This is Why You’re Stressed… | Ep 656

The Game with Alex Hormozi

Alex Hormozi

Entrepreneurship, Education, Business, How To

4.9 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

“This is what hard feels like… and that’s okay.” Today, Alex (@AlexHormozi) explores the mental struggles faced by entrepreneurs and offers strategies to combat anxiety and sadness. He highlights the importance of reframing reality, making consistent decisions, and navigating complex human relationships in business, while emphasizing the continuous acquisition of knowledge for better decision-making and a better life.

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:

(1:14) - Dealing with sadness

(2:47) - Discovering options and gaining knowledge

(4:35) - Understanding the impact of emotions

(8:44) - The role of stress in life

(15:10) - The importance of defining terms

(19:16) - Impact of expectations on emotions

(21:50) - The role of challenges in business

(24:28) - The importance of knowledge in business

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0:00.0	I think one of the scariest things is feeling out of control.
0:03.2	That is always like the most frightening to me because I like to know why I'm
0:06.8	feeling a certain way.
0:07.6	That's why defining the terms was so important to me
0:09.7	so that I could know how to solve it.
0:11.1	The wealthiest people in the world see business as a game.
0:16.0	This podcast, The Game, is my attempt at documenting the lessons I've learned on my way to building
0:19.5	acquisition.com into a billion dollar portfolio.
0:22.0	My hope is that you use the lessons to
0:23.2	grow your business and maybe someday soon partner with us to get to a
0:25.4	hundred million dollars and beyond. I hope you share and enjoy.
0:29.4	If I struggle with something, it usually means that I don't understand it well enough.
0:36.7	And so I spend a lot of time trying to define terms in ways that I can actually do something about them.
0:42.1	And so sadness comes from a lack of options,
0:44.8	which is why it feels like hopelessness. Anxiety comes from many options, but a lack of
0:49.6	priorities, which is why it feels like paralysis looking everywhere but moving nowhere and so you
0:54.9	solve sadness with knowledge and anxiety with a decision and so if you don't know
1:01.1	what to do you have to find out what to do. If you have too many things to do you have to make a commitment by deciding of all the paths this is the one I will choose and so decision solve anxiety, knowledge solve sadness.
1:14.0	I don't genuinely, I don't experience sadness a ton, and so if I feel it, I'm like, this is weird, why do I feel this?
1:20.0	And so trying to get to the root cause of like why do I feel sadness right now? I feel sadness because I don't know what to do. And so if I don't know what to do it means that like I feel like I have no action that I can take and as somebody who is
1:32.7	predisposed to taking action pretty well that's not a common feeling for me but
1:37.1	then it was like okay well then I have to figure out what actions I have available to
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