- It's just so funny thinking about how vacation seems like a
million years ago literally was just thinking like how not
motivated I am for the showman aspect of this, you know?
Not only am I back in the grind,
I'm like so deeply in it that like...
It was funny somebody left a comment, I ended the episode
two episodes ago I guess with like just a grimy.
- [DRock] Yeah.
- And the guy, you see his comment?
He was like, "What do you mean grimy and hustle and execution?
"All this guys does is walk
"around and shake people's hands."
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Have a good day.
Let me just, I'll back up where I can the punchline is that, you
know, if you weren't the first mover on the platform itself,
you can still be a first mover
by being the first mover in a new feature.
Like live video capabilities or in this example filters or some
other or Instagram stories.
There's always gonna be new feature builds on these
platforms that allow a new opportunity to be the first
mover tactically instead within that platform.
So, kind of think of it like real estate where you might've
not been first in California but you can be first in Malibu and
so it's like neighborhood, you know, buying up neighborhoods
instead of buying up New York City.
The person, here's a great example there's a lot of people
that made money in Manhattan and New York but you could've been
the person that made money in Dumbo.
So the bottom line is this is continuing to happen.
Every person reading this article still can deploy this
exact strategy which is why I'm featuring it to all of you if
you are targeting 13 to 35-year-olds.
Yep.
I make decisions that are predicated on whether this
person is telling the truth or not, is relevant on making this
decision because of x.
I think when you actually have less
expectation of others,
there's an incredible life to be lived.
It's stunning how little I expect from others.
I take it as a pleasant surprise and as a positive when one does
the normal base thing that a human should do.
I think that most people start with way too high expectations
and then people disappoint them.
I go the reverse and thus it makes it easy for me so
I've never been really ever crippled by the
notion of is this person telling me the truth.
You want the real information, to me I'm a postgame guy.
If they're not telling the truth I'll deal with that later.
I'm not worried about it that moment.
Dwelling, overthinking slows you down and that becomes a problem.
That to me is the KPI, speed.
I think it's actually pretty easy to judge a speaker.
For example, I think I have substance but I have a lot of
motivational tendencies above it.
I also think it's important to see what they've done.
For example, you know, if they're actually, if she or he
is actually building businesses and they happen to be
motivational then you know that there's something happening in
their day job, right?
If they're just coming out the gate and saying,
"I'm a motivational guru," and only sell books and
only do seminars then that's what they do.
I've struggled with the notion
of this motivational thing.
I've got motivational tendencies but
I've been so proud of actually
building two very large tangible businesses.
Being an actual investor.
Making stuff happen.
So I think you just have to dissect the words and more
importantly words are only a very small part of the equation.
What are the actions outside of those words
I think really matter.
This is fancy.
- [Charlamagne] My brother, what's up, man?
- [Gary] Sup baby? - You good?
- [Gary] Really good.
Good to see you again. How are you?
- [Man] I'm feeling good.
- [Gary] Sup man? Good to see you.
How are you?
Sup man, how are you?
- [Charlamagne] Why do you say what I'm thinking?
Yeah, it seems like people like
you are saying what I'm going to do.
- Because I don't like counting fucking chickens, Cha.
Honestly, I've done well.
I've made it. I'm good.
I want to keep winning but I don't know.
Maybe I fall off, like I want to stay hungry.
I'm not ready to you know DRock's like,
"Hey this cabbie he knew who you were."
I'm like, "No, no he just saw that you were with you know with
"a camera with me."
I have big enough ego in me already I gotta make sure that
I have big enough humility to go
with it 'cause that's how you get somewhere.
Second you think you've won, somebody's gonna creep.
- [Charlamagne] Word up.
- That's so real. I'm scared of that.
Especially for as much shit as I talk, like I'm gonna buy the
Jets, I'm fuckin' suffocating myself.
Put myself in corner of never being able to let off.
So back to your question,
back to your question everybody's got their reality.
- [Charlamagne] Right.
- Everybody's got their reality.
My answer to this is, so I'm gonna give an answer that is
valuable to everybody listening and I'm gonna give the real
answer which is not as valuable.
The real answer is I don't fuckin' know.
The real answer is that guy needs to know himself.
Some people learn, if that guy knows himself and he knows he's
a good student and he doesn't have ambition to buy the
New York Jets and his ambition is to make $81,000 a year,
be on three softball teams, have good work-life balance,
get his one or two vacations a year,
not have a whole lot of stress,
well then school and go into the machine.
If he's like me and couldn't breathe in school, fuckin' hated
school, needs the action, fuckin' needs, fuckin' wants to
stick computers in his brain 'cause he needs action well then
he needs to just go and just do.
If he's looking for a lotto ticket make a business plan.
Business plans is the whack one on that.
Business plans is the bullshit, that's the marriage of the two
above that means nothing.
It's half-pregnant.
Business plans are bullshit in
today's world because you don't need them.
- [Charlamagne] Just do it. - [Gary] That's right.
Who the fuck are you pitching?
That old white dude doesn't matter any more.
Like what PowerPoint do you need to get, you know?
So, you know what that's called?
That's called someone being in a fantasy in their own mind.
And that's the person who says to their homies,
"I've got a business plan." - [Charlamagne] Right.
- That's just a proxy.
That's peacocking bullshit.
There is no business plan. Go do shit.
I've fought against that my whole life 'cause I think it's
the cheesy thing.
I don't want to be a motivational speaker,
weird conference halls.
Like that's weird but if I can be a businessman that has
motivational DNA, well, that's interesting because then what
the difference is I think a lot of motivational speakers just
keep wanting to go to the bottom.
They almost, like I basically want nobody to watch me.
I want people to consume my shit, get a couple ideas,
get pumped, and go do.
- [Charlamagne] GaryVee, ladies and gentlemen.
- Alright. Love you guys.
- [Charlamagne] Wait, you want to tell them where to find you?
- No.
- [Charlamagne] Alright. (laughter)
- [Man 2] Don't watch his videos, don't follow him.
- I want them to get inspired of something here and
go do something. (laughter)
Love you guys, thank you.
What'd you show?
- We showed the Apple Watch app.
- [Gary] Cheers.
- We showed the Apple Watch-- - [Gary] Yeah.
- [Ben] New notification center.
Which is like a major step forward in terms of...
(inaudible) actions and it leads to the watch.
And this is like all the alerts you can get on the watch.
I guess we're technically into Thursday.
Good stuff.
Good day for Resy.
Good day for a bunch of meetings.
Just met up with Sacca, my boy.
He's a shark. I like that.
It's good to see him.
Just good to put in another day's work.
Good solid day's work.
The work, it trumps everything.
It's the one non-debatable.
Can debate talent, you can debate luck.
You can debate circumstance,
you can't debate if somebody's putting in the work.
Not subjective mother fuckers.
You either put in the
15, 16, 18 hours of work.
It gives you the best position to succeed in what you're trying
to achieve or you don't.
So,
you can have opinions but you
can't debate the fucking data.
I think about putting in the work in the same way
I think about having the best product, right?
Like the best product just wins.
There's so much that is debatable.
Things that can't put your fingers on but
the market is the market is the market.
The market decides the best products and you the market
watch this and understand like look you can come up with all
your theories all you want putting in the fucking work.
By putting in the work.
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