Modern Wisdom ft. Alex Hormozi

Alex Hormozi says

If you had to travel a mile or less you would walk it, but if you had to go more than a mile you would drive it, so paradoxically you would go two miles quicker than one mile. People get stuck in region beta, a zone of comfortable complacency, like the guy who stays in his just okay job because his boss isn't too much of a dick but the pay isn't that good. It's the same with the acceptable relationship where they're not fired up but not really in love either, or the person who stays in a crappy apartment with mold on the ceiling. Looking back at the most painful instances in his life, every single one created a disproportionate gain. The most painful thing early on was quitting his job and leaving his dad, which created his first business and the gyms.

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Identify one comfortable but stagnant area of your life and take one concrete action today to disrupt it rather than waiting.

Alex Hormozi says

Hormozi spent five years building a chain of gyms with six locations. After that he sold five of them and shut one down. The partner he had in the next venture ended up taking the money, disappearing, filing bankruptcy, and sending it to his girlfriend in Sweden. Because of that experience he was able to make more in the next 12 months. He is the output of the work, not the outcome. The work works on you more than you work on it, so if you want to be the best in the world at something, you do the work and the work works on you.

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For your current biggest effort, write down the version of yourself the work will build regardless of the outcome, and focus on that.

Alex Hormozi says

Sadness comes from a lack of perceived options, which feels like hopelessness, and is really just ignorance, which is solvable. Anxiety is having many options and few priorities. Patience is figuring out what to do in the meantime. What used to take days of anxiety became just making a list of everything, finding the most important thing, ignoring the rest, turning days into minutes.

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Next time you feel sad or anxious, name it as a lack of options or a lack of priorities and take the matching action.

Alex Hormozi says

You don't gain confidence by shouting affirmations in the mirror but by giving yourself a stack of undeniable proof that you are who you say you are, by outworking your self doubt. He has a big presentation coming up with 500,000 people registered for the book launch. He keeps revising, adding whatever should be there visually, until there is not much else he can do to it. His standard is to be able to step off stage, look in the mirror, and say he did everything he could.

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Before your next high-stakes task, define what full preparation looks like and keep working until nothing else is left to do.