Sei cringe – warum peinliche Anfänge der Beweis sind, dass du auf dem richtigen Weg bist
Haupterkenntnis: Cringe ist kein Zeichen von Versagen, sondern ein Statusangriff von Menschen, die selbst nie den Mut hatten, irgendetwas ernstzunehmen – wer anfängt, muss schlecht sein, bevor er gut wird.
Creator: Alex Hormozi
Branche: Persoenlich
Bereich: Mindset
Tags: cringe, anfaenger, content-creation, selbstvertrauen, durchhalten, dokumentation, personal-branding, iteration
Kurzbeschreibung
Alex Hormozi zeigt seine eigenen peinlichsten frühen Content-Stücke und erklärt, warum Cringe-sein beim Start unvermeidlich und sogar ein positives Signal ist.
Langbeschreibung
Hormozi definiert Cringe als sozialen Statusangriff von Menschen, die selbst nie etwas gewagt haben. Er zeigt anhand seiner eigenen ersten Ads, Posts und Videos – allesamt objektiv schlecht – dass der einzige Weg zur Kompetenz durch eine lange Phase des schlechten Seins führt. Dazu gibt er den konkreten Rat, den Weg zu dokumentieren, weil man sich später dafür schämt, es nicht getan zu haben. Das Herzstück: Vergleiche deinen ersten Schritt nicht mit dem 1.000sten Schritt von jemand anderem.
Stichpunkte
- Cringe ist ein Statusangriff, kein Qualitätsurteil
- Wer dich cringe nennt, fühlt sich von deiner Entwicklung bedroht
- Die cringigste Haltung überhaupt: zu viel Angst vor Cringe, um überhaupt anzufangen
- Caring ist per Definition cringe – und das ist gut so
- Der einzige Weg zur Kompetenz führt durch eine lange Phase des Schlechten
- Dokumentiere den Weg jetzt, du wirst es später bereuen, wenn du es nicht tust
- Vergleiche deinen Kapitel 1 nicht mit dem Kapitel 25 oder 1.000 von jemand anderem
- Formel: Starten + Feedback annehmen + nie aufhören = du wirst es herausfinden
Zitate
“The cringiest thing of all is to be scared about looking cringe.” “The only way to get good is to be willing to be bad for a very long time.” “Don’t judge your first chapter by someone else’s 25th or 1,000th chapter.” “In order to get what you want, you must deserve what you want.” (Charlie Munger)
Action Items
- Starte heute mit dem ersten Stück Content, dem ersten Post, dem ersten Video – egal wie schlecht
- Beginne ab sofort, deinen Weg zu dokumentieren (Video, Fotos, Texte) – auch wenn du dich dafür schämst
- Wenn jemand etwas von dir “cringe” nennt, hinterfrage: Welche Regel breche ich gerade, und wessen Regel ist das?
- Höre auf, deinen Anfang mit dem Fortgeschrittenen-Stand anderer zu vergleichen – suche stattdessen deren früheste Werke
- Nimm Feedback aktiv an und iteriere bewusst, statt auf Perfektion zu warten
Full Transcript
This is the first piece of content I ever made.
- You know, don’t let your…
- This is the first ad I ever made.
- Are you tired for this place?
- Fast for today, we make 450 pieces per week. I wrote the Guinness World Records with the fastest selling nonfiction of all time. The 250 million in Agarevenue last year. In this video, I want to show you just how far anyone can come and not to judge your first chapter by someone else’s 25th or 1,000th chapter. Also, quick shout out to Domazetti. You’re the one who inspired me for making this. Here’s one promise I can make to you. You will be cringe. And so, let’s define these terms for a prick. Shame is breaking someone else’s rules. Guilts is breaking your own rules. Cringe is supposed second-hand embarrassment. Someone’s saying, “Oh, that’s cringe.” Saying, “I’m embarrassed for them.” But in reality, it’s a defensive status play, which means you should interpret it as if someone says, “Oh, that’s cringe.” They said that to you. It means I’m beginning to change my status relative to other people or relative to them. And therefore, I’m on the right path. And so, we have to ask the question like, whose rules are we breaking? Did we agree to their rules? If we set the rules, what outcome do those rules optimize for? A rule is an if-then statement is that true? How do we know that? And why does that matter? People seeing you try hard will say, why are you taking this so seriously? Why do you even care? But the truth is they’ve never cared about anything in their lives. Like, once the last time they took anything seriously. Of course, never, and it shows. And so, I had a guy once come up to me and tell me that he saw how hard I was trying with content. And then he said, he’d almost outsourced all of it down to Char’s Week. And he was like, yeah, I’m like bragging about it. And I said, yeah, it shows. And he just looked at me and I was like, yeah. It shows, right? He was trying to be cool about the fact that he didn’t try hard, but all it looked like was that he was losing. But back to point, is it cringe to care? Yes, of course it’s cringe. You can make anything cringe by just caring about it. And the only people who think caring isn’t cool are people in high school or people who got older but never grew up. So, be real about this for a second. Just changing how I talk about something can make it sound cringe. So, in the fittest world where I came from, right? Bodybuilding, you can be obsessed over muscles oiling up and posing in tiny trunks on a stage for strangers, right? Maybe competitive chess, right? Staring at a board for hours in dead silence, obsessing over wooden pieces like your life depends on it. Making YouTube videos, cringe is setting up light. You can set up your little lights and talk to your little camera like an idiot, like no one’s listening, right? Editing for hours, just for a couple views and comments. Ooh, writing a book, that’s cringe. Locking yourself away for months or years, pouring your soul into words that most people will never read. Like, you know what’s going to sit away and type of your keyboard, right? Anyone can make anything cringe, right? Because anyone who cares about anything is cringe. But the worst, and I think Dom Mazzetti said