Why I Work | Ep 351
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Alex Hormozi
4.9 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2021
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
The hard work itself is the goal. Today, Alex (@AlexHormozi) talks about the journey he went through when he wasn’t doing anything for almost a year and what got him out of that rut in his life.
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:
(2:33) - Wither without challenge. Assess "Why do I work?"
(4:20) - Hard work worth doing. Focus on the present.
(7:07) - Seek opportunity to work hard. Make work the goal.
(9:30) - Praise ourselves based on hard work. Empowerment in work.
(13:41) - Negative motivation is not true "work".
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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 | The only ask that I can ever have are you guys that you help me spread the words. |
| 0:07.8 | We can not more entrepreneurs, make more money, feed their families, |
| 0:10.9 | make better products, and have better experiences for their employees and customers. |
| 0:14.9 | The only way we do that is if you can rate and review and share this podcast. |
| 0:19.4 | The single thing that I have to do is leave review, |
| 0:22.0 | take you 10 seconds or one type of the thumb, |
| 0:24.0 | it would mean the absolute world to me, and more importantly, |
| 0:26.0 | it may change the world of someone else. |
| 0:28.3 | At this point in my life, I have enough passive investments that I make |
| 0:31.8 | multiple million dollars a year without doing much. |
| 0:35.4 | Welcome to the game where we talk about how to get more customers, |
| 0:37.7 | how to make more customers, how to keep them longer, |
| 0:39.7 | and the many failures and lessons we have learned along the way. |
| 0:42.2 | I hope you enjoy and subscribe. |
| 0:45.4 | And over the last nine months, I struggled moderately with this fact. |
| 0:50.2 | And it was because I had completely weird myself from the portfolio of businesses that we own, |
| 0:55.3 | which do about 85 million dollars a year in revenue. |
| 0:58.4 | And no, I have nothing to sell you. |
| 1:00.5 | What I want to talk about today is kind of what that nine to 12-month journey was for me, |
| 1:05.4 | kind of living in pseudo retirement, |
| 1:07.4 | and the single thing that has gotten me out of it, |
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