Negative Emotional Motivation | Ep 684

The Game with Alex Hormozi

Alex Hormozi

Entrepreneurship, Education, Business, How To

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🗓️ 13 March 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

"Right thing for the wrong reasons rather than the wrong things for the right reason.” Today, Alex (@AlexHormozi) discusses the importance of envy as a driver for success and self-improvement. He identifies envy and jealousy as distinct emotions, with the former being a desire for something someone else has while the latter is the fear of losing something one already possesses to someone else. Alex argues that understanding and acknowledging envy can be empowering and beneficial towards achieving business and personal goals.

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Timestamps:

(0:36) - Understanding envy and jealousy

(1:36) - Personal experiences with envy and jealousy

(2:31) - The adaptive nature of envy

(3:22) - The power of naming emotions

(4:23) - The impact of motivations on actions

(6:02) - The importance of emotion in decision making

(6:57) - The freedom of accepting desires

(7:57) - Embracing emotions and desires

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(This episode is a re-run. Original airdate was on December 4, 2020)

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0:00.0	If in a group, one person or one being, one animal, whatever, brings more to the table,
0:06.4	you are now envious of that person and what it does is it elevates the rest of the group to go and
0:11.9	achieve the same, which is good for the collective.
0:17.2	The wealthiest people in the world see business as a game.
0:19.6	This podcast the game is my attempt at documenting the lessons I've learned on my way to building
0:23.0	acquisition.com into a billion dollar portfolio. My hope is that you use the
0:26.3	lessons to grow your business and maybe someday soon partner with us to get to
0:28.9	$100 million and beyond. I hope you share and enjoy. What I want to talk to you about today was a conversation that I had with someone and we were
0:40.5	having conversation about motivation and I figured I would share it with you because I think it was of a lot of value.
0:45.8	And so I was sharing that recently, I had delineated between the feelings of envy and jealousy and how important it has been for me to be
0:58.1	able to first name those emotions so that I could then analyze how I was feeling about them and the actions that I would subsequently take as a result of them.
1:07.0	And so I want to at least first cover those and then I'll tell you about our conversation.
1:11.0	And so envy is having the desire for something that someone else has that you do not have.
1:21.1	So you're lacking and someone else has something that you want and do not have. So you are lacking and someone else has something that you want and do not have.
1:24.6	That is envy. Jealousy is when you have a threat that someone is going to take something that you have that they do not have.
1:35.0	All right?
1:36.0	And so for example, I'll give you an example of each.
1:38.0	So envy, I may be envious of a friend of mine, so I was actually talking to a good friend of mine who owns a big
1:44.3	weight loss company and right now he's doing better than I am and now I am envious of
1:49.1	his success I am I can feel it I'm envious I got off the phone and I was like I am envious of you right on the flip side if someone
1:56.4	comes to talk to Lala right it is the fact that they pose the threat of taking attention or her attention that I think should
2:06.1	continuously belong to me that I would feel jealous over.
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