You’re Not Behind: How To Become Dangerous At Anything You Do | Ep 923
episodePreviously titled “You’re Not Behind: How To Become Dangerous At Anything You Do | Ep 981” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 2, 2026
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How can you learn anything very fast?
I'm going to show you how to learn anything very fast. And this is the exact process that I use to learn stuff for the past 14 years in business. And more recently, I just broke the Guinness World Record fastest selling nonfiction book, which generated $106 million in sales in less than three days. So if you see everyone who's moving ahead of you faster than you, and you hate that everyone's moving ahead faster than you, you might not be as smart as you think you are. Now, that has good news and bad news. The bad news is you might not be as smart as you think you are. The good news is it's under control to change and you can do it quickly. So this is the process that I'm going to walk through on how to learn anything fast.
So number one is, that was pretty, I see that. That was pretty good. Hold on. We'll use the original one. That was pretty good. Okay. So number one is we have to understand what learning is. All right. So what is learning? So learning is same condition, new behavior. That means you do something different in the same exact situation. So if I go... knock, knock, and then open the door and you say, hi, this is Alex. And then I say, close the door. Next time, I want you to say, welcome to Starbucks. So then I go, knock, knock, they open the door and they say, welcome to Starbucks. Same condition, knock, knock, new behavior, welcome to Starbucks, right? To the same degree, if I go knock, knock after saying that and the person says anything besides welcome to Starbucks, that person is a little dumber than the person who got it on the first shot.
The number of times it takes you to change your behavior in the same condition is a dictation of how intelligent you are. Because learning is same condition of behavior. Intelligence is speed of learning. Intelligence is a rate. It's a question of speed. If you think about how you describe somebody, like he's quick, he picks things up fast. So for you, there's a couple ways to think about this. Way one is, oh, he picks things up in terms of it takes fewer iterations for that person to change their behavior. That's good.
What is the process of learning according to Alex Hormozi?
But guess what else you can do if you're somebody who didn't have that level of call it intellect. Let's say it does take you more iterations. Guess what you do? You can change how quickly you do them. So some people might take three iterations to get something right, but they delay the iterations once a week, another week, another week. If you say, I'm going to lock in and I'm going to do seven iterations because I'm twice as dumb as they are, but I'm going to do them all in one day because I'm going to not let any light in my room and I'm just going to lock in, then guess what? you are smarter than them because you change your behavior faster than they did on a timeline basis rather than an iteration basis.
So there's two vectors you can think of here. And this is important to me to realize this Because I, so I went to Vanderbilt, fancy school. I think it's like top five or seven, whatever, in the US right now. And when I was there, I felt like I had below average intelligence of the people who were in the room. And so I was like, how am I gonna be able to beat these guys? And so I just said, oh, okay, I'll just work from the time I wake up until 9 p.m. every day. So that's what I did. From nine to nine, I was in the library unless I was in class. or I was in the cafeteria or the gym. Those are the only things I did. I ate, I studied, and I worked out from 9 to 9. That was it. That was all I did. And once I realized that, I was able to move forward a lot faster than other people, even though I felt like they had intellectual capacity superior to me.
They might have been able to learn things in three iterations, but I was able to do my 10 iterations faster than they were able to do their three. And so fundamentally, learning is same condition, new behavior. Now, what is a skill? People have said this a lot. A skill is a chain of adapted behaviors, all right? That means you learn multiple things, same condition, new behavior, same condition, new behavior, same condition, new behavior.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
How can you learn anything very fast?
0:00–2:07
2
What is the process of learning according to Alex Hormozi?
2:07–6:38
3
What defines intelligence in the context of learning?
6:38–15:56
4
How do you deconstruct a skill effectively?
15:56–29:47
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What does it mean to define success in skill acquisition?
29:47–30:12