Your work works on you more than you work on it... How your biggest challenges build your greatest strengths. Ryan McCarthy this one is for you. And why I started my first gym in Southern California | Ep 49
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Alex Hormozi
4.9 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2018
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
"If I'm gonna be the best, then I have to do it in the hardest place to go." Today, Alex (@AlexHormozi) discusses the benefits of working through hardships and how they can lead to building valuable skills and expertise. He emphasizes the importance of perseverance and the idea that all labor brings profit, even if it doesn't come in the form of immediate 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:
(0:52) - Hard work, experience enhance lead generation in tough markets.
(2:35) - Embrace hardship for strength and skill development.
(2:59) - Confronting challenges in tough markets leads to growth.
(4:23) - Overcoming hardships leads to success, skill development, growth.
(4:45) - Improve skills, breakthroughs will follow. Keep working, improving.
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on? |
| 0:02.0 | What did I say? Wednesday? Happy hump day. |
| 0:05.0 | I want to make a quick video. I won't be too long today, |
| 0:08.0 | but I was chatting with my good friend, |
| 0:11.0 | Ryan McCarthy, who is a gym lord extraordinary and I think that what I was talking |
| 0:16.8 | to him about is relevant for a lot of people in a lot of different spaces and it's |
| 0:21.9 | just worth really digging into for this one quick clip. |
| 0:25.4 | So, instead of video is your work works on you more than you work on it. |
| 0:31.3 | And so Ryan's in this really, really tough market. |
| 0:34.5 | So he's been trying to generate leads for ever, you know what I mean? |
| 0:39.6 | And like whenever he successfully is able to start generating leads, |
| 0:43.8 | it just shuts down, like almost immediately. |
| 0:46.6 | And so, you know, he messaged me and he's like, |
| 0:48.2 | dude, I'm not giving up. |
| 0:49.7 | And he's been doing this for a while. |
| 0:51.8 | He's, you know, taking the internet marketing courses he's you |
| 0:54.8 | know he's invested in himself in that in that degree and now he's running YouTube |
| 1:01.0 | ads he's running Instagram ads he's running all the different types of |
| 1:03.9 | placements on Facebook and he's like dude I'm just getting you know really frustrated |
| 1:08.4 | but I'm gonna keep powering through and the thing is is like what that it like that's an illustration of the |
| 1:14.0 | amount of skill that he's been able to develop because of a hardship and |
| 1:17.8 | sometimes when you're in it you don't realize it right and so like I titled it your work works on you more than you work on it, because despite the fact that he |
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