Warum Gewinnen nicht für jeden ist

0:00Alex, you always say that your capacity to work itself is trainable. Yes. How do you make sure you don't affect your health? For example, in book launch days, you were not sleeping much. Yeah, but I'm still alive, right? I mean, I'm sorry. >> [laughter] >> Like, bro, I want to win. I mean, like Like, you're not going to die. You'll be okay.

0:25Like, if you're working so hard that you're like not sleeping as much, fine. Now, I'm not saying you shouldn't sleep. You absolutely should sleep. But sometimes sometimes it's wartime, right? And I think um this term keeps coming up in my mind and maybe I'll write a book about it cuz I love the term so much, but like built for war, right? Like I remember like like during the launch, I just thought to myself, I was like I am built for this.

0:52And some people aren't and I think that's fine. Like Like, winning isn't for everyone. That's why only a few people can do it. And so like we have to be willing to make trade-offs. Like there are no solutions, there are only trade-offs. You trade one thing for another and then you decide whether it's worth it or not. And literally the entirety of life is making those trades. That's it. And some people trade short-term for, you know, short trade long-term for short-term. Some people trade getting high for being productive.

1:18Some people trade Netflix for getting forward in life. And those are just trades. Nothing wrong with it. It's only wrong if it's not getting what you want, right? And so like the health thing, yeah, be healthy. Long-term you get I mean, obviously your longevity in the game is going to be important, but I would struggle to say like show me somebody who's ultra successful who hasn't had periods or seasons where they're lopsided. And so my encouragement for you during these like seasons of lots of work is to think about work-life balance on a longer time horizon. And so meaning like you might have the decade of your 20s being a work season and the decade of your 30s being a semi-work season with more family. And then as you kind of progress on, those seasons will shift.

2:02But like if you're not where you want to be, you will have to do more stuff to get there. And until you have money, you will basically have to use work as your primary mode of getting ahead. And so you have to use violent, unreasonable, ruthless amounts of effort for extended periods of time and be able to delay gratification because you sure as hell aren't going to win fast. And so if you need that to keep going, good luck. But the vast majority of people have something that they're running towards or something they're running away from. And whatever it is that fuels you, use it. If you're business owner and you are not growing as fast as you'd like, I'd like to give you a free gift.

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