Alex Hormozi

And the reason that it hurts so much when people are like, must be nice, oh, that happened overnight, is because every time you fail...

No one cares and no one sees.

But when you finally win, people take notice.

Discredited.

But it's the only time they notice is when you actually win.

And so to even further reinforce the point, the fact that everyone looks like an overnight success means that the 10 years where they sucked, no one saw.

And so the fear that you have about people noticing the fact that you fail is ridiculous because they're barely going to notice when you succeed.

The difficulty with personal development and entrepreneurship is that you don't know when the end is coming, but you still need to fight.

And the only certainty that I can give you is that it's the same thing that every other person who got through that period went through.

But I think the thing that everyone who's listening lacks is the context on how hard hard work is, not in that it's complex, but just in that it's a continuous and unending focus on one thing and noticing the details that separate mediocrity from greatness.

And if you're like, I don't know what the difference between those two things is,

That is the opportunity that hard work reveals.

And most people expect that is hard work because that's the hardest they've worked, not the amount of hard work that is required in order to get the level of outcome that they say they want or that they expect.

And until you get great, because as soon as you get great at one thing, you realize just the tremendous amount of hours and work that it takes to be great at one thing.

And then there's this oh shit moment that I can express personally, which is you realize that there's so few things that you can be great at.

And then the discipline comes down to saying, what are the two or three things that I can be really good at in my life?

Because it will take me five to seven years to be exceptional at this one thing.

I am okay being a beacon of relentless hard work.

And that's the never-ending cycle of excellence.

Oh, I just have to figure out what to do.