this in our love is that the cringiest thing of all is to be scared about looking cringe. So, why are you hating on someone else who actually has a passion or interest or actually tries? Like, do we really want to world when people care less? Because when you make that claim, like, who do you really hate? Who does the person who says that’s cringe really hate? Do you hate them for committing to something or yourself for lacking the guts to commit to anything? I want to show this in the realist form I possibly could. I went through the archives. I scrolled all the way back, and I am a weirdo about like, I try to keep everything. So, I have like my lifelong texts and videos and pictures, and I’m very grateful for that. So, I’ll give you a tiny piece of advice that anybody who’s on the journey right now, document more. Like, I would say, I don’t have many regrets in life, but one of them is that I didn’t document the struggle. I didn’t document the journey because I was ashamed of it. I didn’t want anyone to know. It’s kind of like the people who like, when they’re overweight, they don’t want to take pictures of themselves because they’re ashamed. But it’s like, one, you got to face reality. And two, if you believe that you’re going to win, this will be part of the story you tell. And so, Kanye was documenting in the very early days ‘cause he believed so hardcore that he was gonna win, right? And I’m grateful ‘cause I knew the first, the moment that I actually started documenting purposefully was the day that I had $1,000 in my bank account after I lost everything. I was like, I will never let this happen again, and this will be the beginning of my comeback story. Hey guys, real quick, many of you guys are getting started in business and don’t know, but other entrepreneurs have already tried to help. And so, 3.6 million copies were donated by other entrepreneurs in my book launch. And I’m donating these books as well. And so, if you’re starting in business and you would like the ultimate business backpack, all three books, this one shows you how to figure out what to sell, this shows you how to get people to find out about it. And this one shows you how to make money from it. And when you have all three, you can actually get started. All right, on top of that, if 30 days of school that you can get absolutely free, and all of this, including the books, including school, including shipping is 16 bucks. Yeah, like we lose money on this. So, go grab it, it’s the ultimate thing I can give you, my gift. Enjoy. If you go there and it’s shut down, it’s ‘cause we ran out, but as long as the link still works, there’s books. And so, I wanna show you some real stuff. That’s tough, but I hope you enjoy it because I think everyone, you know, many people will compare their current chapter to like my chapter or somebody else’s chapter, whoever your person is. But it’s not real. It’s made up, like compare it to this. This is the first ad I ever made. Now, compare that to my first professional ad that I ever made. It’s super cringe. Okay, here’s my cringey first post where I was trying to get people to give me money, right? I’m just like, hey, I started this thing. Please, please give me money, right? Here’s my first content piece that I ever made. Hey guys, Alan Ture, welcome back. Sounds very dialed, right? There’s a strong hook, strong meat, strong payoff. No, it’s horrible. Right? And this is the first YouTube video that I made when I started making YouTube cuts. And this is my first IG post. Now, 90 days after that first ad that I showed you, I lost everything for the second time. And that’s when I made my first podcast. And so, my goal was to document the lessons so that I had something to look back to as I moved up my career. And I thought it’d be really cool if Buffett or Bezos or Musk had some sort of like video diaries of the come up, not just the top, right? As something like an artifact for us to learn from that we could follow in their footsteps. Unfortunately, the world is too rational of a place to reward the undeserving. That’s a Charlie Munger quote. In order to get what you want, you must deserve what you want, which really means that you’ve got to be good. And the only way to get good is to be willing to be bad for a very long time. And so this is my promise to you, is that you will be cringed. These videos, these pieces of content, your first product, they will be cringed, but you will also not be alone. And so the point is this, you’ll figure it out as long as you start, take feedback to get better and never stop. And if this motivated you to stop judging yourself, ‘cause hopefully these are super cringed, I made an entire video on the iterative process that I followed to get here, which you can watch. Let’s see what this is. Hey guys, and then your next installment of the Mind Game series. I just want to talk about love versus discipline. And it’s a topic that I feel like gets totally misconstrued within the fitness industry because.
- Hey guys, open, open. So, measuring yourself is a really important thing to track your progress so that you can make your justice to your own plan. Makes sense. You want to track as many variables as you possibly can. Just for that, it’s not because you want to see.
- What?
- Who was the recording?
- I don’t know. (laughing)
- A trainer, like I have an idea.
- Hi guys, I’m Alex, and I’m the owner of United Fitness. So welcome to our family. Thank you for the opportunity to earn your business. So I just want to tell you a little bit more about what we do. United Fitness, we strive to be the leading body and life transformation business out there.
- Are you tired of fitness places that don’t make you have fun or give you the results you want when United Fitness is ready to change them? And you know how? We’re gonna have you lifting weights.