- Hey guys.
I'm underneath Gary Vee's desk.
Everyone always sits at the desk,
so I thought I would give the intro under his desk.
Because that's fun.
What's up everybody.
Peter McKinnon here.
Welcome back to another Two Minute Tuesday.
It's so great to have you here and
see all of your smiling faces.
This is a special episode of Two Minute Tuesday.
We're going to call it...
We're going to call it Tough Love Tuesday,
because I'm with Gary Vee.
You know he's the man for tough love,
so we're going to have him spit some truth.
That sounds kind of modern and something
fun that he would be into.
I want to specifically run something by him that almost
stopped me from becoming a YouTuber in general,
and I want to see what his thoughts are on it.
So, get ready because it's about to,
it's about to get real.
Alright, I'm going to...
See ya later.
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Okay, special edition of Two Minute Tuesday today.
I'm actually going to call it Tough Love Tuesday.
If you recognize the background at all,
you'll know that I'm in Gary Vee's office.
If you don't know who Gary Vee is,
pause immediately, research, use Google.
Do what you have to do.
Come back I'll wait.
Welcome back.
Now you're up to speed.
I usually give the most endearing,
inspirational kind of, kind of a meaningful
message that I can to inspire you guys to do what you love.
But sometimes it takes a little more,
and he's the perfect guy to do this.
Let's throw two minutes on the clock.
Not that we're going to stick to it,
because that kind of seems to be the theme here.
But we'll do our best.
Okay.
So Gary, this is the question.
This is what I want some knowledge on.
- Yes.
- Before I started YouTube.
Before like this kind of whole
career of mine kind of exploded.
All of my friends, or a good portion of them,
all said to me don't bother with YouTube.
It's way too saturated.
You've missed the train.
You're nearly 30 you should probably focus on something that
actually has a longevity with regards to a career.
Something practical, something that you're
actually going to sustain and support a family with.
You've missed the boat.
Was the key word, you've missed the boat?
- [Gary] Yes.
- So I'd love for you to just give me like two minutes.
I'm going to time you.
Two minutes of why you think that's, that's bull.
- So it's funny to me, you know,
it's not necessarily like bull or not bull.
I think first of all the number one
thing I would tell every single person watching this.
Pay very close attention to who's giving you the advice.
My guess was the friends that were giving you that
advice were the ones that gave up on their
ambition and offense at that point of their life.
Subconscious bias.
It's not like they're bad people.
The misery loves company thing,
is not evil it's subconscious.
I would argue that YouTube and going after a career
as a influencer on Instagram, YouTube or Facebook or Twitter
right now in 2017, 18, 19, is actually way more practical
than most people realize.
I just don't think your friends are that smart.
When I say that smart I mean in a very narrow thing.
They might be geniuses at baking cookies.
They might be incredible math magicians,
but when people speak about opportunity on YouTube.
When it's still grossly under priced.
Or Facebook, or Instagram, or Podcast.
They're not experts in communication.
Brother.
- [Peter] Yeah.
- They're not experts in communication.
- Yeah, 100 percent.
- Like when I tell you something about the New York Jets.
It's a good idea to listen to me.
When I tell you something about radishes.
Bad idea.
Pay the attention to who's giving you the advice.
Who's giving the advice,
and more importantly if you live your life where you're
comfortable taking somebody else's point of view on how you
should live your life you deserve to lose.
So it's bull, because your friends aren't experts at comps.
It's bull, because when you listen
to outside voices you're always going to regret it.
My question's very simple.
Would you rather appease the inconvenience
right now in the short term,
or do you want to sit around as a
78 year old and regret how you live your life?
That's the basic question.
Are you willing to take the short term lack of pain
by conforming to the system?
Or do you actually want to do something with your life?
Because this internet thing.
The fact that there's three cameras in this room right now.
The fact that a million people
almost on Instagram follow you.
This is available.
There's so much abundance in this system.
Everybody can get there's.
Some will get billions.
Some will get millions.
Some will will get hundreds of thousands,
but wouldn't you rather make 87 thousand dollars a year
talking about Star Wars because you
love it more than breathing?
Than make a hundred nine being a accountant for that firm?
- [Peter] Love it.
That was amazing.
I'm so pumped right now.
That was so good.
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