Unlock the Power of Boring | Ep 140

The Game with Alex Hormozi

Alex Hormozi

Education, Entrepreneurship, Business, How To

4.9 • 4.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

"Consistency matters so much more than intensity any day of the week.” Today, Alex (@AlexHormozi) emphasizes the importance of doing boring work consistently to achieve success. He explains that simple tactics, such as making compelling ads and consistently working leads, are often overlooked but yield significant results when done consistently over time.

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:

(0:45) Boring work is powerful because consistency is underrated for success.

(3:06) Grit: how to deal with failure and stick things out.

(5:43) Unlearn old characteristics to start new business.

(8:03) Consistency matters more than intensity any day of the week.

(11:41) Discounting simple tactics causes failure; focus on fundamentals.

(14:16) Doing boring work yields unboring results.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, love that you're listening to the podcast. If you ever want to have the video version
0:04.8	of this, which usually has more effects, more visuals, more graphs, you know, drawn out stuff,
0:09.2	sometimes it can help hit the brain centers in different ways. You can check on my YouTube channel.
0:13.3	It's absolutely free. Go check that out if that's what you are into. And if not, keep enjoying the show.
0:18.4	Happy Thursday, everyone. Hope you are having an amazing second half of your week post-hump day.
0:24.8	I wanted to make a quick vid slash podcast for you. I'm planning an unlock the power of boring,
0:31.4	do the boring work, whatever it is. We recently changed out one of our core tenants at gym launch
0:36.4	from Go the Extra Mile to do the boring work. And I think that's been an alignment with what our own
0:41.2	team was talking about. And I kind of, and I just finished the presentation that we're releasing
0:45.4	later today to the whole team. But even recently, I've had a couple of messages coming in from
0:49.9	different gym owners. And they were like, man, it really is just about doing the boring work.
0:54.4	And so I kind of wanted to highlight it in a couple different instances, different
0:57.2	different lights or examples that I think would shed just eliminated for some people. So,
1:03.4	I think that the reason that doing the boring work is one of the most powerful things to unlocking
1:07.2	growth is because the underlying principle behind it is the most underrated aspect of success,
1:13.3	right, which is consistency. There's nothing sexy about it, right? Yet we recognize it in other
1:20.2	people. We value it in other people. But just doing things consistently doesn't yield consistent
1:26.2	results. It actually yields parabolic results because of the effect of compounding, right? And so
1:32.4	when you see like comp, was it, Einstein said the eighth wonder of the world is compounding
1:36.5	interest, right? Because if you gain 10% year over year over year and you start with $100,
1:40.8	you end up like a billionaire like Warren Buffett, right? Because doing something like if you look
1:45.1	at any one of his years, it's never crazy. It's just good. He just never doesn't have those good
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