– [Voiceover] Andrew wants to know, “Do you see skill sharing
and teaching people skills “as an alternative to education “coming up in the sharing economy?” – Andrew, I do. Very simply, the answer is yes. Very simply, I believe the Internet is gonna squeeze everything in the middle that doesn’t provide value out of business over a 100-year period, and so everything’s in the middle, really, between you and a thing, and the education system is in the middle between you and actually having the
next chapter of your life in play monetizing, if
you really think about it. At its grand scheme, you go to school, in theory, historically, the
way it’s been thought of, to set you up, to monetize your thing. I mean, as we know, so many people go through the schooling and then realize they don’t wanna be a lawyer or a doctor or whatever they’ve been learning to do, and they reset and they
go into the open market. I think that that needs
to be thought about. I think that really needs
to be thought about, and we’ve never lived in a time where, guys, at 30 years old, I began the first seed of thought that I should speak to
the world about something. That happened to be wine at the time. I mean, there wasn’t things
like this podcast, this show, or the billions of pieces of content that live now, that educate people at a level that we’ve never seen before. If there is anyone, if there is anyone that believes that unionized human beings and old textbooks can outperform education
of information and thinking to the vast majority of human
society and the Internet, then you are a lost human being. Lost. With a capital L. And so now what needs to happen is, some organization. Look, I actually believe
the following statement. I actually believe one
of the singular reasons that universities are in play is the romantic point of view that the parents of our current generation view on the institution, and I truly believe it’s going to take only two more generations. Not necessarily mine, but my kids have no prayer of valuing
Harvard and Stanford and a community college to the level it’s valued by my parents. No shot in hell, I’m putting it, and I don’t like to predict, but I’m putting it right here on film. Big ups to my little grandchildren that are watching this
now, 50 years from now. (all laughing)
Hey, little Sarah. I love you. And, you know. Actually, Sarah’s gonna
be so out of date by then. Hey, Zeruca, big fan. Hope we’re watching this together. So I think that, you know, the skill shares, the Khan Academies, the endless content on YouTube, the podcasts, the tremendous impact that all the content that’s living right now is
having on the younger generation and how they will think that they, right now we have 15-year-olds that think their two
cents on every thought are public domain, that they need to add their two cents. What do you think when
they become educated through school and not school, what they’re gonna share and how? It’s just gonna be so much information. Plus, our system right
now is so predicated on teaching our kids to memorize something and then regurgitate it
a couple of weeks later, in a world where all that information is at their fingertips. Nobody gives a shit who the 18th President of the United States is, or what’s the warmest planet. I can tell you in one
fucking second, you idiots.

So I audited myself, and I’m
taking in serious consideration that I just might be a two or a three. My question is, man, is if I am, do I need to go get my college degree? Like what, how do I put
myself in that position? Because I really don’t know how to, I only know how to make doors. I don’t know how to walk through them, if you know what I mean, and ya know I’m all EQ and no IQ, so if
I have to go get my degree, that’s gonna suck. – Charlie, great question. I’m super into this. I think if you’ve audited yourself and you feel like, ya know, you need to have, you
need to attach yourself to a leader, a CEO, a
number one, a founder, and you can be a supporting cast member because I guess making doors
not walking through them maybe you, I don’t know, but maybe you understand
the tangible execution, not the architecture. Maybe you’re the greatest
mason in the world, and you need just a really solid
architect to be successful. I would say it has nothing
to do with getting a diploma. It has everything to do with if you’ve been auditing yourself, and you started with,
“I’ve audited myself,” which I appreciate, and you know, for anybody who’s watching this who doesn’t understand auditing themselves and I’m a number two or three, these are themes that
I’ve been talking about in the first 105, 106 episodes of the show which is if you know yourself,
you have self-awareness, you have a real chance to succeed. I would tell you, Charlie,
that you don’t need to get a degree unless
you wanna go latch up to a number one that values that degree, and the truth is you’ve
already lost that game because if that number one values it, they’re gonna wanna go with
somebody who’s got a degree from clearly, in my opinion,
based on the vibe of the video, comes from a better school
than you would go to. Take it from me, I mean
Mount Ida College isn’t like rolling up any like
unbelievable excitement for anybody who’s an educator. And so I would tell you your journey, your focus should be finding a number one who shares your DNA and philosophy. You guys can be similar, and
she could just be an architect and an incredibly strong leader, where you could be that support system. So find her, find him, find the number one that is the match to you. Not find the number one
that you clearly think society has created. To me, more number ones
actually look like you on paper, so I actually think you’ll
be able to find that. I think number twos, when
they’re not the straight man or the straight woman,
when there’s still also a little bit of magic,
a little EQ over IQ, make great number twos. I still think one and two
in that play is great. I think three, four, five,
six, somewhere along the line, you need that straight,
really straight person, and so your job is to really go out and find that person. Find that number one that
matches your skill set, that matches your philosophy,
that you can really jam with. Find your number one.

