Throwback: Why Hard Work Beats Happiness Every Time | Ep 918

The Game with Alex Hormozi

Alex Hormozi

Entrepreneurship, Education, Business, How To

4.9 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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In this throwback episode, Alex (@AlexHormozi) dives into the trap of chasing happiness and explains why striving to be useful is a better goal. Drawing on personal experiences, he breaks down how confidence is built through reps, how mastery is forged through editing and effort, and why doing the hard work repeatedly is the most sustainable form of personal growth.

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0:00.0	If you're doing work or you feel like you're not as good at something, you have to figure out what the input output equation is.
0:05.8	You have to figure out, like, what's the thing that I have to do a lot of?
0:08.5	Because every skill is like this is that there's a period where you have to do a lot of something.
0:12.3	And if you don't know what it is, then you talk about how to get more customers, how to make more per customer,
0:22.2	and how to keep them longer, and the many failures and lessons we have learned along the way. I hope you
0:26.0	enjoy and subscribe. The nice thing with being useful is that in order to be useful, you have to be
0:34.8	useful to other people. Like, no one can be useful on their own. You have to be useful to other people. So there's a service element, but there's also a self-improvement
0:42.2	element, which is, to be useful to other people, you need to improve yourself. And so that's why I
0:46.9	think being useful has been probably my day-to-day goal of what I need to do. And that served me well. Not saying anyone should or should
0:54.5	they can do whatever they want. But for me, that's helped me. I mean, this is Tony Robbins quote.
0:58.0	We said, if you stay in your head, you're dead. And because it rhymes, it's true. But for real that,
1:02.1	like, when I was 19, the reason I said fuck happiness is like, I you analyze of like, does this make me happy? Does this pizza make me happy?
1:11.3	Does this class make me happy?
1:13.3	I mean, I quit pre-med because I thought biology didn't make me happy.
1:17.0	Now I'm very glad that I did because I like business a lot more now.
1:19.2	But like, that was the reason I did it.
1:20.7	I studied really hard.
1:21.5	I did well.
1:22.4	But I was like, this doesn't make me happy. Like, of course, it fucking doesn't make you happy. You suck at it. You're learning something. You're going to suck for a very long time. It's only when all these skills go together
1:30.1	that you'll be good at something and you'll actually be useful to society. Of course, you learning
1:33.7	the fucking chromosomes doesn't do anything. But it's because of what it shows a school that you're
1:39.0	willing to put up with so that you might be useful to society in the particular skill set.
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