#049 – The Rocky Cut Scene & The Pottery Class

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#049 at a Glance:

• Quote that will get you thinking: When inspiration strikes...

• Podcast you should listen to: Chris Williamson x Alex Hormozi III.

• Mental Model: The Rocky Cut Scene.

• Interesting Story: The Pottery Class.

• Tweet I liked: Be the person who wants the work.

Quote that will get you thinking:

Podcast you should listen to:

Modern Wisdom #738 – Alex Hormozi

Some of you might remember when I wrote about my favourite podcast of 2023 – the second rendition of Chris Williamson x Alex Hormozi.

They’ve caught up again for a third time around and don’t ask me how, but they’ve done it again.

3 hours and 17 minutes of cognitive gold.

Here are some of my favourite takeaways:

• Exposure to information isn’t learning. Learning = new information followed by new behaviour. Rate of learning = intelligence.

• You can’t fit in and also be exceptional.

• Great investors fundamentally NEED to think for themselves. Outsized returns don’t follow the market.

• Fear is a mile wide and an inch deep.

• Choose in advance what you’re going to suck at.

• The only insults that hurt are the ones that we believe are true.

• Agreement evaporates conflict.

• A circumstance or situation that is a requisite for success is never a problem – no matter how bad it is.

• The world belongs to those who can continue to work without seeing the results of their work.

• You can’t want to grow and also want to know everything you’re doing at the same time. The two conditions contradict each other.

• The best form of marketing is stating the facts and telling the truth.

• The Rocky Cut Scene (see below).

• The Pottery Class (see below).

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Mental Model:

The Rocky Cut Scene 

“Almost every successful person that I have ever encountered has gone through not a month, not a year, but many years of doing work without reward where they have to do things that other people find boring.

They have to sacrifice things that everyone else finds interesting; they have to sacrifice things that most people want to do during that entire season of their life and they basically sacrifice a season of other things that they would prefer to do, to do stuff that they would not prefer to do because of the one thing they want most.

And, that’s the Rocky Cut Scene.

Except instead of it lasting five minutes, it usually lasts five or ten years.”

– Alex Hormozi

Interesting Story:

The Pottery Class

There’s a pottery teacher who has two separate classes.

To the first class, the teacher says, “The only assignment for this entire semester is that you come back to me at the end with the perfect clay pot. That’s it. That’s the assignment.”

The teacher then provides the following instruction to the second class: “Your objective is to make the highest total quantity of clay pots and you will only be assessed on how many pots you make.”

The first class, as you can imagine, take their time precisely sculpting the perfect clay pot, obsessing over every tiny detail for weeks on end.

On the contrary, the second class works like rapid fire creating new pots over and over and over again, one after the other.

At the end of the semester, the teacher reviews the pots produced from each class and makes an interesting observation.

Not only did the second class produce a larger quantity of pots than the first class, but their pots were of remarkably higher quality and craftsmanship.

Lesson: volume negates luck.

If we do something enough times and truly dedicate ourselves to a particular craft, there’s no choice but to become an expert.

(h/t Alex Hormozi on Modern Wisdom)

Tweet I liked:

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