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The Game with Alex Hormozi

Why I Chose to Disappoint My Dad | Ep 414

The Game with Alex Hormozi

Alex Hormozi

Business, Education, Entrepreneurship, How To

4.94.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Are you living the way you want or by someone else's rules? Today, Alex (@AlexHormozi) talks about something more personal. He dives into his relationship with his father, the impact this had on his entrepreneurship journey, and how he managed to break free from the expectations set on him, ultimately making a name for himself.

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:

(0:22) - The constant need to seek validation felt like death

(3:59) - Legacy can leave heavy expectations

(6:56) - Father not supportive the things Alex wanted to do for himself

(10:22) - "I would prefer to not be alive if this is what my life will be."

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Real quick, you guys already know that I don't run any ads on this and I don't sell anything.

0:04.6

And so the only ask that I can ever have are you guys that you help me spread the words

0:07.8

we can have more entrepreneurs, make more money, feed their families, make better products,

0:12.0

and have better experiences for their employees and customers.

0:15.1

And the only way we do that is if you can rate and review and share this podcast.

0:19.6

So the single thing that I have to do is you can just leave a review, take you 10 seconds

0:22.9

or one type of the thumb, it would mean the absolute world to me, and more importantly,

0:26.2

it may change the world of someone else.

0:28.2

I had to die to my father or die to myself and I realized that I would rather die to him.

0:31.6

Pretty much ended up happening.

0:33.2

And so my fear is relatively justified.

0:36.0

Welcome to the game where we talk about how to get more customers, how to make more

0:38.9

customers, how to keep them longer, and the many failures and lessons we have learned

0:42.1

along the way. I hope you enjoy and subscribe.

0:45.7

Well, I usually ask my guess, how did you get this job?

0:48.0

So I was a management consultant right out of college. I did space cyber intelligence

0:54.5

for the military, which was sounds much cooler than it really was, but I had a top secret

0:58.5

clearance. It sounded really good at dinner parties and just about only that.

1:03.6

And one day I looked out for my balcony because I had a really nice place because I could

1:07.2

afford it at the time. And I was like, is this it? And I was in my young 20s.

1:11.2

At that point, I had done everything that I think I was supposed to do.

1:13.9

So I did well in school. I was president of all the clubs, graduated in three years,

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