Hormozi Definitions
These have been collected over various videos, interviews and podcasts. I’ll need help collecting definitions from all the books as well if that’s possible. LMK if you've found any others.
Advertising: Letting people know about your stuff.
Anxiety: Many options, few priorities.
Branding: A deliberate pairing of things and associations between something your audience knows and doesn't know.
Commitment: When you eliminate all other alternatives.
Focus: The measured amount of things you say no to.
Guilt: Not living up to your own standard.
Intelligence: Rate of learning.
Learning: Same condition -> New behavior
Love: The continuum of what you’re willing to give up to maintain a relationship with a person/thing.
Motivation: Deprivation based on a reference point.
Objections: An expression or feeling of disapproval / opposition: a reason for disagreeing. When THEY disagree with something you said.
Obstacle: A thing that blocks one’s way or prevents or hinders progress. When YOU disagree with something the progress says. You are on the offensive and get to attack their limiting beliefs.
Overthinking: Seeking certainty, even when it isn’t always necessary.
Patience: Learning what to do in the meantime
Productivity: The amount of money you get out, for the time you put in.
Sadness: Lack of options. Which sometimes leads to ignorance, which is solvable.
Shame: Not living up to some else’s standard.
Strategy: How you choose to allocate limited resources to unlimited options.
Trauma: Accelerated learning that permanently changes behavior. And the change is not always bad. Change the behavior, enforced by a new condition.
True Hell: The person you are vs The person you could be
Virtue: Behavioral skill that can be trained.
Work: The sacrifice of the present for the future.
Updated: 5/18/26