you know I mean of course we've gotten
soft as a culture in the u.s. because
the US has had an incredible 200 year run right like this is just what happens you know so as a culture you know I
can't speak for you know people that live in the Amazon River and I can't speak for you know people that
still live in Belarus but the American culture is soft and that's a great thing that means there's been enormous amounts of prosperity but
let's not be naive
I mean people literally complain when
somebody gives them the wrong amount of
like extra cream in a Starbucks $6
coffee like this is like we've gotten to
a place where we complain you know out
of all those lovely things you said as I
stood there getting ready we come the
part that and I'm glad you pick up on
this and not a lot of people have said
it before so thank you my lack of
interest in complaining is so high and
when I watch what people complain about
it breaks my heart because they
completely lack perspective and I
genuinely believed my happiness and
optimism comes from my perspective I
even in political unrest times like
right now a lot of people very bent out
of shape but the reality is is that it
just never been better to be a human
being it's that's just the truth that's
just data that's that's reality and yeah
I mean it's just a very fun time to be
alive so much going on the internet is
starting to hit maturity look what we're
doing right now
this way now right would have cost
millions of dollars in production and
distribution to have the amount of
people who watch this just 15 years ago
like you know I just think it's very
interesting times and I was saying
something to a friend the other day I
was like could you imagine if you told a
parent 15 years ago
hey parent what you're gonna want to do
in 15 years instead of buying a kid your
16 year old a car you're gonna convince
your 16 year-old daughter to go into a
stranger's car every single day you're
gonna you're gonna pay for your
sixteen-year-old daughter to go into a
stranger's car every single day and
you'll think that's normal and actually
safer than buying that purse that kid a
car that's literally what we're living
in now high net worth individuals in
America
are preferring to give their kids
unlimited uber to buying a car because
because they don't want them drinking
and driving they don't trust are driving
in and literally they think it's safer
for their 16 17 year old to go into a
stranger's car than to drive themselves
that's sacrilege 15 years ago online
dating 20 years ago the weirdest
nerdiest you're thinking 300 pound white
dude in a basement of a kid's car now
it's just completely standard I mean if
you if you add in sliding into people's
DM on Instagram it's like 89 percent of
relationships right so you know I I
think that we are I think we're going
through a huge transition because all of
us even thought leaders are grossly
under estimating the internet itself and
we're hitting scale right we now all are
on at all times and this is now the
beginning I was joking was working out
this morning to d-roc I'm like dear Rach
you're gonna get replaced by like a
Pokemon ball like I'm gonna throw it up
like people in 20 years are literally
gonna throw something up they're just
gonna hover 360 and film everything
they're doing I mean like it's just an
incredible time and I think the way
people look at the world right now
because it's such an incredible time is
actually the quickest tell to who they
are if you think it sucks but it's bad
you have losing pessimistic DNA and if
you think it's awesome and phenomenal
you have optimistic winning DNA and I
believe that to be true and so that's
where at there's a lot of push towards
being a workaholic and hard work as a
learned behavior I see it in my team
there's people that come into my I've
seen it in the thousands of employees
I've had which is the closer they are to
the Sun the harder they work and I'm
like aha and so I definitely feel like I
learned hard work by watching my parents
and so it's why I talk so much about
hustle because it's one of the things
that people can actually adjust and turn
to I watch people give advice completely
predicated on natural talent and DNA and
I'm like look like I get it like I can
throw a football every day for nine
hours a day
I'm just not physically built to be
competitive at the highest levels so
yeah I do think you know if anybody
watching right
if there's anything they take away it's
like look like you're gonna only be so
pretty you're only gonna be so smart
like you like that there's there's
things that are gonna land there's
things that you can actually control I
do believe and I don't know if I'm right
or wrong I don't but I do believe that
work ethic is a taught behavior it's
something you do have more control over
and yeah I think you know I think and
you know what really sealed the deal for
me getting healthier I was 38 years old
and he didn't come natural to me like it
didn't come natural to me at all I hate
the gym I hate it now I hate it I don't
like it I don't want to do it but I but
I knew it was important and somewhere
around
midway through being 38 years old I got
serious I figured out my system I made
the financial commitment and I've won
right and I'll never lose again because
the system was I needed to be
accountable to another human being so it
was about Mike and now Jordan and
whoever else is my trainer I'm doing it
almost weirdly more to not let them down
then too and so that was the shift and
so I feel like there's a shift that can
make people work harder the big one that
I push is you're gonna die like like if
your complaint like to me life is broken
down into complaining and not so if
you're not complaining well then I've
never I have no advice for you but I'm
pumped like you did it like like I've
friends who make $42,000 a year work
9:00 to 4:00 kind of with an hour and a
half lunch and 45 minutes of YouTube and
ten minutes of bullshitting and an hour
of complete waste of time in a meeting
so the kind of working like six you know
hours a week right but but but they're
pumped and and and they text me these
are high school friends and they'll text
me like how happy they are to be the
