HOW HORMOZI’S GRANDPA FRAME SOLVED GRATITUDE

And no, it's not framing a photo of your grandpa, or waiting til you're 80 to be grateful.

The Normal View On Gratitude

Gratitude is tricky. You take out the journal. You write down how much you love family and friends. How much you love the pen you’re writing with. The sun is out. That’s definitely a plus.

But you may not actually be reaping the benefits of gratitude. You don’t feel entirely happy, and you’re not living a longer life because of your healthy outlook. You’re just trying to convince yourself you’re feeling the gratitude.

This is perfectly normal. We get used to what we have. But what if there was a way to really feel that wholesome sense that we have everything we want? A strategy that would activate that inner high, to make you a more positive person?

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Alex The Great

Alex Hormozi is a deca millionaire who scaled Gym Launch, Allan, Acquisition.com, and now is taking over the media game with some of the best business content, all at age 34. But he is not just known for his good takes on business, but also on life and philosophy.

Alex, like a lot of us, tried the different gratitude practices. He was obsessed with happiness, and realized being grateful was the closest thing any of us could get to feeling good all the time, other than owning a 100 million dollar company of course.



He whipped out the journal. Nothing. He tried to meditate and think on it. Nothing. Was he heartless? Debatable, but I think not, and neither did he. Alex realized he needed a new approach to this thing or he was never going to truly appreciate what he had.

Frame of the Grandfather

You wake up and hit the alarm. 6:00AM. A little late start to the day, but it’ll do. You spring out of bed.

Damn. That back pain is not good.

“Where are my pills,” you think to yourself? You slowly stand up and walk to the corner of the room to grab your brand new cane you got from the cane store the other day. You think you spotted your pills on your desk, but that was actually just your Alexa. Common mistake with those old eyes.

You put on some goofy looking shorts. You pull up your extremely long socks. You put on your “Best Grandpa Shirt” your grandkids gave you a few years ago. You struggle and slam around on the desk trying to find your glasses, then put the strap over your head, and they rest snug on your nose. Best part, you do all this while daydreaming about the presentation you have to give in 30 minutes.

No more day dreaming, “Time to stop being limited by this slow body,” you think. Let’s get rolling.

You hop on your electric scooter, and zoom out of the house going 10 MPH. Hopefully there aren’t any cops around to see this.

You wake up in a pool of sweat. It was just a dream. Well, sort of.

The Point

Here are two points to this framework.

The first, which the story illustrates well. This is the unknown reality many people fall into in their older age. Health issues, unfortunate pains, questionably boring lifestyle. So you should be damn grateful that at whatever age you’re reading this, you don’t have that.

But the genuine idea, and the more wholesome one, is the complex idea of nostalgia. There is nothing like it. We are able to look back on a moment in time, and discredit every single bad thing that was happening and only feel the good. You miss the memory, and visions of it play in your head. You’re thinking of a past family vacation, and not hearing the annoying cousin or feeling the sun baking your skin at an extremely unhealthy level.

The problem with nostalgia is it comes after. So we can only experience it when we look back on things in our past, because we have that contrast of our life now vs then. But what if there was a way to feel nostalgia right now?

Where We’re Going, We Don’t Need Nostalgia?

For this, we’re going to need to borrow my friend Doc’s delorian. It will only be for a bit. He owes me anyway. Let’s go back to the future.

Fast forward to that old you again. Instead of going through that daily routine, you start to think back to insert your current age here.

“What a time that was. I was so young. I started my first business then. Most of my family was still alive and healthy. I hadn’t even moved out of the house yet. I still had a few more hang outs with my close friends before we lost contact. I had a good relationships with my sibling then. I had so much energy and excitement for my future.”

Older you ain’t wrong. He is looking at things you are living through now, and smiling while shedding a tear. Just one, two is way too many. So if we cannot experience nostalgia now, they way to do it is to time travel.

Every single day, hop in the delorian. Don’t worry, Doc owes me a lot of favors actually.

Go to the older you, and see what he thinks about everything. Your upset over X, Y, and Z. But 85 year old you views that as such a good period of his life. He is grateful for it, and only sees the good it brought, and the fun times that we had. Future you misses it and wishes he could go back, even through the pain.

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