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The Game with Alex Hormozi
Alex Hormozi
4.9 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2018
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
“The reality is that if you give first, you're the one who always wins." Today, Alex (@AlexHormozi) discusses the importance of giving in interpersonal exchanges. He emphasizes that giving more than taking or matching can lead to success in personal and business relationships.
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:
(0:53) - Successful givers trust with caution.
(2:48) - Giving creates positive impressions.
(7:38) - Giving first gains influence and leverage.
(7:52) - Giving more leads to long-term success.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey what's going on everybody happy Sunday I'm just doing a little house walk |
| 0:05.9 | Some of you can come along with me kind of trying to change the the background for you so it doesn't get too |
| 0:10.0 | boring in my office but anyways I was reading a book this morning. I do a lot of reading on |
| 0:14.8 | Sundays and it was talking about how there are three types of people in the world from |
| 0:22.1 | a basis of giving an interpersonal exchange, which I thought was interesting. |
| 0:26.0 | They said there are takers, there are matchers, and there are givers. |
| 0:30.0 | And, you know, unsurprisingly, the people who were, |
| 0:37.3 | matches and takers were in the middle of the bell curve, |
| 0:41.6 | right, in terms of success and life and income, and the people who aren't either |
| 0:45.1 | side of the bell curve, as in the lowest people on the bell curve, and the highest people |
| 0:49.5 | on the bell curve, were givers. |
| 0:51.8 | And I thought that was really interesting and what delineated the people |
| 0:54.9 | who were successful givers at the top and the bottom was the degree to which they |
| 0:58.6 | trusted other people and so they asked people to of the ones who were self, you know, they identified as givers to rate on a scale from 1 to, or sorry, 0 to 10, how much they trusted other people. |
| 1:12.0 | And the givers who ranked eight |
| 1:16.4 | were the most financially successful. |
| 1:18.6 | If they did nine or ten, they trusted people too much. |
| 1:21.1 | They weren't using discernment. |
| 1:22.2 | They were most likely to be taking |
| 1:23.2 | advantage of from takers and matchers etc right now I read that and I put the book |
| 1:29.0 | down and I was thinking I was like man that's so interesting and so I wanted to give you a little example of what I've seen |
| 1:35.1 | even within our own group and kind of a couple examples that that that were |
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