coach of their kids baseball team and
you know like that's amazing like that
that seems very obvious to me like
that's like that's right like you know
what's super weird I'm actually merely
envious you know like I sounds cool like
in theory right grass is always greener
right like far less pressure you know
like like all that time with my kids
who've that would be cool like there's
just like all these things that I can
justify so
me but I have friends who have a hundred
million dollars in the bank because of
Facebook's IPO who complain who are
still hungry who want to do even more
who will complain to me because they
know I work a lot about no work-life
balance and they don't get to spend
enough time with their family and I'm
like you have a hundred million dollars
like you could stay home like you're in
control like you don't complain about it
you've made that choice don't bullshit
me like you want to spend more time with
your family spend more time with your
family this is back to what we said
about keyboard warriors I'm trying to be
very careful about what I'm saying
versus what I'm doing because that's how
you get exposed and I don't mean like
people calling you out and being like
you suck I mean to yourself I don't want
to be exposed by myself it's it's it's
looking yourself in the mirror and
saying like am I doing this right so to
me there's so many people there talking
about how big of an entrepreneur they're
gonna be and how much they're gonna
achieve and they don't work on weekends
you know I worked every Saturday of my
20s like and I talked to 20 year old
entrepreneurs every single day lately
I've been saying to them this Saturday
you're gonna have more time off than
I've had in my entire twenties on a
Saturday so like before you tell me how
you're gonna be bigger than me start
thinking about what you're actually
doing right we're beating ourselves up
like everybody sucks at something right
like we all have shortcomings and we all
have strengths and for me it's like why
don't we just audit that like why don't
we just look at it that way and be like
alright well I'm good at this but I'm
not good at that like and then and then
and then I only focus what I'm good at
right like I don't dwell that I can't
fix it around the house I call somebody
to fix it like I'm not like I'm not a
man I don't give like you know like like
you know like I don't I don't get it
like we all like I also think it's
awesome that I'm so emotionally stable
and I'm the emotional backbone of
everybody is that what a dude's supposed
to do like like these cliches these
stereotypes they're so silly talk to me
about how your mom played into that cuz
at onso I know your mom you've credited
her with really helping to build your
self-esteem but you're also a huge
believer in like don't fool yourself
don't tell yourself you go to something
you're not so how did she make you feel
so good about yourself
she lost drugs that's a great great
that's a very you're doing a good job
here thank you sir that's a very know
it's a very good way to ask it because
the truth is she strategically used
bullsh and real what I think in
hindsight she did was she over
emphasized things that were subjective
or good so she really never forget this
I opened the door for a woman in
McDonald's in Edison New Jersey
literally like when I was eight just you
know we were both walking with a little
head and I opened it and let her walk
through if I tell you that my mom
basically treated that event like I won
the Nobel Peace Prize for like three
weeks
but but think about how smart that is
like think about how reinforcing that
played out played out so much that one
of the most interesting comments in the
250 blogs that I've done was I got an
email from somebody who said hey Gary
Vee you know this is this comes like hey
at first I thought like a you know and
then I got into it a little bit now I
was watching this vlog and then the
other day you really you nailed it home
and I'm like you know I'm reading I'm
like I can't wait to see what I did he's
like you went into the elevator and you
let all your employees go first and you
know it's just so interesting right
these subtle little things it's a point
it's so fascinating what matters to
people and I get it like I actually
think that's right but it's so weaving
into me at this point I don't even I
don't recognize that that's what she did
well she made she made big deals out of
the things that were tried and true and
then and then when I got these and F's
she punished me even though she knew I
didn't need school in her heart she made
me know that there was accountability
for things so I would lose television
and video game and friends privileges
for it would always be for a month
she'd break down somewhere around day 14
13 my sister would tattle on me when I
was sneaking TV was a funny it was a
sitcom in itself the three of us she she
she really made me feel special man she
really did it right she really really
really pounded home
my EQ my kindness I've done it with
Xander - he went to the playground when
he was two we're at the playground a
little three-year-old kid falls and
skids his knee and he walked over and
was like are you okay and I made that
like a two-week thing right like empathy
right and so and so she just she just
really did a good job of making me feel
good about the things that were around
my kindness and my support of my sister
and my leadership skills and my friends
and taking the you know I took a bullet
once for something my friend did in the
neighborhood and she thought that was a
good thing and just just kind of those
personality traits that I think you know
we all if all of us everybody watching
wrote down like personality traits that
we admire any time I showed any of those
actions she drove them home and I think
modern-day parents and most parents do
not do that
I think they focus on dumb shit like
grades because they are insecure and
they want to put the bumper sticker that
their kid went to you know Stanford like
it's real up when you really think about
what's actually happening so much of it
as misery loves company or people
reflecting of what's inside of them
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