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What struggles did Alex face in his entrepreneurial journey?
If I were 85 years old and I got to go through a time machine and be back in my body as I am now to experience my life from my 85 year old self, it's dramatically shifted how I see everything.
How did Alex's financial challenges shape his mindset?
So let me walk you through it. I've struggled to feel grateful for most of my life. It's not that I don't have things to be grateful for. I have tons of things to be grateful for, but I don't feel gratitude. And so I've tried a lot of different practices to try and feel gratitude, you know, the journals and the daily meditations and things like that, but they've never really stuck. That's not to say that they don't work for some people, but I want to share with you in this video is one of the most powerful perspective changes that I've ever experienced. And if you don't know who I am, my name's Alex Ramosi. I'm the managing partner at acquisition.com, which is a portfolio of companies that does over a hundred million dollars a year.
I make these videos because I hope that you make all the money in the world and you experience all the joy that you possibly can in the process. I have spoken in the past about the frame of the veteran, which I won't recap here, but it's really just having different
What powerful perspective change has Alex experienced?
frames or perspectives through which to see circumstances so that you can improve your experience. Recently, I've been trying to toy with one that would create gratitude. There's a clip that went pretty viral not that long ago. It's also my number one tweet of all time, which is, when I was 20, I wanted to be a millionaire. Now that I'm a millionaire, I want to be 20. When I'm 85 years old, and in my mind, I imagine I will be a multi-billionaire at that point, I know that I would give up everything that I have of material wealth just to be poor and 20 again. I call this the frame of the grandfather or the grandfather frame. And it works like this. If you've ever looked at pictures from your past and you look at where you grew up or you look at, you know, your old room or you look at a picture of you with old friends doing something, we tend to feel these feelings of nostalgia.
And I try to quantify like, what is nostalgia? So to me, nostalgia is gratitude in the present for past circumstances. For whatever reason, we're able to kind of look past all of the kind of minutiae of how we were feeling, our moods, and we're able to kind of like see big picture the things that we are grateful for. Take a pause here. I'm sure all of us have tons of childhood shit and things that we wish were different and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But there are still elements of our past, our childhood, our adolescence, our teenage years, our college years, whatever it is, right? Where you feel grateful. Some of you guys are superstars and are always grateful for everything. And I'm, you know, I'm jelly.
I don't roll that way. It's not like I wake up and I'm like, man, I just want to count my lucky stars. Like I just don't, that's just not how it functions. And I've been trying this on and I hope you do too. Cause it's been, it's been really like improving my life. I tried to do this. I wake up thinking to myself, if I were 85 years old and I got to go through a time machine and be back in my body as I am now to experience my life from my 85 year old self, seeing it again. If I wake up and I feel my body and I'm like, oh,
This is so nice. I don't have all the joint pain. Ah, my wrists don't have arthritis. And then I wake up and I'm like, I remember when we used to live here.
How does imagining oneself at 85 years old influence gratitude?
Even when I looked at Layla this morning, I was thinking to myself, man, like this is my wife right at the beginning of our marriage.
You know, we're only six years in. We wake up and we walk over to, you know, to have our coffee in the morning, which we always do. And I'm like, isn't this so nice? I remember when we used to have coffee here together. This is great. And I look out the window. Look how young Vegas looks. It doesn't have all these buildings and these flying cars like it does now. It's so underdeveloped compared to what it is today.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What struggles did Alex face in his entrepreneurial journey?
0:00–0:12
2
How did Alex's financial challenges shape his mindset?
0:12–0:52
3
What powerful perspective change has Alex experienced?
0:52–2:49
4
How does imagining oneself at 85 years old influence gratitude?
2:49–5:47
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What is the significance of nostalgia in cultivating gratitude?
5:47–6:00