The Harsh TRUTH About Hiring Employees | Alex Hormozi — Transcript

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1. 0:00In terms of hiring people, how do you
2. 0:01spot an A player? Um, I will say that I
3. 0:04have yet to have an A player that I
4. 0:05don't know is an A player within the
5. 0:06first week or two. So, what are the
6. 0:08signs? What are the signs? They immed so
7. 0:11like support, right? They decrease the
8. 0:12likelihood of failure. So, they are
9. 0:14taking things off my plate really
10. 0:16quickly. Um, and they're proactive in
11. 0:20terms of their uh decision decision-m
12. 0:22and the actions that they take. A lot of
13. 0:24a lot of it is really just a tremendous
14. 0:26amount of activity. High activity, high
15. 0:28alignment. If you have both those
16. 0:29things, you have somebody who's moving a
17. 0:31lot of things in the right direction.
18. 0:32And ideally, you get a lot of attention
19. 0:33back. And so, like, if my life gets
20. 0:35worse when someone starts, that's a bad
21. 0:37sign. And if my life doesn't change when
22. 0:39they start, that's also not that good of
23. 0:40a sign either. Now, of course, there's a
24. 0:41little bit of onboarding. You're going
25. 0:42to have some of that. That's sure. But,
26. 0:43like, by and large, I want to see some
27. 0:46dramatic changes in how my time is
28. 0:48getting allocated. If I'm bringing
29. 0:49somebody in, especially if they're
30. 0:50taking things off my plate, but I think
31. 0:52that works at all levels. And what's one
32. 0:54of the things that you still insist on
33. 0:55doing personally even though you could
34. 0:58outsource it? Well, all the books. Um, I
35. 1:00write all the books. I write all my
36. 1:03emails. I write I mean I I do all the
37. 1:06recording. Um, tweets. All the tweets
38. 1:09are mine. Uh, all the tweets are mine.
39. 1:11Honestly, every every piece of written
40. 1:14word that comes out of acquisition.com
41. 1:17um is me. And that is a huge amount of
42. 1:20work. And so, uh, it's either me because
43. 1:23they took it as a transcription from a
44. 1:24video that I talked, uh, or I wrote it.
45. 1:26There's there's there's only one
46. 1:28exception, um, to that. But LinkedIn,
47. 1:31same thing. Facebook, same thing. It's
48. 1:33it's all tweets are actually my we were
49. 1:35talking about this earlier, but tweets
50. 1:36are my is my biggest secret weapon for
51. 1:38how I create so much content. It's
52. 1:40everything. It's the It's the
53. 1:42wellspring. So, I the tweets are my
54. 1:44stream of consciousness uh, in real
55. 1:47time. And then those tweets become tweet
56. 1:50reels. They become shorts. If they're
57. 1:52high performing, I'll just say them. Um,
58. 1:54many of those shorts put together become
59. 1:56longs. That'll be, you know, business
60. 1:57advice or brutally honest, you know,
61. 1:59advice I wish I had had. Things like
62. 2:00that. It's just 20, 30 tweets put
63. 2:02together. Um, with a little bit more
64. 2:03anecdote.
65. 2:05Um, LinkedIn posts are multiple tweets
66. 2:08along the same thing put together.
67. 2:09Facebook, same thing. So like Tik Tok,
68. 2:11same thing. like everything actually and
69. 2:14my emails are high performing tweet
70. 2:15concepts that then get repurposed into
71. 2:17email. So everything stems from like
72. 2:19that one stream of consciousness and I
73. 2:21think like as a creator you have to find
74. 2:23whatever that that lowest friction
75. 2:26method is for you. I always used to
76. 2:28email myself like ideas, quotes,
77. 2:30lessons, thoughts, and I used to use
78. 2:33that as my method for making podcasts.
