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The Game with Alex Hormozi

Never Listen to Your Parents | Ep 336

The Game with Alex Hormozi

Alex Hormozi

How To, Entrepreneurship, Business, Education

4.94.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2021

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes, ignorance can be bliss. Today, Alex (@AlexHormozi) talks about why you shouldn’t listen to the advice of your parents or relatives. It might sound a bit controversial, but it’s not what you think...

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:

(0:54) - Close ones as critics. Failure makes it easier for them.

(2:08) - Not taking risks guarantees no success. They misunderstand risk.

(4:49) - Opposition from most people is safer most of the time.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey guys, real quick. So Layland, I are definitely working on our social media presence if you guys haven't noticed.

0:04.1

And we're just breaking now into linkedin. Alright, it's not as bad as I thought.

0:08.0

It's actually been pretty awesome so far and you guys have been really cool in there and people are sharing our stuff a lot.

0:12.2

So if we aren't connected on linkedin, go ahead and let's connect and let's rock and roll.

0:17.0

Why you never should listen to your parents at any age.

0:21.1

Welcome to the game where we talk about how to get more customers, how to make more

0:24.0

requests and how to keep them longer in the many failures and lessons we have learned along the way.

0:27.8

Hope you enjoy and subscribe.

0:30.7

In this video, I'm going to talk to you about why you never should listen to your parents at any age.

0:34.5

Hi, my name is Alex Ramozi. I own a portfolio of companies that is $85 million a year in revenue and I'm absolutely

0:39.2

nothing to sell you. I make this channel because a lot of people are broken. I don't want you to be one of them.

0:42.8

And so one of the things that happens, and this is at any age, like I know guys who are making millions of

0:46.4

millions of dollars a year and still, you know, are insecure about what their parents tell them about X, Y, and Z.

0:51.4

And so the reason I think this is interesting is that most people, unless your parents are

0:55.8

exorbitantly wealthy and have achieved everything that you wish to achieve, I don't think you should listen to your parents.

0:59.6

And so one of my first rules of life is never to listen to someone who's poorer than you or poor than you want to be.

1:04.8

All right, so that's two different, you know, caveats there because you might be younger and it's like,

1:07.6

okay, well, yeah, my parents have more money than me, but like, are they poorer than you want to be?

1:11.2

If so, then only listen to people who are wealthier than you want to be, right?

1:14.0

And the thing is is that they always will, and other people too, right? We'll always side on the side

1:20.9

of being less risky, right? And here's why, because when you naysay, right? It's kind of like when you're,

1:27.3

if someone's like, oh, I don't like your girlfriend, and the thing is is that if you date in general, right?

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