Entrepreneur's SECRET Weapon: The "LAZY MAN'S Solution" To Solving ANY Problem! | Alex Hormozi EP 651

0:00Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

0:11do you think it's possible to get extremely wealthy or amass a large sums of wealth by having a lazy mindset i really like this question i don't know if it's where where you were wanting me to go but i do like the question a lot um so uh yes for probably a different reason that people might expect. So I actually think in some ways, the lazier you are, if you can get over the initial hump, the more successful you can be. Because what happens is if you give a hardworking person a problem, they give you a hardworking solution. If you give a lazy person a problem, we'll give you a lazy man solution.

0:46What's the easiest way to do this? Right. And a lot of times, some of the best problems in the world get solved by deciding they're not problems. What do you mean? Let's say Layla says, you know, babe, and I don't like being called babe, Right. You know, I could have a huge discussion about this, and this is our plan, so we can, you know, get you out of saying this because it makes me feel this way. It reminds me of my mom, whatever. Right? Or you just let it go. Or I decide that it's not a problem. And it's way faster to solve problems that way by deciding they're not problems to begin with. Interesting.

1:14And so from the lazy man's perspective, I'm a big believer in working smarter, not harder, with the massive caveat that you have to work incredibly hard to get smart. So what do you mean by that? You have to amass an amount of skills. You have to overcome your limiting beliefs. You've got to get more knowledge, take more classes, develop yourself, build more confidence, let go of these different challenges in order to get to that level. Yeah, we all have to pay down the most expensive debt that we all pay every day, which is the debt of not knowing. Ignorance debt. I love this, this close that I saw at a presentation years ago.

1:50And I just, it's just so good. So man's looking out the audience and he's got this whiteboard and he writes a million dollars across the top. and then he says, ma 'am, how much do you make? And she says,$50 ,000. So he writes$50 ,000 for the million. And then he subtracts it and says$950 ,000. He looks at her and he says, every single year, he said, you pay life$950 ,000 for not knowing how to make a million dollars. And so the question is like, how much is that skill worth? The difference, that's what it's worth. Right, whatever that difference is. Right, and so - it takes and so everything like it's one of the haunting thoughts that i have of like man why am i not making a billion dollars a year it's like because right now i'm paying 800 million dollars a year in ignorance tax for not knowing how to make a billion right or to be fair or relationship tax or any tax or whatever all yeah timing tax it could be a timing thing it could be you know are you in the right industry thing whatever it might be you know you don't have to be a billionaire or make a move to zero yeah it's like okay do i want to be at a hundred thousand sure i want to be at $70 ,000.

2:52I want to be at$350 ,000 or whatever it is. First off, why do you want to be there? Why is it important for you? And are you willing to pay the price to be there? If not, then it's okay. Yeah. Live your life. Yeah. You won. I was just, you won. You're not, you're not obsessing over something. I was just watching this show alone. I don't know if you ever watched this show. It's fascinating. It's about people that live alone in wilderness and they have to survive. Incredible. I'm like, I could last maybe three days. You know, it's like, as long as my fat would survive me after like 50 days there's like three people left i think it starts with 10 or 20 right and all these people leave they tap out okay and they leave and after the 50th day the people are like they start you start to hear their mindset unravel as it gets harder and harder yeah and you have to ask they have to ask themselves why am i doing this why why do i care now there's a 500 000 prize at the end for the winner but you start to hear them say like i really don't need that lunch.

3:44Yeah. Like I'm pretty happy. Like it's just my girlfriend or like my dog or like, you know, living on the land. Like I don't need a fancy big home. I don't need this nice car. I don't need to impress people, um, in a certain way. Like I'm happy with where I'm at and here's what I do need. And this is going to bring me joy. Yeah. Why do you think people are so obsessed with making more money though and becoming a millionaire or becoming a hundred millionaire or a millionaire? Why do people even think about it or are focused on that? The whys are tough. because I can never have insight into why other people do things rather than that they do them.

4:18But I would say that it seems like, at least I would say more men than women are money-focused, and that is probably because more women than men are attracted to mates who have resources. And I love this quote by Idris Elba. He said, men fall in love with what they see, women fall in love with what they hear, which is why women will always wear makeup and men will always lie. Oh man. I just like love the quote because it's like it just I think speaks to the heart of you know how men and women at least socially measure status which is kind of the second piece which is people don't really want money especially at the highest levels of the game.

4:58It's not about money. They have it. It's about status because I mean you can only you only it's only chicken and rice even at the highest levels. Like you can only eat so much food. You can't eat gold. You can't eat diamonds. and after a certain point, you can only consume so much. So then money's only purpose is to go make more money so that you can... Do what? Make more money, right. Do people care more about status, influence, or power with money? I think it depends on the person, honestly. At least my beliefs are on the road. I think there are people definitely who prefer to be behind the scenes and moving things, making the world the way they want it to be.

5:29And that's also huge influence. It's just one is credit with the influence and sometimes it's credit without the influence. or the reverse. And so I don't know if I could answer for all of those people, but I think the motivations for making money can be diverse. But I think if I'd have generalized with the broadest brushstroke, I would say for men specifically, we get more status and we have more money.

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