79. 2:35And then I just had this like duh
80. 2:37realization of like instead of just like
81. 2:38emailing myself, I could just email the
82. 2:40world via tweet and I would just like
83. 2:42tweet them. And it also made me a much
84. 2:44better writer because you have to be so
85. 2:45concise with your language. Um, that I
86. 2:48think has actually improved my writing
87. 2:49from the book's perspective. Have you
88. 2:50said anything that's recently gotten
89. 2:52backlash? I think I had a a LinkedIn
90. 2:55post that got taken a little bit out of
91. 2:57context. So those I have somebody who
92. 2:59writes my LinkedIn, but it's my it's my
93. 3:02words, but he took it from like a
94. 3:03podcast like this and just took it there
95. 3:05and then just took an image and put it
96. 3:07together. Um and it was it was basically
97. 3:10like, hey, for 10 years, uh I didn't
98. 3:13like go to football games. I didn't play
99. 3:15fantasy. I didn't go out. Um and I like
100. 3:18skipped friends weddings. like do
101. 3:20whatever it takes to get where you want
102. 3:22to go, right? And the amount of people
103. 3:24that were like so two two different big
104. 3:26backlashes. So backlash one was just
105. 3:29like this guy's hustle porn. Like all he
106. 3:31wants to do is tell people to sacrifice
107. 3:33and I'll I'll address that in a second.
108. 3:34And then the other was like what kind of
109. 3:38life would you like I would never skip a
110. 3:39friend's voting. Like this guy's
111. 3:41priorities are all out of whack or
112. 3:42whatever. And so both of them come down
113. 3:45I think kind of like the do you do you
114. 3:47have an issue with somebody's business
115. 3:48is like do I have an issue with how
116. 3:50someone lives their life? No. It's like
117. 3:54different different destinations. Like
118. 3:55there's a there's a guy um who like is
119. 4:00probably a lifestyle entrepreneur and
120. 4:02likes to like talk about my stuff
121. 4:04and like I make in like a week what he's
122. 4:07made makes in a year and he's a big you
123. 4:09know whatever and and all I can think of
124. 4:13when I say is like we have different
125. 4:14goals dude
126. 4:16like we have different goals like I
127. 4:20don't like of course like it's like
128. 4:22looking at professional bodybuilder like
129. 4:23and he's like well I trained twice a day
130. 4:26and I weigh all my food and like I get
131. 4:29massages and I do stretching and it
132. 4:31takes me about five or six hours a day
133. 4:32to do, you know, all the bodybuilding
134. 4:34stuff that I do. And then some
135. 4:35CrossFitter is like, "That's ridiculous.
136. 4:36I only work out three days a week. This
137. 4:38guy is trying to give you bodybuilding
138. 4:40porn." It's like, bro, he's way bigger
139. 4:42than you and he has different goals than
140. 4:43you do. And so, um, it's just this whole
141. 4:47idea of like should I of like they
142. 4:49shouldn't do that, they should do it my
143. 4:51way, which fundamentally just is like I
144. 4:53have my life is based on my preferences
145. 4:55and their life is based on theirs. Duh.
146. 4:58And so, um, if you want to go to your
147. 5:00friend's weddings, by all means go to
148. 5:01your friend's weddings. I don't care.
149. 5:02You know what I mean? Like, if you want
150. 5:03to have a dog, have a dog. Like, I I
151. 5:05share the things and like I the one line
152. 5:06that I I repeat over and again is is
153. 5:08like my life is a documentary, not a
154. 5:10sermon. I'm not telling people to do
155. 5:11things the way I do them. I just share
156. 5:14what has worked for me and if it works
157. 5:15for you, great. And if it doesn't, I
158. 5:16love you. I love you all the same. Where
159. 5:18I see a lot of the backlash is just
160. 5:20because it comes off as dogma for
161. 5:22everybody. But if you added the
162. 5:23stipulation of like to those that want
163. 5:25to build a successful business, but
164. 5:26that's also not necessarily like you
165. 5:28don't need to cater to the people that
166. 5:30aren't going to listen. Foot long
167. 5:31disclosures at the end of every one of
168. 5:33your posts. It's like I can't if I put
169. 5:35all the disclosures in my tweets, I
170. 5:36wouldn't have tweets. I would just have
171. 5:37disclosures. So it's one I think I think
172. 5:39NAL said something about this but
173. 5:41basically it's
174. 5:42like for a post to get reach it will
175. 5:45have to have some sort of level of
176. 5:46polarity and to have a level of polarity
177. 5:48you have to remove context and so it's
178. 5:51basically like you can have complete
179. 5:52context and no one can see it or you can
180. 5:54be willing to stand on one line of gray
181. 5:55and say now for me if if more people
182. 5:59were willing to delay gratification a
183. 6:00little longer um because they saw some
184. 6:03of my stuff rather than take immediate
185. 6:05reward I can live with