Alex Hormozi

I started a gym because I thought, oh, if I eat food with people I like and work out all the time, then my life's going to be happy.

And let me tell you, the most miserable year of my life was the first year I started the gym.

The most miserable of the last 15, the hardest year of my life.

And so the thing is that you habituate to the good, but you still suffer through the bad.

You get used to it.

And so definitionally, you need something that you cannot achieve in order to continue to strive, to continue to fight, especially when you don't want to.

And so I'm not going to speak for women and men, but especially for men.

I believe that we need to give ourselves permission to earn, permission to strive, permission to suffer and grow as a result of that suffering.

Because the stretch that we feel between who we are, who you are,

and who is required, the person you have to become to handle your current struggle is the pain of growth.

And we can't wish for the benefits of growth without accepting the cost or the price of growth, which is the suffering.

And so you could even say that growth is your passion.

But if growth is your passion, that means you're willing to do many miserable things in order for it to happen, which means you're willing to suffer to achieve it.

If you're suffering right now in pursuit of the thing that you find meaningful, there is nothing wrong with you.

You are not on the wrong path.

And this is how it works.

And the people who try to tell you otherwise either don't know better or actively are trying to destroy you.

And I do this work because I really do find it the most meaningful.

I put up with plenty of shit because I, like, it's hard for people to comprehend this.

I took out $42 million in distributions before my $46 million exit.