Why Hard Work Beats Happiness Every Time | Ep 715

The Game with Alex Hormozi

Alex Hormozi

Entrepreneurship, Education, Business, How To

4.9 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

“Most people just don't know how to work that hard.” Today, Alex (@AlexHormozi) talks about the art of self-improvement and the importance of being useful, emphasizing on mastery through repetition and dedication to quality work. He provides a deep dive into the journey from seeking happiness to finding satisfaction in long-term goals, underscoring the role of hard work and the pursuit of usefulness for individual growth and success.

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:

(0:56) - Redefining the term “happiness”

(3:33) - The art of mastery through repetition

(6:13) - The philosophy of work: input, output, and mastery

(9:20) - Achieving mastery: the long road to excellence

(15:41) - The pursuit of goals: writing as a case study

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0:00.0	If you're doing work or you feel like you're not as good at something,
0:03.8	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?
0:08.6	Because every skill is like this, is that there's a period we have to do a lot of something.
0:12.4	And if you don't know what it is is then you're not going to get better.
0:19.0	Welcome to the game where we talk about how to get more customers, how to make more per customer, and how to keep them longer,
0:23.2	and the many failures and lessons we have learned along the way.
0:25.7	I hope you enjoy and subscribe.
0:27.3	The nice thing with being useful is that in order to be useful you have to be useful to other people
0:35.8	like no one can be useful in their own if be useful to other people so there's a service
0:40.4	element but there's also a self-improvement element, which is to be useful to other people,
0:44.7	you need to improve yourself.
0:46.2	And so that's why I think being useful has been probably my day-to-day goal of what I need to do.
0:52.3	And that served me well.
0:53.4	Not saying anyone should or should,
0:54.6	they can do whatever they want.
0:55.5	But for me, that's helped me.
0:57.0	I mean, this is a Tony Robbins scope.
0:58.0	He said, if you stay in your head, you're dead.
0:59.9	And because it rhymes, it's true.
1:01.6	But for real though, like when I was 19 the reason I said
1:03.7	fuck happiness is like I realized that I was in this cycle this loop of
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