- Somebody who makes $80,000 a year
being a blogger about basketball
is like being the 12th man on a team.
You made it to the League,
but you're not LeBron.
You're one of the best basketball players in the world,
but nobody knows who you are kind of thing.
There's no shame,
as a matter of fact,
the practicality of making $80,000 a year
being a blogger about basketball, 'cause you love it,
versus making $109,000 a year as a lawyer
is a great arbitrage for a lot of people.
It's the unlocking happiness.
Is your life better making $109,000 a year being a lawyer
versus making $80,000 a year
being a full-time basketball content provider.
I don't know people's situations.
You may have loans, you may have this,
but if you can afford it,
I promise you, you're gonna be way happier
doing the stuff that you wanna be doing.
And those are choices everybody has to make for themselves,
but when I say, "Not everybody's gonna be LeBron,"
I mean, "Not everybody's gonna be Mark Zuckerberg
"and Steve Jobs."
- [DRock] As an entrepreneur.
- That's right, got it?
- [DRock] But within their hobbies and their job
and making their career their hobby.
- That's right.
They can be the 17th, 19th,
there's a level of practicality
that's different for everyone
predicated on how fancy they wanna be.
Where's your happiness?
And where is the things you want that you need money for?
Where's that Mendoza Line?
There's a lot of people, for example,
right now, who are watching this,
who are doing well and making $200,000 a year,
but if they made 140, they'd be much happier.
Got it?
They start working,
the machine takes over,
that business eats them up.
A lot of people think that happens to me
when they don't understand me.
They don't get it.
I already won.
I've won.
I'm getting to play the game that I wanna play.
I don't need to make more.
It's not like I need to make more.
I need to make more because it means
that I'm succeeding in the game that I'm playing.
- [DRock] And that's where your patience comes in.
- Of course, I'm ultimately patient.
I've already won.
DRock, this game's vigged.
I already won.
I figured myself out, I know what makes me happy.
Nothing in the world makes me happier than being able...
And, by the way, this is for everybody.
Everybody is the happiest when they get to do
what they want to be doing.
When you get to do what you wanna do,
you've won.
That is the seductive nature of entrepreneurship,
because you have control.
There's no boss.
But the company can become your boss.
Overextending yourself and paying for your lifestyle
can become your boss.
Not paying attention to what makes you happy anymore
can become your boss.
And that's why I try to stay grounded in that stuff.
When people don't know me, and a video goes viral,
they're, like, "Oh, this guy's just gonna be miserable,
"'cause he just wants to make money."
You don't know me.
There's plenty of people that are miserable
that are home all day.
Misery doesn't come in the way you want to judge it.
Misery comes in the way that it is for that actual person,
and for me,
the time I get to spend with my family,
and then the fact that I get to spend a lot of time
playing the game that I wanna play,
is ultimate happiness.
I would suffocate and die
if I worked nine to six.
I wouldn't be happy.
Sorry that's not politically correct.
It's selfish.
I wanna work that six to nine
that so many of you go out to dinner with friends
or watch shows or play volleyball or a part of that.
That's what I'm doing.
It's just three more hours of work.
My meeting is your card club.
My meeting is your book club.
My meeting is your pool table night.
My meeting is your dart team.
My meeting is your going to the shore and surfing.
My meeting is your yoga.
You don't understand.
That's what makes me happy,
that's what makes me relaxed.
I get relaxed when I'm working.
I'm sorry I'm not wired like you.