Alex Hormozi 10xed His Income

in a lot of ways with business in my opinion ego is the enemy because it gives us too much confidence when we don't deserve it when did you start beating down your ego I mean I've been trying to do it since I was 19. uh it's just been a very slow process I just I just realized that it was the root of all the unhappiness that I had and like everything that I have was in comparison to other people with for no reason and like you know I've obviously adopted some perspectives we'll probably get into later but that are contrary into nature in terms of like how we live but not just there's no benefit to Ego there's just none and then I have a different thing that I've been thinking about recently I'm excited to share with you sure um so there's you've probably heard this but there's a lot of evidence that points to with mitochondrial DNA that we go back to like one one woman birthed like the mitochondrial DNA of all humans this comes like tracks back to one one woman right and so I think that that's interesting within the context of Legacy because people talk about Legacy and they want to like like leave something for their for their Pro progeny and we we love our sideways family members right what do you mean like oh yeah yeah like yeah exactly but like if we all came from the same mitochondrial DNA right then then we in like not to be like weird and Huggy Huggy lovey but family members 100 of course I find that really fascinating it's just like it's like a super distant cousin and and this is why that's why when I met you for the first time yeah what did I do when I met you deep long hug deep long hug oh yeah and I do this it was a triple hug it was a triple because I was like bring it in bro yeah there's a reason I do that is because um oh that's the thing I didn't know well I mean I I mean that's such a unless it's somewhere where it's like maybe someone who's older that doesn't want to be hugged or you know your wife I'm gonna give up quicker I'm not gonna be grabbing so yeah but it's uh you know it's a respectful you know understanding the human being in front of you doing your best respected but with you I knew I could just hug you and it's going to make you uncomfortable oh and it's going to make you uncomfortable but but for me I don't know if I'm ever gonna see you again I don't know if I'm going to see you tomorrow or or anyone tomorrow totally and so why not Embrace people with you know three to five ten second awkward hug yeah and let people know that you really appreciate the moment and you're present yeah that's what I try to do it's what I try to focus on but um you know and if we're all distant cousins yeah then why not treat each other that way the best way possible you know and I didn't and I didn't mean to launch all the way there because I'll go right back to Ego yeah otherwise we'll go in that direction um but yeah so I think because all this comparison is like well if I were comparing myself to a family member would I feel the same way and if if all these people were on the same side as me because we're all family when I still feel like I would because I've just tried to attack it from a logical perspective of like how many different ways can I try and defuse this bomb and I think there's a lot of keys and you just unlock tiny Pizza fit and you can just on try you know piece by piece I don't think anyone ever conquers it but yeah or you know just hopefully I can over time get better and this I used to be very competitive as well as an athlete that's all I thought about was winning it's like I had to win to feel like I was worthy or I was good enough or I was talented enough or and if I didn't win that I wasn't reaching my goal yeah of winning the championship or the prize or whatever it was and I took that into business for many years and I felt like I needed to compete with other people and then it's funny when I started this show almost 10 years ago I was like it can't be about me it needs to be about collaboration yeah in order for this to really grow and scale and change lives and impact people it can't just be the Lewis house show all day long yeah one I'm not smart enough I don't have all the answers I'm not as talented as you shorter guys are way smarter that's why you're so much more brilliant um you know and I was like I got to bring on the smart people and create a safe space I can bring all the tall guys out right now I'll catch it right like everything all my audience will get taller as a result but uh it's funny because when I started to shift that the ego goes back into still comparing and ranking some of these things and I was like okay when I sort of shift that it's when I you know the platform in the community started to expand because I made it about shining the light on others yeah you know and doing my best to shine the light on others and when you do that when you shine the light on an idea or a mentor that taught you something usually good things come back so that's interesting so when did you start to shed this ego mentality I mean I started attacking when I was 19. 19. how are you now 32 32 yeah um and I think I have like 40 percent less ego than I did and how do you have how do you diminish the ego as you continue to scale and exit these big companies and build your brand and get more and more attention and known how do you bring it back down to the humility I think it's linking the two so it's trying to link these good things are happening because I'm decreasing this thing that's smart and so that way I can associate I can have a positive reinforcing association with the success that actually that would normally amplify in the wrong character yeah what do you think would happen if your ego was at the highest level right now I think a lot of people would I mean a lot more people would not like it like I mean I don't think the message would get across because to be fair I think the message would stop it would the spread would happen much slower or not at all because the message would change because the message wouldn't be about the message it would be about me and I think that's I think that probably the reason that this has grown so much is because you've you've tried to quiet yourself in so that the message and the idea can spread to as many people as possible and you put the message on the pedestal rather than Lewis on the phone yeah of course and I think your audience realizes yeah

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Published: Tue Jul 11 2023