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33 Brutal Truths To Stop Wasting Your Potential - Alex Hormozi - #1117
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The People You Need to Avoid
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Williamson reads two Hormozi lines that he 'violently agrees with' — that avoiding people who make your goals harder is self-care, and that the fastest path to change is surrounding yourself with people who set the floor where you want your ceiling to be [1] — Alex Hormozi "Strip people of their intentions and only look at their outputs. Someone who makes videos attacking you might inadvertently promote you. So…" 38:19 . Hormozi frames well-intentioned incompetence as equivalent to texting while driving: the harm isn't malicious, but if the pattern continues, you are justified in removing the person from your life. He adds that giving people explicit behavioral instructions — 'if you do this, it helps me' — is the most efficient way to convert well-meaning people into actually useful ones, and that withholding this information is unconsciously setting them up to fail.
