Modern Wisdom · 2026-06-29 · 249 min · 48,369 words

33 Brutal Truths To Stop Wasting Your Potential - Alex Hormozi - #1117

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Welcome back, man. Another speed running podcasting booty core. That's the hope. Do more hard things every day is a great mantra, but it should be less about ice baths and more about making that decision you've been putting off for three months. Yeah.

Um I think that there's been a big misconception around hard stuff, which is just that like running a marathon necessarily means that you can have a hard conversation with your wife by saying, like, oh, I do hard things, but those hard things don't necessarily generalize. And so I think domain specificity is much more uh narrow unless you decide to generalize to an identity label of like I am the type of person who can do hard things. because I ran this marathon or because I do these ice pads. And then as a result, I can then generalize that label to other behaviors.

But if you can make that label and identify with it, then you don't need to run the marathon in order to do the hard thing. You just need the label. What are the hard things that people should be focusing on more? What are the step change function hard thing capacity skills that people should focus on more? I think it's being cognizant of what

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