**How to make progress faster than everyone — Transcript & Summary | SozAI**
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Alex Hormozi shares his journey from cringe beginnings to massive success, emphasizing the importance of persistence and embracing failure.

## Key Takeaways

- Everyone starts with cringe-worthy efforts; progress requires embracing imperfection.
- Caring deeply about your work is often seen as cringe but is essential for success.
- Documenting your journey, including failures, is crucial for growth and motivation.
- Success requires deserving what you want by putting in the hard work and time.
- Breaking others' rules and setting your own standards helps optimize outcomes.

## What the video covers

- Alex Hormozi reflects on his early, cringe-worthy content and ads as part of his growth journey.
- He defines key emotional concepts: shame, guilt, and cringe, explaining their impact on progress.
- Hormozi discusses the social dynamics behind calling something 'cringe' and encourages breaking others' rules if they don't serve you.
- He highlights the importance of caring and trying hard despite criticism or embarrassment.
- The video stresses the value of documenting your journey, even the struggles, as part of your success story.
- Alex shares his personal story of losing everything twice and using documentation as a comeback tool.
- He offers free business books and a 30-day school to help entrepreneurs get started.
- Hormozi compares his early ads and content to his professional work to illustrate growth over time.
- He quotes Charlie Munger on deserving success and emphasizes the necessity of being willing to be bad before becoming good.
- The overall message is to start, embrace cringe, take feedback, and persist to make progress faster than others.

## Chapters

1. 00:00 Introduction and First Content Experiences
2. 00:25 Defining Shame, Guilt, and Cringe
3. 01:00 Breaking Rules and Social Perceptions
4. 01:33 Effort, Caring, and Criticism
5. 02:07 Examples of Cringe in Different Contexts
6. 03:17 Importance of Documenting Your Journey
7. 03:46 Offering Business Resources for Entrepreneurs
8. 04:17 Comparing Early Work to Professional Content
9. 04:43 Philosophy on Success and Deserving It
10. 05:04 Conclusion: Embrace Cringe and Persist

Answers

## Questions about this video

What does Alex Hormozi mean by 'cringe' in this video?

Alex defines 'cringe' as a form of secondhand embarrassment often used as a defensive status play. He encourages viewers to embrace cringe as a natural part of growth and progress.

Why does Alex emphasize documenting your journey?

He believes documenting struggles and progress helps face reality, serves as motivation, and creates a story to look back on, which is crucial for long-term success.

What advice does Alex give to new entrepreneurs?

Alex offers free business books and a 30-day school to help entrepreneurs learn how to find products, attract customers, and make money, emphasizing the importance of starting and learning.

## Full Transcript — Download SRT & Markdown

00:00

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This is the first piece of content I ever made. Don't let your... This is the first ad I ever made.

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Are you tired of fitness? Fast forward to today. We make 450 pieces per week. I broke the Guinness World Record for the fastest selling non-fiction of all time with $16 million in sales in a weekend. And we own a portfolio of companies that did north of

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$250 million in aggregate revenue last year. In this video, I want to show you just how far anyone can come and not to judge your first chapter by someone else's 25th or thousandth chapter. Also, quick shout out to Don Misetti. You're the one

00:25

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who inspired me to make this. Here's one promise I can make to you: you will be cringe. And so, let's define these terms real quick. Shame is breaking someone else's rules. Guilt is breaking your own rules. Cringe is supposed

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secondhand embarrassment. Someone saying, "Oh, that's cringe." Saying, "I'm embarrassed for them." But in reality, it's a defensive status play, which means you should interpret it as if someone says, "Oh, that's cringe.

00:49

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They said that to you." It means I'm beginning to change my status relative to other people or relative to them, and therefore I'm on the right path. And so we have to ask the question: like, whose rules are we breaking? Did we agree to

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their rules? If we set the rules, what outcome do those rules optimize for? A rule is an if-then statement. Is that true? How do we know that? And why does that matter? People seeing you try hard will say, "Why are you taking this so

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seriously? Why do you even care?" But the truth is, they've never cared about anything in their lives. Like, when's the last time they took anything seriously?

01:22

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Of course, never. And it shows. And so I had a guy once come up to me and tell me that he saw how hard I was trying with content and then he said he'd almost outsourced all of it down to two hours a

01:33

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week. And he was, and he was like, "Yeah," like bragging about it. And I said, "Yeah, it shows." And he just looked at me and I was like, "Yeah, it shows, right?" He was trying to be cool

01:41

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about the fact that he didn't try hard, but all it looked like was that he was losing. But back to the point, is it cringe to care? Yes, of course it's cringe. You can make anything cringe by just caring

01:53

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about it. And the only people who think caring isn't cool are people in high school or people who got older but never grew up. So be real about this for a second. Just changing how I talk about something can make it sound cringe. So

02:07

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in the fitness world where I came from, right, bodybuilding, you could be obsessed over muscles, oiling up, and posing in tiny trunks on a stage for strangers, right? Maybe competitive chess, right?

