The Game with Alex Hormozi
15 Brutally Honest Truths You Have To Understand To Succeed | Ep 855
21 Mar 2025
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Hey guys, a lot of the business game comes down to what is between your ears. Because if you cannot stay in the game, you cannot win the game. Because in an infant game, the only way you win is by continuing to play. And so over the last few weeks, I've done a handful of podcasts and I've had a couple of hard conversations with friends that made this top of mind.
And so these are 15 rules of engagement that make the hard life a little bit less hard and at least get me through the difficulties I am going through that may be valuable for you. Enjoy. These are brutally honest truths you should know before it's too late.
I'm Alex Ramosi, I own acquisition.com, a portfolio of companies that makes all the dollars, so many dollars, in fact, that I have these very fancy screens behind me that do nothing but show my logo. Right. Anyways, let's start with number one. Pain is the price of progress. Man, I wrote that real fast. The fastest growth periods are often the most miserable.
If you want to progress, get used to pain. And so if you think about what actually occurs when you grow, you stretch past your point of comfort. So even if you're growing a muscle, like you stretch it, you break it down, it's painful. If you have growing pains, like as a kid, it's like you grew too fast and your joints are in a lot of pain.
If you're a company and you expand, this is technically supposed to be good stuff, but it doesn't make it any less painful. And so elite athletes don't get stronger during easy workouts. And so if we want progress, we must accept the price of pain that's attached to it. You cannot both want progress and live an easy life. These two things conflict. Number two, happy but not satisfied.
So let me explain this. So you're allowed to be happy before you hit your goal, just not satisfied. And so there's a very big difference between being content with your life, content with your work and complacent, meaning you're not going to take any more action. There's this great Haitian proverb, which is, behind mountains are more mountains.
It's kind of like after every peak, you can just see more peaks ahead of you, right? And so the work works on you more than you work on it. And so for me, I remember I had a year that I basically went into retirement trying to figure out what I wanted to do. And the thesis that I came out with was that hard work is the goal.
And so the fact that there's something that happens as a result of hard work is really just a secondary effect. It's a consequence. But the goal is the work itself. And so I had a friend this morning who messaged me and they're like, why do you still work? And I was like, because it's the thing that I enjoy doing most.
And when I looked back on my life, when I didn't work, I was bored and felt depressed. And when I do work, I am stressed, but I do have moments that I really enjoy as well. And so basically, I took this as a kind of a foundational truth for me, not for everyone. that there is misery on both sides, so I might as well be productive and useful.
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