How To Move 10x Faster In Life - Alex Hormozi (4K)

Today, we're gonna go through as many of your lessons as we can-

Okay.

... in about three hours, and we're gonna see what we can get through. First one, "A friendly reminder that in three generations everyone who knew us will be dead, including the people whose opinions stopped you from doing what you wanted all along. Imagine that someone you know achieves every dream and hits every goal they have. Years later, they get old and die. Two years after that. How much do you care? About as much as everyone else will if you accomplish your goals and dreams. Do it for you."

(sighs) So I think about death all the time because it's- it's probably the central theme. It's probably the thing that I think the most about, and I think that influences how I see time, and also how I think- how it- how it influences agency, like, what actions I'm willing to take despite the judgment of others. And so, a lot of times, and it might be because I have more insecurity than everyone, that I think, like, "Man, I wanna do this thing," and then I hear all these other voices of reasons why I shouldn't do it or why somebody else will say, like, "That's bad," or "You're bad," or, like, "That's wrong," whatever. And so I think I've had to come up with a lot of these devices to get around my own insecurities to take action despite those insecurities. And the biggest one that I think about is that it doesn't matter whether I achieve all of my goals or I don't achieve all of the goals. In three generations, I'll be forgotten, and the only people who were naysaying a- a- against me will also be dead. And so then it's like, just do it for me, and then when I wake up every day, there's only one voice I have to listen to.

But that means that you need to be able to work out what to do from first principles. You now no longer have societal norms or assistants or role models or archetypes or expectations, and that's also difficult in a different way.

(sighs) I think that the more you flex whatever that muscle is, of like independent thinking, the more it becomes the default way that you think. And then everyone else's actions just start looking more and more insane to you.

What like? What's an example of that that you can think of?

I mean, shoot, just the most basic ones of, like, living the life that you don't want, not wearing what you wanna wear, not dating who you wanna date, um, not living where you wanna live. Like, you're living at home, and you wanna move, and your parents say no, and you don't make the move. Or you're dating a girl because y- she's socially accepted, you know, by your friend group. She's safe, but, like, there's always some distance in between you, but you're like, "I don't wanna risk it," right? Or, like, you're in the- the job and every day you go there, and you're like, "I mean, it's okay." And the idea of just living an okay life just sounds so terrifying to me, that the freedom to fail over and over again is still more fulfilling to me. At least it feels like it's real than walking through kind of on autopilot. And so I think that's a lot of the choices that other people make that seem insane to me now but didn't ins- didn't seem insane to me a decade ago. You know what I mean? I think it's just, like, as you practice taking more agency, taking more responsibility for the decisions, then you just get better and better at it, and then it just seems more and more ridiculous. You're like, you're like, "I just can't quit my job." And you're like, "Why?" Like, no, physically, why? Like, why can't you quit your job? Like, (gasps) like, you know what I mean? They start hyperventilating, and it's like, "You could- could you move in with your parents? Could you move in with a friend? Could you split rent?" "I mean, I could, but, I mean, other people who are gonna die in 100 years would think what?" And one of my favorite ones is, um... And I say this all the time to Layla, like, whenever we're getting to some sort of, like, mini complaint. It's like, "You know if you zoom out far enough you can't see the Earth?" So we're talking about, like, "Oh, man, they're gonna mess up this order on this vendors," blah, blah, blah. I was like, "You know if you zoom out far enough you can't see the Earth?" It's just like- it just puts everything immediately into perspective of how ridiculous some of the things that we're concerned about are.