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Staring at a board for hours in dead silence. Obsessing over wooden pieces like your life depends on it. Making YouTube videos. Cringe. Setting up light. You going to set up your little lights and talk to your little camera

02:29

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like an idiot. Like no one's listening, right? Editing for hours just for a couple views and comments. Oh, writing a book. That's cringe. Locking yourself away for months or years pouring your soul into words that most people will

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never read. Like you just go sit away and type at your keyboard, right? Anyone can make anything cringe, right? Because anyone who cares about anything is cringe. But the worst, and I think, um, Donetti said this and I love this, the

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cringiest thing of all is to be scared about looking cringe. So why are you hating on someone else who actually has a passion or an interest or actually tries? Like, do we really want a world where people care less? Because when you

03:06

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make that claim, like who do you really hate? Who does the person who says that's cringe really hate? Do you hate them for committing to something or yourself for lacking the guts to commit to anything? I want to show this in the

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the realest form I possibly could. I went through the archives. I scrolled all the way back and I, um, I'm a weirdo about like I try to keep everything. So, I have like my lifelong texts and videos and and and and u and pictures and I'm

03:30

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very grateful for that. So, I'll give you a tiny piece of advice to anybody who's on the journey right now. Document more. Like one, I would say I don't have many regrets in life, but one of them is

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that I didn't document the struggle. I didn't document the journey because I was ashamed of it. I didn't want anyone to know. It's kind of like the people who, like, when they're overweight, they don't want to take pictures of themselves because

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they're ashamed. But it's like one, you got to face reality. And two, if you believe that you're going to win, this will be part of the story you tell. And so you, like Kanye was documenting in the very early days because he believed so

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hardcore that he was going to win, right? And I'm grateful because I knew the first, the moment that I actually started documenting purposefully was the day that I had $1,000 left in my bank account after I lost everything. I

04:08

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was like, I will never let this happen again. And this will be the beginning of my comeback story. Hey guys, real quick.

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Many of you guys are getting started in business and don't know, but other entrepreneurs have already tried to help. And so 3.6 million copies were donated by other entrepreneurs in my book launch. And I'm donating these books as well. And so if you're starting

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in business and you would like the ultimate business backpack, all three books, this one shows you how to figure out what to sell. This shows you how to get people to find out about it. And this one shows you how to make money

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from it. When you have all three, you can actually get started. All right. On top of that, you have 30 days of school that you can get absolutely free. And all of this, including the books, including school, including shipping, is

04:42

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16 bucks. Yeah. Like, we lose money on this. So, go grab it. Um, it's the ultimate thing I can give you, my gift. Uh, enjoy. Um, if you go there and it's shut down, it's because we ran out, but as long as the link still

04:54

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works, there are books. And so, I want to show you some real stuff. That's tough. Um, but I hope you enjoy it because I think everyone, you know, many people will compare their current chapter to like my chapter, somebody

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else's chapter, whoever your person is, but it's not real. It's made up like, like, compare it to this. This is the first ad I ever made.

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Now, compare that to my first professional ad that I ever made. Super cringe. Okay, here's my cringy first post where I was trying to get people to give me money.

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Right? I'm just like, "Hey, I started this thing. Please, please give me money." Right? Here's my first content piece that I ever made.

05:37

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Hey guys, Alex here. Welcome back. Sounds very dialed, right? There's a strong hook, strong meat, strong payoff.

05:43

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No, it's horrible, right? And this is the first YouTube video that I made when I started making YouTube content. And this is my first IG post.

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Now, 90 days after that first ad that I showed you, um, I lost everything for the second time. And that's when I made my first podcast. And so, my goal was to document the lessons so that I had

06:07

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something to look back to as I moved up in my career. And I thought it'd be really cool if Buffett or Bezos or Musk had done some sort of like video diaries of the come-up, not just the top,

06:18

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right? As something to like an artifact for us to learn from that we could follow in their footsteps.

06:22

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Unfortunately, the world is too rational of a place to reward the undeserving. That's a Charlie Munger quote. In order to get what you want, you must deserve what you want, which really means that you've got to be good. And the only way to get

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good is to be willing to be bad for a very long time. And so, this is my promise to you: you will be cringe. These videos, these pieces of content, your first product, they will be cringe, but you will also not be

06:44

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alone. And so, the point is this: you'll figure it out as long as you start, take feedback to get better.

06:51

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And if this motivated you to stop judging yourself, because hopefully these are super cringe, I made an entire video on the iterative process that I followed to get here, which you can watch. See what this is. Hey guys, and

07:01

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in your next installment of the mind game series, uh I just want to talk about love versus discipline. And it's a topic that I feel like gets totally misconstrued within the fitness industry because Hey guys, welcome. Okay, so measuring

07:16

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yourself is a really important thing for tracking progress so that you can make adjustments to your meal plan. Makes sense. You want to track as many variables as you possibly can. The reason for that is not because you want

07:26

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to see who was recording. I don't know a trainer like I have no idea.

07:33

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Hi guys, I'm Alex and I'm the owner of United Fitness. So welcome to our family. Thank you for the opportunity to earn your business. So I just want to tell you a little bit more about what we do. Uh, United Fitness, we uh strive to

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be the leading body and life transformation business out there. Are you tired of fitness places that don't make you have fun or give you the results you want? Well, United Fitness is ready to change that. And you know

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how? We're going to have you lifting weights.

Topics: Alex Hormozi progress cringe entrepreneurship business growth motivation persistence self-improvement content creation documenting journey


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