#900 - 11 Lessons From 900 Episodes - Alex Hormozi, Mark Manson & Winston Churchill

Why do certain people make us feel boring but others don't? Why is it that we feel full of stories and inspiration around some people, but around others we've got nothing to say. And we try to assess other people based on how interesting they are, and because of that, we miss a much more important issue, which is how interesting they make us feel.

If more money wouldn't change how you spend your time, you're already rich.

If you already live a comfortable life, then choosing to make more money but live a worse daily life is a bad trade—and yet, we talk ourselves into it all the time.

Purposefully let areas which could be dialed in further fall by the wayside in order to give your brain capacity to focus on the ones that really matter—focusing on your pounds and not everyone else's pennies.

The stress of trying to be perfect will kill you more quickly than your imperfections.

Some people feel interesting. Some people make us feel interesting. And there's a place for both, but on average, our favorite people are latter, not the former.

It's way easier to be someone who makes people feel interesting than it is to be interesting.

There is a certain subset of advice that, for some reason, we all refuse to learn through instruction. No matter how arduous or costly or effortful it's going to be for us to find out for ourselves, we prefer to disregard the mountains of warnings that we get from our elders ... And instead, we think some version of, yeah, that might be true for them but not for me. We decide to learn the hard lessons the hard way over and over again.