How to Learn Skills FAST

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If you’re new to my channel, my name is Alex Hormozi. I’m the founder and managing partner of Acquisition.com. It’s a family office, which is just a formal way of saying we invest our own money into companies. Our 10 portfolio companies bring in over $200,000,000+ per year. Our ownership stake varies between 20% and 100% of them. Given this is a YT channel, and anyone can claim anything, I’ll give you some stuff you can google to verify below.
How I got here…
21: Graduated Vanderbilt in 3 years Magna Cum Laude, and took a fancy consulting job.
23 yrs old: Left my fancy consulting job to start a business (a gym).
24 yrs old: Opened 5 gym locations.
26 yrs old: Closed down 6th gym. Lost everything.
26 yrs old: Got back to launching gyms (launched 33). Then, lost everything for a 2nd time.
26 yrs old: In desperation, started licensing model as a hail mary. It worked.
27 yrs old: "Gym Launch" does $3M profit the next 6 months. Then $17M profit next 12 months.
28 yrs old: Started Prestige Labs. $20M the first year.
29 yrs old: Launched ALAN, a software company for agencies to work leads for customers. Scaled to $1.7mmo within 6 months.
31 yrs old: Sold 75% of UseAlan to a strategic buyer in an all stock deal.
31 yrs old: Sold 66% of Gym Launch & Prestige Labs at $46.2M valuation in all-cash deal to American Pacific Group. (you can google it)
31 yrs old: Started our family office Acquisition.com. We invest and scale companies using the $42M in distributions we had taken + the cash from the $46.2M exit.
32 yrs old: Started making free content showing how we grow companies to make real business education accessible to everyone (and) to attract business owners to invest or scale their businesses.
34 yrs old: I became co-owner of Skool.com to help the many people who want to start a business online do so.
Today: Our portfolio now does $200M/yr between 10 companies. The largest doing $100M/yr the smallest doing $5M per year. Our ownership varies between 20% and 100% ownership of the companies. Many of them we invested in early and helped grow (which is how we make our money - not youtube videos).
To all the gladiators in the arena, we’re all in the middle of writing our own stories. The worse the monsters, the more epic the story.
You either get an epic outcome or an epic story. Both mean you win.
Keep crushing. May your desires be greater than your obstacles.
Never quit,
Alex
FULL DISCLOSURE
I make content to make money - just - on a longer time horizon than most. I want to build trust with business owners so we can find the best ones and help them scale. And if they’re awesome, write them a check and go all the way as partners.

[@JonnyRoss]

Marcus Aurelius (if you care what an old dead guy thinks) Also said he was taught to have has many high quality teachers as possible. My goal for making money is to be able to afford more teachers.

[@angelomendoza6894]

awesome take brother! 🙌

[@sagar-kx]

Old dead guy? Yeah about that.....

[@JonnyRoss]

@@sagar-kx he's alive? Lol

[@sagar-kx]

@@JonnyRoss Nah he just just a old dead guy lmao. Dude was considered as the world's powerful person at this time. So calling him "old dead guy.." I know he meant it sarcastically that's why I added more to the whole thing. XD

[@deejaytwitch_]

Thanks for this advice Alex!

[@dawnwebbmusic4837]

Love this way of learning! Cuts the frustration and procrastination out 🔥 Life application of the skill verses just telling and never applying.

[@coachtinab125]

I agree, one on one is best way.

[@zendrox.von-laixer9192]

He's right bro. I've always sucked at math and have a hard time to understand even the basic things(algebra, linear,etc) but since having tuition one on one I've become better at understanding and applying my knowledge in math

[@shivinunitholi2493]

Precisely why I prefer the 1-1 training. Pre recorded online coaching has never worked for me.

[@shahid_lal]

High leverage of skill you are learning and tons of action.

