Alex Hormozi: How to get what you want...

The video is about a keystone habit that has served the speaker well in achieving his goals, which is asking himself the question "what would a person who does this type of thing do in this instance?" or "what would a wise man do?" to identify the behaviors and activities that lead to success.

This video by Alex Hormozi was published on Mar 11, 2022.
Video length: 16:02.

In this video, Alex Hormozi discusses how to achieve goals and create wealth.

He explains that simply writing down goals is not enough and that winners and losers have the same goals. He suggests identifying the behaviors and activities that lead to success and becoming the type of person who does those things. Hormozi shares a keystone habit he has used, which is asking himself what a wise person would do in a given situation.

He believes that this question can help shape one's identity and lead to success.

• External result is the goal you want to achieve.
• Processes, behaviors, and activities are the actions that lead to achieving the goal.
• Being the type of person who does those things is the identity that drives progress.
• Simply writing down the goal is not enough to achieve it.
• Asking yourself what a person who does this type of thing would do in this instance is a keystone habit.
• Identifying the activities that generate the desired result is crucial.
• Your identity is a voting system based on the activities that align with the type of person you want to become.
• Creating evidence that you are the type of person you want to become.
• Committing to the activities is the goal.

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The Three Elements of Goal Achievement

• External result is the goal you want to achieve.
• Processes, behaviors, and activities are the actions that lead to achieving the goal.
• Being the type of person who does those things is the identity that drives progress.
• Winners and losers have the same goals, but winners have the right behaviors and activities.
• Identifying the activities that generate the desired result is crucial.

The Keystone Habit: Asking the Right Question

• Simply writing down the goal is not enough to achieve it.
• Asking yourself what a person who does this type of thing would do in this instance is a keystone habit.
• Asking what a wise man would do is another way to approach the question.
• Your identity is a voting system based on the activities that align with the type of person you want to become.
• Asking the right question repeatedly can help you align your activities with your desired identity.

The Importance of Identifying the Right Activities

• Identifying the activities that generate the desired result is crucial.
• Private communication and public communication are two types of activities that can generate more customers.
• People know what activities they should be doing, but they don't always do them.
• Asking the right question repeatedly can help you align your activities with your desired identity.
• Using the question "what would a person who does this type of thing do in this instance?" can help you identify the right activities.

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The Power of Identity and Activities

• Your identity is a voting system based on the activities that align with the type of person you want to become.
• Asking the right question repeatedly can help you align your activities with your desired identity.
• Winners and losers have the same goals, but winners have the right behaviors and activities.
• Identifying the activities that generate the desired result is crucial.
• Using the question "what would a person who does this type of thing do in this instance?" can help you align your activities with your desired identity.

Identifying the Behaviors and Activities that Lead to Success

• Distilling down to what a billionaire would do in a situation.
• Asking yourself what a wise man would do.
• Having a certain refrain or chorus that you ask yourself.
• Asking what your ideal self would do in any given circumstance.
• Using this framework to apply to a vast number of scenarios.

Creating Evidence to Reinforce Identity Traits

• Creating evidence that you are the type of person you want to become.
• Starting with activity and doing the stuff.
• Using the framework of what your ideal self would do in any given circumstance.
• Breaking down the etymology of words to teach us about the words we say.
• Changing what we do to actively change who we are.

Changing Character Traits by Asking Yourself What a Certain Type of Person Would Do

• Asking yourself what this type of person would do when confronted with a decision.
• Acting in accordance with what this type of person would do.
• Being confronted with situations that you have not predicted.
• Thinking about yourself in terms of all the things you would like to be.
• Using the framework of what would Jesus do in this instance.

Reinforcing Identity Traits to Create Long-Lasting Deep Change

• Casting votes that reinforce the stories we tell ourselves about who we are.
• Becoming the type of person we want to be.
• Directing the types of activities that will be in accordance with who we want to become.
• Creating a reinforcing secular path of becoming this type of person.
• Changing character traits by changing what we do.

Identifying Behaviors of Successful People

• Asking yourself the question "what would a person who does this type of thing do in this instance?" or "what would a wise man do?"
• Identifying the behaviors and activities that lead to success
• Asking yourself what King Solomon, Warren Buffet, or Charlie Munger would do in a given situation
• Using an external person that embodies the character traits that you hope to have
• Choosing a person that suits the objective best

Creating Identity through Repeatedly Asking Ourselves Questions

• Repeatedly asking ourselves questions creates our identity
• Our identity creates the tasks and activities we spend our time on
• Reinforcing the story we tell ourselves about who we are
• Writing down what type of person we want to become
• Making that the chorus we recite to ourselves at decision points

Committing to Activities as the Goal

• Committing to the activities is the goal
• Every winner and every loser have the same goals
• What separates them are the activities they commit to
• Writing down what a billionaire who lost it all would do
• Doing and outcomes will happen as a result of the main internal identity shift

Discovering What We Need to Do

• Most people know what they need to do to achieve their goals
• We need to be reminded more than we need to be taught
• Asking ourselves questions can lead us towards our goals
• Discovering what we believe we need to do and making progress
• Attacking why we're not doing it is a more fruitful conversation than trying to discover the secrets of the universe

People Who Achieve Extraordinary Things

• People who achieve extraordinary things do the uncommonly obvious thing for an inordinate period of time.
• They do it because it is who they are rather than something to achieve an external outcome.
• They continue to play the game indefinitely because they are doing it for who they are.
• They get outsize returns versus the person who is doing it to make money.
• When they do make money, they don't pull back on the gas because they are being who they want to be.
• Alex Hormozi and his wife own Acquisition.com, a company that buys minority interests in service-based info coaching digital products type businesses and helps them scale to like 30-50 million and beyond.

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