Don’t Be “Right” About What’s Holding You Back

“Do you want to be right about the fact that your life sucks?”

-Alex Hormozi

The Big Idea:

If you believe you’re a victim, you’re right. If you believe you have power over the situation, you’re right.

You can be right about the fact that the world is stacked against you, or you can be happy, fulfilled, and live in abundance. They’re mutually exclusive.

Being a human being is hard, guaranteed. Misery and bitterness, on the other hand, are not.

Transcript:

Hello everyone and welcome to The Modern Mythmaker. I’m your host Aaron Nichols, and today’s post is called “Don’t Be Right About What’s Holding You Back,”

and it was inspired by a video I watched and a quote I took from Alex Hormozi,

which was,

Do you want to be right about the fact that your life sucks?

The big idea is if you believe that you're a victim, you're right.

If you believe you have power over the situation, you're right.

This is not anything new.

This is not anything new.

This is not anything that I made up.

But I do have an anecdote that I think will help reframe this situation for anyone who is...

in a similar place.

Now you can be right about the fact that the world is stacked against you and that

you'll never do anything,

or you can be happy,

fulfilled,

and live in abundance.

It splintered the support beams of their dirt floor home,

folded it in on itself,

and then just dropped most of it into a sinkhole along with their farm animals.

Everything they'd built was gone.

Where they'd lived for three generations was just crushed into an unrecognizable

pile of rubble,

with the animals they depended on for their livelihood smothered or crippled.

next.

because it means that your basic needs are met.

So you can just freeze forever and you're not gonna worry about starving to death.

for that Nepali family.

We can blame politicians who won't release certain lists.

We can blame billionaires who have things we don't.

We can blame our parents who should have known better and raised us perfectly.

We can blame our physical abilities.

We can self-diagnose ourselves with the mental disorder that's popular today.

The list will go on forever if you let it, but blame is a drug.

You can always take bigger and bigger hits to explain bigger and bigger problems.

And we also live in a world where there's a history of evil people taking power and

a history of good people choosing to live despite that.

Blame, like anger, is a poison that only hurts the user.

And when the chips are down, all we have is what we believe.

Do you believe that you had it harder than everyone else and you'll never achieve

what you want to or live in abundance because life is just so damn unfair?

You're right.

Best of luck.

And I hope it works out.

it's your responsibility and you want to do something better and live well,

which as I can't remember who said it,

but living well is the best revenge.

If that's true, you're right.

And I would love to help you co-create an unimaginably abundant life.

That's all for this week, folks.

Thank you for tuning in to The Modern Myth Maker.

I'm Aaron Nichols.