The Game with Alex Hormozi · 2025-05-14 · 69 min · 15,294 words

Why My Books Go Viral (David Perrell Interview) | Ep 856

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Welcome back to the game. Today is a guest spot on David Perel's podcast, How I Write. And so this is a super deep dive on writing, and I would say probably about 30 to 40% of it's on copywriting. And so the book and the books that I've written, the process, how I think through it, um, if you write for a living in any way, so you write emails, you write blogs, you write books, you write webinars, you write video sales letters, you write Slack messages.

If you write words, then you might get value from this. I weirdly am not considered a writer, but it's the thing that I probably enjoy most in the world. And I actually got a full scholarship to college for writing. I decided not to take the scholarship and go to Vanderbilt instead. But writing has been a part of my life for as long as I've had a

brain enhance. I don't get to talk about it often and I think you might find some value from it. Enjoy. Alex Ramosi has written two killer business books that together have sold more than 1 million copies. And all that obsessive writing has gotten him to 9 million followers across social media platforms.

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