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I Met The Self-Improvement King
Published over 1 year ago • 6 min read
Mega Mindset
Meeting Hamza Ahmed.
I met Hamza Ahmed the other week.
Let me tell you what I learned:
I Met Hamza
There is a way to raise testosterone, develop friendships and level up your business all at once.
What if I told you the benefits take 2 hours or less?
Yeah sounds crazy, but most guys don’t take the opportunity when it’s there!
I joined a meetup with Hamza Ahmed in London.
If you want to level up this year, network with other high-value masculine men frequently.
Meeting Hamza in real life was surreal- he’s the real deal!
Networking with so many great men at the meetup was awesome.
I forgot more people that day than I usually meet in a day…
It taught me something valuable:
Your net worth is a product of your network.
As they say- it’s not what you know, it’s who you know.
Borrow Wisdom From Your Mentor
One of the easiest ways to develop yourself is to borrow wisdom from others.
Get yourself a mentor that teaches you how to be better than you are now.
For example, Hamza Ahmed.
I watched his YT vids first, then joined him on Skool, now I’ve met the guy in real life.
Imagine how much I learned just from osmosis.
Here are 5 life-changing things I learned from Hamza:
Identify Your Current Constraint To Improve
Most people stop improving at a certain point because they hit a wall.
They don’t know why or what, but something is holding them back.
Your constraint is simply the area in which you are weakest.
What is your constraint?
You might not want to admit your weakness, but you must if you want to improve.
Hamza talks about 5 constraints:
Beliefs
If you’re new to entrepreneurship, or you are starting something new, then belief is likely your constraint.
It’s one of the most common worldwide.
What you accomplish is only possible because you can conceive it and believe it.
If you either lack awareness or belief, then you won’t be able to get what you want.
Visualise your goals vividly- imagine yourself in the life you want to have.
Imagine the man you want to become.
Only then can you manifest it into reality. Our imagination is our most powerful asset.
Productivity
Productivity isn't how hard you work, or how long you work.
It’s about how much you get done.
If you’re working 16 hours a day but you get less work done than someone like me working in 4 hours, then are you really even productive?
It’s about output, not time taken “focused” on work.
Focus is the key here- your level of focus is far more important than the amount of time you put in.
For example, Dan Koe has built a booming 1-man empire with only 4 hours of work a day.
We all have the same 24 hours in a day, and get this:
“The guy who makes $100,000 works just as hard as the guy who earns $5M.”
— Alex Hormozi
It’s about your level of focus, not just making time for work.
Deep work is far more important than shallow work.
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Skill is one of the biggest factors in whether or not you get results- even if you try your best.
Sometimes it just takes time- you need consistent practice in order to improve.
This is similar to building knowledge, aside from you actually need to do it yourself.
Action and experience are the only ways to build skill, but here’s something you may not have known.
Skill isn’t just muscle memory, it’s pattern recognition (depending on how physical/mental the skill is).
The best way to build skills is to get direct and immediate feedback (for example from a mentor/coach).
This is how you find out what works, and what doesn’t.
The more intentional the practice (guided skill-building instead of random practice with no particular aim), the more effective your relative skill-building is.
But you need reflection- action without reflection does not teach you much.
That’s why some people never improve no matter how hard they train.
It’s not just about practice- it’s about what that practice teaches you.
Trial and error- making mistakes is how we learn.
We must fail until we find what works- then we know what to replicate the next time.
Mistakes also build wisdom, which is more about skill than knowledge.
Knowing what to do with what you know is what makes you successful- not just knowing a lot of random facts.
Specific useful knowledge is far better than knowing a bunch of irrelevant facts, such as what the best workout routine is for a millionaire or the top ten business models in 2024…
Complacency
This one is for those of you who are now successful but don’t want to drop the ball.
Complacency is the hidden poison that spells the doom of many great champions and rich men.
Settling for comfort is the antithesis of success- even if you make a lot of money, if you give up self-actualising for comfort, you’re a pussy.
Once you make it (finally) the trick is to not get complacent. If you get complacent, then you’ll find that you stop doing what made you successful.
If that happens, you’re no longer successful. Your days of wealth and prosperity are numbered.
Eventually, you’ll fall back into your old ways and become miserable and poor again.
So to avoid all that, never forget why you started.
Never forget where you came from.
Don’t take what you have now for granted, for there was probably once a day you didn’t get to have it, or a day in the future when it will be gone.
Make the most of every day, because the only thing you can be sure of is that you’re alive here and now, in the present moment.
Tomorrow is never guaranteed, so live for today, and enjoy the journey.
Me Eating A Phat Steak After Meeting Hamza
BONUS Lesson
Being a man is about self-control and emotional fitness.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but action in spite of it…
If you want to succeed but you don’t feel like doing the work required to get there, then you can’t live your life always listening to your emotions.
Healthy separation from the way we feel requires mindfulness and Stoicisim.
Start meditating if you don’t already.
“Do the hard work, especially when you don’t feel like it.”
— Hamza Ahmed
So, those are the lessons I learned from meeting Hamza.
I would recommend that, whoever your mentor/s are, you meet them and other like-minded men.
You are the product of the 5 influences you incur the most.
In other words, surround yourself with people you want to be more like.
TL;DR
Find a mentor, and meet them ASAP (online works but irl is better).
Learn the lessons they have to teach and use them to identify and solve your constraints.
Continue this loop endlessly until you become your own master and mentor others.
Never avoid the hard work because you don’t feel like it.
From despair to success as a Stoicpreneur. I write about mindset, psychology and wealth so you can succeed at entrepreneurship without being chained to a desk or burning out.