2.9M copies sold in 24 hours
Alex Hormozi's '$100M Money Models' sold 2.9 million copies in a single day, breaking the Guinness World Record for fastest-selling non-fiction book.
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The Man Who Made $100M Before 32: The Secret Was To Stop Letting Them Control Me | Alex Hormozi
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Jul 20, 2026
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One of the episode's most memorable stretches begins with a tweet Hormozi wrote in February 2025 about funerals — the food, the conversations shifting to other people's lives, the friends who couldn't make it because something came up. It's not dark. It's clarifying. Hormozi explains that older people and very young children share a superpower: they don't care what others think. The toddler in a tutu and cowboy boots is not performing — they're just living. At 80, you know you're going to die, and the judgments of others simply stop mattering. Hormozi's practice is to pull that mindset into his current life as fast as possible. The graph of subjective well-being over a lifetime is a smile curve: happy as children, miserable in the middle, happy again near the end. The question is whether you can compress the learning.
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