The Amount of Preparation You Need to be Exceptional | Ep 709

The Game with Alex Hormozi

Alex Hormozi

Entrepreneurship, Education, Business, How To

4.9 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

“The more you prepare for stuff, the more frequently you do it, the better you will get it preparing.” Today, Alex (@AlexHormozi) emphasizes the significance of thorough preparation as a key differentiator in achieving business success. Highlighting real-world examples, he underscores the need for a significant increase in both the quality and quantity of preparation to excel in tasks, overcome imposter syndrome, and improve overall performance and efficiency.

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:

(0:36) - Redefining preparation

(3:21) - Preparation in content creation

(5:55) - The power of preparation

(8:53) - Scaling with creative preparation in advertising

(12:29) - The philosophy of preparation

(17:00) - Practical tips for effective preparation

(25:51) - Resetting expectations and embracing preparation

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0:00.0	My entire goal of this podcast right now
0:02.6	is to reset your expectations
0:04.6	of the amount of preparation that it takes to be good.
0:07.2	People are like, why isn't it working for me?
0:09.4	It's not working for you because you're not working nearly
0:11.9	as what is required to get that level of output.
0:17.2	The wealthiest people in the world see business as a game.
0:19.4	This podcast, The Game, is my attempt at documenting the lessons I've learned on my way to building acquisition
0:23.6	and to a billion dollar portfolio. My hope is that you use the lessons to grow your business and
0:27.4	maybe someday soon, partner with us to get to a hundred million dollars and beyond.
0:30.0	I hope you share and enjoy. Today's topic is going to be preparation within the context of work and how most of you are under prepared and are thinking about it as though it's anxiety.
0:46.1	You think that you have imposter syndrome when the reality is you just haven't prepped nearly enough.
0:50.8	And so what I want to do today is actually reset your bar for what preparation
0:54.0	looks like for the highest achieving people that I know within different contexts.
0:57.3	So whether that's sales, that's marketing, content, whatever, customer success.
1:01.6	All of these contexts have different types of prep. There's two different ways to prep that I'll talk about and give you some tactics that you can use and maybe send to your team as well because hey if they prep more you'll make more a lot of people know the
1:14.1	the saying ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure well I think the same is
1:18.4	true in sales and customer success in marketing in making content.
1:23.4	Like an ounce of prep is worth a pound of posts, right?
1:26.8	And I've never heard that said, but I'm gonna coin it myself.
1:30.2	And so I want to share a couple of quick hitting quotes and then I'll get into like really tactical stuff that's really helped me make make the most of prep in the shortest period of time to make the most money.
1:39.0	So more important than the will to win is the will to prepare.
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