How I Gamed The GMAT And Scored 20pts ABOVE Harvard's Midscore AND Gained 35lbs of Muscle & put 100lbs on My Bench in 6 Weeks: how you can use this process to get whatever goal you desire | Ep 104
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Alex Hormozi
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🗓️ 12 February 2019
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Even the smallest improvement can make a big difference. Today, Alex (@AlexHormozi) discusses how to achieve success in various areas, including gaining muscle and acing the GMAT. He stresses the importance of intense effort and the placebo effect and shares strategies for achieving goals.
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:
(1:50) - Achieving 740 on GMAT
(3:30) - Diminishing returns for training and test prep
(9:09) - Difference between maintaining and growing a business
(12:52) - Business growth and physiological change
(14:23) - Relationship between effort and achievement
(17:23) - Maximizing business growth through volume and efficiency
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| 0:00.0 | The Inspiration for today's podcast |
| 0:03.4 | video is a conversation I was having with Dr. Kashi |
| 0:06.7 | about a post that made in his group and |
| 0:08.9 | whether you aren't in his group, Dr. Kashi is awesome, he's |
| 0:12.2 | super PhD, brilliant world record |
| 0:14.8 | holder, all that stuff. And he was talking about how a lot of people |
| 0:19.9 | physiologically don't know the difference between maintenance and doing what they need to do to |
| 0:25.8 | massively gain muscle, right? And so he's like the difference between the stimulus necessary |
| 0:30.7 | in order to grow and adapt versus just maintain are dramatically |
| 0:37.1 | different and so like the amount of effort you need to put into |
| 0:39.8 | maintaining muscle is so much less than what you need to do to gain muscle that most |
| 0:45.0 | people see this huge gap. And so it got me thinking because the article that I |
| 0:49.5 | posted inside of the group was an article about how I gained 35 pounds in six weeks and how I put |
| 0:57.4 | 100 pounds on my bench in that same period. |
| 1:00.2 | And it was kind of by thinking through the framework that I want to share with you, |
| 1:04.0 | which is I use the exact same framework to game the GMAT at Harvard. |
| 1:09.5 | And so I wanted to get into Harvard at a certain point in my life for their |
| 1:13.2 | MBA program and so I took the GMAT and I think I got a six something on it |
| 1:18.8 | like the first time and I was like oh crap I don't like in there and like the average score to get in was |
| 1:24.0 | 7 20 and so I was like man how many get and that's like a 99% you know percentile in |
| 1:29.0 | order to do that I was like man what am I gonna do? And so the process is basically that I went through |
| 1:36.5 | was trying to figure out what is the input output ratio |
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