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Feb 2023
25m 6s

Why You Should Stay Poor to Succeed | Ep...

ALEX HORMOZI
About this episode

Take advice from poor people on how to be rich! Today, Alex (@AlexHormozi) talks about the 28 ways to stay poor and how these ways can help drive more success for you.

Welcome to The Game w/Alex Hormozi, hosted by entrepreneur, founder, investor, author, public speaker, and content creator Alex Hormozi. On this podcast you’ll hear how to get more customers, make more profit per customer, how to keep them longer, and the many failures and lessons Alex has learned on his path from $100M to $1B in net worth.

Timestamps:

(0:41) - What is “Inversion Thinking” anyway?

(1:36) - Ways #1-9 - Start tomorrow, blame your circumstances...

(5:30) - Ways #10-18 - Tolerate mediocrity, prioritize looking rich over being rich...

(13:02) - Ways #19-28 - Repeat your mistakes, assume you are always right...

(21:45) - The power of inversion thinking when it comes to taking advice from poor people

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(This episode is a re-run. Original airdate was May 10, 2022)

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