The Game with Alex Hormozi
Why My Books Go Viral (David Perrell Interview) | Ep 885
Wed, 14 May 2025
In this reshare from How I Write with David Perell, Alex (@AlexHormozi) breaks down his writing process from outlining books to testing titles, and explains why obsessing over clarity, structure, and “usefulness” is what makes his content stick (and sell).Welcome to The Game w/Alex Hormozi, hosted by entrepreneur, founder, investor, author, public speaker, and content creator Alex Hormozi. On this podcast, you’ll hear how to get more customers, make more profit per customer, how to keep them longer, and the many failures and lessons Alex has learned and will learn on his path from $100M to $1B in net worth.Wanna scale your business? Click here.Follow Alex Hormozi’s Socials:LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | Twitter | Acquisition Mentioned in this episode:Get access to the free $100M Scaling Roadmap at www.acquisition.com/roadmap
Chapter 1: What is the main topic of this episode?
Welcome back to the game. Today is a guest spot on David Perel's podcast, How I Write. And so this is a super deep dive on writing. And I would say probably about 30 to 40% of it's on copywriting. And so the book and the books that I've written, the process, how I think through it.
If you write for a living in any way, so you write emails, you write blogs, you write books, you write webinars, you write video sales letters. You write Slack messages. If you write words, then you might get value from this. I weirdly am not considered a writer, but it's the thing that I probably enjoy most in the world. And I actually got a full scholarship to college for writing.
I decided not to take the scholarship and go to Vanderbilt instead. But writing has been a part of my life for decades. as long as I've had a brain in hands. I don't get to talk about it often, and I think you might find some value from it. That's right.
Alex Ramosi has written two killer business books that together have sold more than one million copies. And all that obsessive writing has gotten him to nine million followers across social media platforms. And this is the first interview he's ever done that's all about the writing process.
One of the things that super distinguishes you is you just like go into Hermosi Cave every morning and you just write, write, write. So tell me about how you do that.
I wake up and then I caffeine and then I put earplugs and headphones on. I close all the windows and I really only write on days that I know have at least like six hours or more uninterrupted. sometimes eight, like I definitely suffer from like Ziegernick effect, which is open loop, right?
The idea of like if you have something later on in the day, like it messes with me a little bit because I feel like I want to be able to lose myself in the writing and then like come up for air whenever I want to come up for air. rather than think like I have to be done by this time so that I can prep for this meeting or take this call or do this thing.
And so I almost exclusively write on days where I have nothing on my whole calendar. And so I optimize a lot of my calendar around when I'm in a heavy writing season around not having anything at all on it.
And then when you sit down to write and say it's 6 a.m., are you like, I want to write for six hours. These are the things I want to get done. I'm going to get to do list. How do you think about that?
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Chapter 2: How does Alex Hormozi approach his writing process?
That's what strikes me. The bullets?
Yeah, right? Because if I look at these bullets, right? The six-part ad framework that gets more people, especially strangers, to want what you sell. How to get people to want what you sell would be like, ah. But you're like, there's actually a lot of things going on. Six-part ad framework. The specificity leads to credibility there. More people, especially strangers.
To me, that nuance is like, yo, I've thought about this. I know how you think well. And these are just very concrete. But yeah, so that's how I thought about the front and the back cover of the book. I like it. How is your writing different for when you're writing for books like that versus video? And what comes first? The books lead to the videos? The videos lead to the books?
How do you think about that?
Totally different process, yeah. So... Namely because of the volume that has to go out. If I'm on camera, I'm not very scripted. It's more like these are bullets that we'll probably make sure that we nail the introduction because that's very important. So nailing the introduction, nailing what the roadmap is for the movie, for the video.
And then it's almost like, I'd say this, the YouTube videos are far closer to what my writing outlines look like than my final product. Because if I were to write the YouTube videos as they were writing the book, it would take me probably a week of sure, five days, five full days to write just the video, to make it, to air, you know, airtight, air seal all the words.
But we can do, you know, a writing outline in like 30 minutes or an hour, you know, for a video. And that's much more manageable given like I actually do other stuff for a living.
How do you think about those hooks?
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