- Doing good for other people is a good strategy.
("Unstoppable" by This Is Wolff)
("Beautiful Day" by Davon ft Eric Wortham II)
I would say this is my current POV because
I think it's actually important that I have a different answer
for this at 50 and 60 because you can adjust to the reality.
I'll give you a good example.
If something terrible happens in my life and it's disease based
or it's because some kid was texting while he was driving and
hit my dad those will become things that I want to leave a
legacy about 'cause that's
just how we act as humans, right?
They become your truths.
But, no question, this will never go away.
I want to do the following,
I'm fascinated by the same thing
that attracts so many of millions of people
to people that are selling bullshit,
those same people are attracted to me.
And what I want to do is suffocate out all those other
people and become the alpha of that entire world of people that
are hoping and are desperate
to look at me and what I want to do
is inspire two 14-year-old girls in Kansas City right now to
build a billion-dollar company on having a bunch of employees
hugging each other in the halls.
I want to build the biggest building in town ever by just
building the biggest building in town while I think most people
try to tear down everybody else's building.
So I think positivity and good is practical advice to building
an empire and I want to be the poster child of the person that
built the biggest baddest empire and did it by being
a good dude along the way.
We're trying to help our leaders become better businesspeople
'cause I believe in them.
Lindsay, right, you get to work with at Vayner Talent,
she knows what she's doing and she runs a tight P&L but
then I'm always trying to break it.
It's a matrix for them, right?
'Cause when they sit with Alan at Chief Financial,
they're trying to run a business but then I'll come over the top
and be like, "No. This is working to hire more
"and you're gonna have a negative P&L this year."
But they're like, "But Alan,"
I'm like, "Fucking Alan works for me."
It's a whole thing.
It's a whole thing but it's been great 'cause we're back to
pushing from opposite directions.
I'm seeing it, right?
I'm letting the company do it's thing but I'm a force that's
equal to the company of magic, right?
And I'm pushing, now start to really figure it out.
I'm kinda like almost weirdly separating them.
I'm even thinking things of like Gary tax, right?
And basically, that's just offense, right?
That's Lindsay saying hey I really see it,
I want to go for it.
And I'm like cool, Gary tax it.
And so what that would mean is that she can still run the
business or her division properly,
subtract the weird things I did dollars-wise and
then see if she's running an actual business.
I'm going to a secret meeting and I'll see you guys later.
Because what was happening was the leaders were all under Gary
tax and they didn't know how to run a business.
Because my halo of being able to create top line revenue
protected all their inabilities and as we scale I want to give
them other opportunities I needed them to be able
to be capable outside of magic.
Like that fuck face back there, Michael Jordan,
he solved all of BJ Armstrong's problems.
He made up for Horace Grant's shortcomings.
When he wasn't there, Bulls weren't good anymore.
And so, I need to make sure that when I'm not coming over the top
and fixing everything with my magic that they actually know
how to do something so that my magic is
added value not what keeps us alive.
Got it? - Yeah, yeah. For sure.
- That's cool.
- Alright, there's one thing that I have to...
- I've never talked about that before.
Karma is practical.
I love how people think karma is like this weird thing.
Doing good for other people a good strategy.
You know, I've been trying.
I'm like why does this thing even exist?
It's actually the most common sense thing of all time.
Why does karma seem weird?
The fuck is karma?
Like wait a minute, so you're telling me if you do lots of
good things that weirdly good things happen to you.
Yeah, that seems like common sense.
Heading out. Big day tomorrow.
All good stuff. See ya, DRock.
("Beautiful Day" by Davon ft Eric Wortham II)
I always say if you want to be an anomaly
you have to act like one.
People want all these special things to happen but then
they're acting like everybody else.
And that gets into the Saturdays in your 20's or just like taking
risk or things of that nature.
I totally agree with you.
I think about it as, you know that picture where it looks like
two people kissing or it looks like a glass of champagne?
I just basically think at this point in my business life,
the world sees the glass of champagne and
I see the two people kissing.
("Beautiful Day" by Davon ft Eric Wortham II)