Turning Adversity in Victory | Ep 696

The Game with Alex Hormozi

Alex Hormozi

Entrepreneurship, Education, Business, How To

4.9 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

"If you want the things that everyone else doesn't have, you have to act in ways that everyone else doesn't act in." Today, Alex (@AlexHormozi) discusses the idea of overcoming difficult situations and becoming a champion rather than letting those situations make you weaker. He emphasizes the importance of the story that we choose to tell ourselves and its impact on our ability to overcome adversity.

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:

(0:44) - The mindset of champions

(2:09) - When personal issues impact work

(3:38) - The power of perception

(9:09) - Unconditional love and the harsh reality of conditions

(10:30) - Crafting your story

(12:49) - Using adversity as fuel to win

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(This episode is a re-run. Original airdate was on August 13, 2019)

Transcript

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0:00.0	No one cares.
0:01.9	cares.
0:02.7	And so if you accept that and realize that your excuse of what happened
0:06.3	is irrelevant to the outcome that you want,
0:08.8	then you can kind of in some way get peace
0:10.4	about the fact that cool, what story story are people going to tell about this
0:14.6	situation.
0:17.2	The wealthiest people in the world see business as a game. This podcast the
0:21.0	game is my attempt at documenting the lessons I've learned on my way to building acquisition.com into a billion dollar portfolio.
0:26.0	My hope is that you use the lessons to grow your business and maybe someday soon partner with us to get to $100 million and beyond.
0:31.0	I hope you share and enjoy. What's going on on everyone today? I had, like, this is kind of a culmination of like three or four things that I'm just kind of putting together and I think it's going to turn out well.
0:44.0	But it kind of stemmed from just a few different,
0:49.0	you know, small minor situations that kind of bubbled
0:51.0	into this overarching concept, which is like, if shit happens, do you overcome shit or do you become shit?
0:57.5	And what I mean by that is that, like a lot of times there's a saying that like bad things happen in threes.
1:02.0	I don't know if you've ever heard that, bad things happen in threes. I don't if you've ever heard that bad things
1:03.5	happen in threes. I actually think there's a lot of truth to the same and I
1:07.2	don't think it's because of some karmic force or some universal force of
1:10.2	threes that sends negative things your way but because people become shit when
1:14.2	ships happens to them and so the if you if you look at like champions and so like I like
1:20.3	using that term because I just love the word champion, but champions are unreasonable in how they bounce back from failure and how they bounce back from shit happening, right?
1:31.0	Adrian Peterson, Torres-A-C-L, which is an end, you know, a career-ending injury for just about everyone
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