Alex Hormozi

I think most people feel really lonely when you want something that doesn't currently exist.

And so some people call that dreams and people call that goals, whatever it is, you're trying to pull something from your mind into reality and you want it done a certain way.

And if it's not done that way, it's not what you imagined.

And so people on the outside will throw stones and call you names that they think will change your behavior and get you to stop.

And the more I have been the person trying to pull things into reality, the more I've tried to weather and build kind of defenses against those things so that when those stones get hurled at you by being called a control freak or by saying you micromanage things or that you have incredibly high standards, the answer is yes, because I want it done right the first time.

People criticize because it helps them justify the risks they chose not to take in the hopes that it will dissuade you from doing it so that you can be in the exact same position as them, which then justifies that they made the right call.

There's this period of discomfort when you change anything because everyone around you wants you to fit within the label that they are comfortable with.

People don't like that.

So they're like, no, no, I like you in this box.

So just just and they just want to shove you back into it.

And there's there's a lot of uncomfortable conversations that you have to have where it becomes really socially awkward.

If you're going through that right now, and I promise you, every single person who wants to do something with their life and has done something with their life has gone through the exact chapter that you're going through.

And it's the lonely chapter.

It's the chapter where you don't fit in with your own friends, but you don't have the outcomes yet to fit into a new group of friends.

And you're doing this thing, you're consuming content on the internet.

And you're going through this and you're like, is this even worth it?

Because you have no signs of success, right?

But if there's anything that you can take away from what we're saying right now is that the sign of success is the hate that you get along the way.

And what you can't do is bend the knee to their hate and fit back into the conformity because it's comfortable and it's warm because you've been down that road and you know exactly where it leads.

And I know that's not where you want to be.