Rejecting Expectations, Labels, and Trauma (on Iced Coffee Hour) | Ep 529

The Game with Alex Hormozi

Alex Hormozi

Entrepreneurship, Education, Business, How To

4.9 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

"Desire is a contract we make with ourselves to be unhappy until we get what we want." Today, join Alex (@AlexHormozi) as he guests on Iced Coffee Hour to talk about rejecting societal expectations, labels, and trauma. He also explores the concept of desire as a contract that leads to unhappiness until fulfilled and the importance of creating meaning in one's life without casting expectations, and touches on the role of language in shaping beliefs and the benefits of monitoring and controlling what we deem meaningful.

Welcome to The Game Podcast where we talk about how to get more customers, make more profit per customer, and keep them longer, and the many failures and lessons we have learned along the way to $100M in sales. We've got roll-up-your-sleeves kind of hustle with a little bit of cleverness and a lot of heart.

Watch the full interview on Iced Coffee Hour’s YouTube Channel!

Timestamps:

(0:44) - Desire is a contract for unhappiness until we get it

(5:43) - Language matters, how we say things is how we think

(9:49) - Nihilism, emotions, and cultural traumas

(14:39) - Control your responses, control your stimuli.

(17:40) - False binary of belief, it's about how hard you believe

(20:53) - We're given a token to enter the casino of life

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0:00.0	Moisturization real quick, if you are a business owner that has a big old business and wants to get to a much bigger business,
0:06.1	going to $50, $100,000 plus we would love to talk to you.
0:09.5	And if you like that or would like to hear more about it, go to acquisition.com and you can play anywhere on the page
0:14.3	and talk to one of our team and see if we can help you get there.
0:17.5	I feel like in the casino of life, you get tapped on the shoulder by the green reaper.
0:20.7	And he says, your time's up.
0:22.2	And then all your chips get pushed right back to the middle of the table.
0:24.5	And then you leave the casino empty-handed because it was a fake game, a fake rules that didn't matter.
0:30.5	Welcome to the game where we talk about how to sell more stuff to more people in more ways and build businesses worth owning.
0:35.5	I'm trying to build a billion dollar thing with acquisition.com.
0:38.2	I always wished pesos, musk and buffet had documented their journey, so I'm doing it for the rest of us.
0:42.4	Please share and enjoy.
0:44.7	Defs, it's a curve when we speak desires, right?
0:48.3	And so I love this statement.
0:50.0	Desires are a contract we make with ourselves to be unhappy until we get what we want.
0:53.5	And so whenever we state a desire, like I want this, I want this amount of money, I want whatever.
0:57.9	You literally sign a contract that says, like, I won't be unhappy until that happens, right?
1:01.9	And so like, I had this thing earlier on where I was like, I want to have meaning.
1:06.0	I want to have great meaning in my life.
1:07.4	And I was talking to a guy who made a lot more money than me.
1:09.4	And he was like, because I asked him, I said, how do you create a destroyer meaning in your work?
1:12.7	That was the question I asked him on a podcast.
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