Alex Hormozi taught us something that has stuck with me.
Every company hires you for one of two reasons:
Reason 1- You are helping them make more money
Reason 2- You are helping them save more money
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‘’keep pushing’’ & ‘’Try harder” works on the assumption that life gets better with repeated pressure.
…but what works is ‘’repeated iterations’’
Iteration means doing something again, but making changes to improve it. Each attempt is a new version - better than the last.
To improve anything, you need to find its weakness or drawback - and then change it, and you keep doing it UNTIL you get the best end result.
Take wars for instance:
In the past, to avoid attacks from intruders people built walled cities, and hidden behind these walls they could rain arrows down on a marching calvary
Then armies built fire volleys and pulleys to shoot balls of fire over the walls.
Then they iterated further and built gun powder, and then bombs to be delivered by planes
Now they have drones and less lives are risked during an attack.
…this is the iteration of war. Wars have become very efficient. The US can decimate iran from a control room in Saudi Arabia
This is the same process you use on your goals.
To succeed at stuff you need to CONTINUOUSLY iterate that one thing you are working on, just like humans did with war. Not use brute force.
If you run ads, and it is not working - you do not just pour ad spend, you study the data - and then make improvements based on that data. Iterate. before you push.
This is the RIGHT WAY to try harder.
Here is why it takes time to reach your goals - and how to get there FASTER.
In the US, a 30-year-old man may be going through his first divorce.
Which means that by 22, he could have married his high school sweetheart, bought a house with her and probably already has 3 kids.
In Nigeria, marrying at 22 is too early.
Because you are not “mature” enough.
Plus, where will you get wedding money?
But the 22-year-old American got his first job at 20, and can have a family at 22. His economy allows it.
Whereas a 30-year-old Nigerian may still be trying to figure out his life.
Here is where it gets nasty.
A 22-year-old American believes 22 is a ripe age.
A 30-year-old Nigerian man may think 22 is too early.
Which means it is neither late nor early. It depends on where you live, and the economy you operate under.
This is ONE EXAMPLE of how your life experience influences how you see the world.
And one of the wrongest thinking models to adopt is to assume a time constraint for things that don't actually have a time constraint.
Sometimes, you are assuming something should take long because of the effect your society has imposed on your mind.
Another example is a friend of mine who used to pay ₦2M a year as rent in Festac, Lagos.
He thinks paying ₦7M a year for a duplex is a waste, even though he can afford it.
When he moved to Canada, he paid the equivalent of ₦1.5M a month, and he paid for it for 6 months from his Nigerian business.
According to him, it was the cheapest rent he saw in Canada.
Which brings me to why I am writing this.
What can help you move through life FASTER is to stop assuming CONSTRAINTS that do not exist.
Example:
“22 is too early to marry.” (Lie. You just don't have the money or experience yet)
“₦7M is too much for rent.” (Lie. You just don't make that much yet)
You feel me? You are holding too strong to your beliefs as absolute truth when na just your world view, and nothing more.
The right mental model to have here is the Parkinson's Law, which states that: “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”
Meaning: if you give yourself 7 days to do something that could take 2 hours, you will often find a way to spend 7 days doing it (eg: remember how you don't read until one week to exam - because you felt exam was far away)
To put this into perspective:
Humans once thought running a mile in under four minutes was basically impossible.
People would try it, get stressed, fail, and eventually accept that it couldn't be done.
Then, on May 6, 1954, British runner Roger Bannister pushed himself and ran the mile in 3 minutes, 59.4 seconds.
And funny enough, after he did it, other people started doing it too. Something people had struggled to achieve for years suddenly became normal.
The question is why? simple - Because the psychological constraint had been broken.
People now knew it was possible. So they attempted it, and because they attempted it - they made it happen.
It is the same with life.
Give a task less time and you force yourself to become more efficient.
So rather than assume that BUILDING A ₦50M-A-YEAR BUSINESS will take 10 years (we once did it in 6 months), and that you'll get there when you're what? 35? 45? 75?
Ask yourself:
How would I build this business in the next 2 years MAX?
If you give yourself 10 years, it may take 10 years.
If you give yourself 2, you will FIGURE OUT a way to do it in 2.
The shorter the time frame you impose on a plan, the faster you are forced to move towards it.
Sometimes, the problem isn't that your goal is far away. You just gave yourself too much time to get there. Someone your age, with the resources you have now - is doing it in less time.
PS: Not saying you should go and marry o, but you get the point (i hope)
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