[@susanburger3673]

Millions and millions of dollars. Dr. Evil, but smarter than his cat.😂😂

[@RohanShethMoments]

Great advice!! 🙌

[@sten4876]

Thanks

[@robertjova5400]

Alex ...... Whoa😮 Great Concept

[@davidthang6711]

Pay to win life

[@skylivley9615]

Thank you Alex.

[@_N0_0ne]

Thank you

[@a.educate6172]

What if we don't have $750 to spend per hour?

[@growstronger6708]

save $6000

[@joyzjazzy]

@@growstronger6708exactly what Alex would say🤣

[@JohnnyFlips]

Ramen it up

[@malachi6336]

and saving 6,000 is not hard once you realize it can make you millions later

[@Akrazzyy]

The point is that 1 on 1 works great for him. Plus, you can easily get someone who'd charge much cheaper and you will still learn great.

[@tatianacordeiro4374]

Podia ter tradutor Português, vou ter que aprender inglês logo!

[@afonsol2244]

Resumidamente ele disse que ele pagou US$750 (dólares americanos) por hora a um dono de agência de marketing (digital) para aprender como fazer os anúncios no Facebook. Em 8 horas ele aprendeu o suficiente para ganhar milhões de dólares com os anúncios que ele fez. Também disse que a para ele a melhor forma de aprender algo é através de sessões particulares de aulas com especialistas em conjunto com lições de casa relacionadas ao assunto que ele pretende aprender.

[@Wouterferdinand]

Yeah but what you sell? Does it actually have value

[@MahfuzohMuhammad]

I paid someone $200 to teach me how to write EBOOK in 2014. Till now I made 6 figures selling ebook. 😁

[@Drjakeylareed]

Yep

[@TRYumphCoaching]

Ok so realistically how many people can afford that? There is a lot of free stuff that can give you a good foundation but a lot of people are just to lazy.

[@christianmontes6213]

Priorities and perspective man, we spend thousands in depreciating assets but when it comes to our education we don't want to spend anything. Most people in the US can easily work harder to save up that money that will in turn buy you the knowledge to make more.

[@Brandon-Paez973]

Using free information like what Alex Provides can help you reach the level where you’re able to pay for tutoring exsctly like he’s explaining in this video.

[@RootBeerBrody]

6 grand. Six Thousand USD To learn how to run an ad on FACEBOOK?! KZbin is a free resource still, right?

[@LiamBClosing]

He didn't pay the guy just to teach him how to slap an ad up on facebook, he paid the guy to tell him exactly how to craft an ad that will convert infinitely better than one he put together. Sure there are free resources, but they take a lot longer to sift through and then you've still gotta go test out what you learned. There is a tipping point in life where it makes a lot more sense to spend money to save time than to spend time to save money.

[@RootBeerBrody]

@@LiamBClosing That makes sense. Gotta spend money to make money in many cases. However to learn a new skill there are far more recourses to use that are completely free. Even a free trial of skillshare would get you a decent way i to what you want to learn. Are they selling their own product or are they wanting to be an AD creator? No amount of spending money will save your own product to sell great, but it can happen. Though spending that money to be a professional in the AD creation industry, I can understand, but not throwing it at some company. The way this is presented feels misguided as if the advice was for the “every man”. Unless I’m misunderstanding and this is simply their experience with becoming an AD creator.

[@LiamBClosing]

@@RootBeerBrody the advice is not to a specific industry. The advice is the blanket ideology of "If you want to become very good at something in the fastest way possible, pay the very best person to show you how." Certainly most people aren't in the position to pay the best person to teach them, but this advice is quite good as your business grows. For example, my time is more leveraged doing sales calls for my business. It wouldn't make sense for me to spend a week trying to build my own website when it won't be that good and I lose a weeks worth of potential sales. It would make far more sense to pay somebody to show me how to do it quickly, or just pay them to do it entirely.

[@RootBeerBrody]

@@LiamBClosing For the example you presented: Have you heard of Wix or Squarespace by chance?

