You get rich by taking lots of risk with a small amount of money and you stay rich by taking little risks with a huge amount of money. If you succeed at a job that you hate, imagine if you had a job you loved. Changing your environment can change your life, this can mean changing cities, countries or just another part of town. When failing, be careful to take the right lesson out of it. The higher in something you are, the more you have to say "No" to big shiny attractive opportunities that are distractions costing you something. Nothing is risk free, it's about betting on a few out of an infinite amount of opportunities. You never truly expect what hard feels like, but going though out will get you where no else will as people don't do it. By making 21 podcast episodes, you're in the top 1% of longevity. Most of the pain people experience is simply in their own mind. Is an online comment bigger than your future, and is it even real? And what's if it's right? So what? And? You don't have to "deserve" X to do the things allowing you to get it. It's so easy to be good and among the bests nowadays as the bar is set so low. You're the only reason that you're not the person you want to be, take ownership and don't blame it on others/something even though they had an impact. Be the example for others in your situation, be the local source of proof. Whoever you point the finger at has all the power. Again, and? Don't get stuck into thinking and mental masturbation, take action and make things tangible. Do the core initial actions (input) to go where you want (output), once you realize that why aren't you starting now? Be an actual entrepreneur, not a wantrepreneur. Don't wait for the big passion, the big carrot, use what you have instead: pain, shame, etc. The pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of changing. Boost yourself over negative future scenarios. Sometime other people's dream for you have to die in order for yours to live. We sacrifices the things we want in order to get it: we sacrifice happiness to achieve success in the pursuit of happiness. Life is an infinite game with an unknown amount of people and unknown rules, thus it shouldn't be played with finite rules in mind: you don't win a great shape/marriage/business, the goal is to keep being in shape/married/in business. The goal of the game is to keep playing, keep doing the things that makes you successful. Balance success and inner content/health. The bests at something are the bests because they don't deal with anything else, and that's ok. Find your thing where your good at and passionate and go all in, you'll be the best by far. The person who loves walking walks further than the person who loves the destination. Don't care about people's life projection on you, who cares? We're all going to die and not matter. You can't find the perfect thing to do when you haven't done anything. Don't underestimate your opponent. Don't rely on ego but on your work and preparation. You're way better at doing something if you've just prepared for 20 minutes prior. When you're the one innovating and the others copy, remember that you don't need them but they do. You beat them at being you, they'll beat you at being them. You will never be first if you depend on someone else's content. More people stay poor because of their egos rather than get rich of them. Visibility doesn't equal influence and net worth. If you feel amazing, it's because you haven't moved up. The moment you get ego means you're getting stuck at a lower level: you've mastered the yellow belt so go for the black one. Be humble and do the hard stuff to grow. You're the small fish in whatever pound, not the big one. Because you know you suck at things, you can't say you're the best as well. Compare yourself to the bests to be inspired, and remember that they didn't have an equivalent themselves to learn from. The rarer you are, the rarer the people are who share your perspectives. The greater your success, the fewer people you can share it with. Also, you don't need more than a few good friends, raise your standard for friends as you grow but it requires to be comfortable with changing and temporary friendships. There is less surface and air at the top of the mountain.
Alex Hormozi