business, How To

4.9 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

(This episode is a re-run. Original publishing date was on June 02, 2020)

It’s time to see the good in the bad. Today, Alex (@AlexHormozi) talks about how to balance the feeling of optimism and the facts of reality, and how to confront this inner conflict by rewiring your brain to view bad news as an opportunity to grow.

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:

(2:28) - Optimism helps confront harsh realities.

(4:01) - Thrive in new challenges, embrace change.

(5:02) - Persistently optimistic, confront brutal facts.

(7:54) - Innovation and customer communication.

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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 and so
0:04.8	the only ask that I can ever have are you guys that you help me spread the word so we can
0:08.0	not more entrepreneurs, make more money, feed their families, make better products and have better
0:12.8	experiences for their employees and customers. And the only way we do that is if you can rate and
0:17.3	review and share this podcast. So the single thing that I have to do is you can just leave a review,
0:21.9	let's take you 10 seconds or one type of the thumb, it would mean the absolute world to me,
0:25.2	and more importantly it may change the world of someone else.
0:28.2	And so if you have somebody on your team who is constantly talking negative,
0:32.2	it's difficult for them to even see anything positive and they end up sabotaging themselves,
0:36.5	but you yourself have to think or at least for me, you have to catch your own thoughts around
0:41.2	that stuff. The wealthiest people in the world see business as a game. This podcast,
0:47.1	the game is my attempt at documenting the lessons I've learned on my way to building acquisition.com
0:50.9	into a billion dollar portfolio. My hope is that you use the lessons to bring your business and
0:54.4	maybe someday soon partner with us to get to a hundred million dollars and beyond. I hope you share
0:57.8	and enjoy. One of the things that came up from my sales guys on our side for Jim Lodge was that
1:04.8	at this current period of time, there are there are more gyms that are getting on the phone and
1:09.3	they describe it as being reluctant to confront reality. And wanted to make something about that,
1:15.3	which is in the book, good to great or great leadership, I think it was one of those books.
1:19.8	The author talks about Jim Collins, talks about some of the character traits of good leaders,
1:25.2	and he talks about one dichotomy, which are two two kind of things that you have to balance
1:29.9	back and forth, which is maintaining almost unreasonable optimism for the future while also
1:35.8	confronting the brutal facts of reality. And I think that as we develop as entrepreneurs,
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