[@bradyvilhauer4445]

@@RootBeerBrodyI think you’re still missing the point - if your business needs to learn how to use Facebook ads, paying someone a decent amount of money CAN be worth it. Yes there are free resources duh but the world at large is still spending 80,000+ in college debt because it’s often a much more intentional thing. I get what you are saying, but if it was strictly as simple as “go watch a KZbin video and make your website on squarespace using free resources”, there would be a HECK of a lot more millionaires running around, including yourself, don’t you agree?

[@RaymerProductions]

True!

[@bryanD.C.]

❤HOMEWORK❤!!!

[@zacnielsencoaching]

Great video Alex 👏

[@Motivationstation82]

One on one would be great. Cant find anyone.

[@felixg.7752]

You know comment section theres this thing called saving money and if you spend your time working a little on the side to save $25 a week thats $100 a month in 8 months you could spend that money on someone like this and in the meantime you can research free shit on KZbin to figure out whos bull shitting you for the 750 and who knows their shit and is worth the 750 an hour

[@russ8985]

Interested to know what guy you learned from?

[@bryanD.C.]

Broooooo

[@thankyoueyezik]

gold

[@JS-ld2qd]

💛

[@scarsmakestars]

🔥🔥🔥

[@Go_rovers]

Advice is good but not everyone can afford $6k=Almost 5 Lakh INR for learning FB ads...

[@dac8939]

Alex charges for his time..

[@harshitsharma9152]

YOU LOOK LIKE YASH FROM KGF

[@Lockface77]

That won’t work for programming 💀 but for some skills it is possible EDIT: maybe it is possible but it will take more than 8h

[@Lockface77]

@@user-ve1gq2gw4n almost every language

[@AM-sd3rh]

Now that one guy is chatgpt

[@susanburger3673]

6k?, What a waste of money. I guess he has not heard about SKILL SHARE then.😂😂 What a consumer, good with money too.💩🤡

[@Muhluri]

SkillShare is shit. Trust me, I’ve had a 2 year subscription.

[@TheHomiePopo]

This guy work effect ethic pisses me off. Now i need to out work this guy

[@bradyvilhauer4445]

And the worst part is he is super driven but just explains it as “I wake up and drink coffee and then I work and then I go to the gym and then I eat 2 meals and then I go to sleep and made a ton of money” 😆😆. I actually love Alex and I believe that that is his routine but this magical formula we’re all still trying to find to cure us of our inadequacies simply doesn’t exist!!!

[@TooTRUEtoBeG00D]

WHAT?

[@martinjnagy]

Is this supposed to be good, realistic advice?

[@vichov]

💣💣💣💣

[@JDunamis]

Gary how much. XD jk

[@Firefreak594]

How come the tutor is so good at the skill but he only makes 750 dollar an hour?

[@idolbob]

750 an hour is a million a year. The ad agency owner probably doesnt male much more than that anyway.

[@jenninemorel7693]

"Only $750/hr"?

[@jmast1]

Holy crap, $6k? Just look that shyt up on KZbin, bro.

[@MinisterMindset369]

I think the reason he spent the $6k was that he values his time and obviously has the $$$ to back it up. He was able to troubleshoot instantaneously with the guy he hired, leveraging his time to acquire real-live data. The more people understand this concept, the faster they too can leverage their time for 10X, 20X, 100X their output.

[@Adam-pv4qn]

If you link me the KZbin video that will walk my stupid butt through how to run Facebook ads for 8 hours and let me master it to the degree that I can make millions of dollars in my business I will happily pay you 6k. This video doesn't exist my dude.

[@Muhluri]

KZbin is great for the basics. If you have a very specific problem youtube won’t help you. I’ve learnt a lot from youtube but I’ll definitely need 1-on-1 coaching to refine my skills

[@jtowensbyiii6018]

No one has 750 an hour to start 😂 thats literally more than a weeks full time pay after taxes and before bills