– [Voiceover] Joe asks,
“What advice would you give “a high school senior in America “trying to decide
whether to go to college, “and if so, which one?” – Joe I’m gonna let
Casey answer this first, just cause I think it’d be fun to have you start off the show. – Yeah no, I’ve got a strong feeling about further education, which is that I think in life you should
only be doing two things ever, and one is like discovering
what your passion is, and then two is realizing it. So Joe, if you know what you want to do, and you’re convicted that’s
where you want to be in life, and that trajectory does not necessitate a college education, then skip it. Chances are you don’t
know what you want to do, otherwise you wouldn’t be
asking us this question, and if you don’t know what you want to do your responsibility is to figure that out, and college is one of the best places, one of the best atmospheres, environments you can be in to figure out
what your calling is in life, to figure out what your passion
is, what your purpose is. – Joe, I’m gonna jump in here, as the cars are racing outside, and say this, I agree with
a ton of what Casey said, I’ll also add that if you’re
taking $200,000 in debt to find your passion, that
might be a practical kind of, by the way, debt that you can’t even declare bankruptcy
against, which complete, I mean, I can’t even, I’m suffocated by the game, the AK racket
that is student loans, and today in today’s environment, things that you and I didn’t have. There are other places where
young people congregate, and pound into each
other in the serendipity of finding those mentors,
or contemporaries that allow people to discover. So look, I think one thing for sure, it’s fun, entrepreneur, I look at you as an entrepreneurial
artist, but I look at you way more artistic than I me. So, call it entrepreneur, artist, boy there’s a lot of
rationale in the 2015 world where college is not the right answer, and I think, you know what’s
really been unique to me, Joe, is I’m gonna give you a weird answer. I acctually find that there’s
an enormous amount of kids, and I’m spending a lot
of time on this topic since I was a shit student, and have made something of myself, that a lot of kids are still just going to college, just making that decision on not wanting to disappoint their
parents, and that to me is maybe the most
fascinating thing goin’ on is that father of five and a two year old living on the Upper East Side
with elite private schools where I’m paying college tuition
for kindergarten already, it’s been funny to me,
cause I’m really poking and prodding the parents that are my new contemporaries to
see how much pressure, and they have not switched yet. The reason I keep talking about college in a world where a lot of my
friends talk about its demise as more of a 20 year
thing than a 10 year thing is cause I still think
parents of my generation still value it too much
for their own self esteem. They want to say their
kids went to Stanford, and Harvard, and things of that nature. So look, you’ve got to
make your own decision, but I’m with you, like discovering it, and then I’d be curious, now
I’m like mixing up the show, what do you think about
this based on your answer. Because your answer is my answer, and there’s one other part
that I’m trying to figure out. I’m a big fan of practicality. I think you and I got lucky that not only were we able to figure out our passion, but we actually had some
level of talent within it. There’s a lot of people,
a lot of the people that go and try out for American Idol, or the wannabe NBA players. What’s your point of view on Joe figuring out his passion is to paint, but he sucks shit at it? – Well, you know, I think that anyone’s life, your world always shrinks and expands in proportion
to your willingness to take risk, or try new things. And that’s why I think that
like an academic environment is a great place for trying new things and experimenting with new things. So, if your passion is painting, and you’re a terrible painter, then maybe being in an
environment like college will open your eyes to
something like graphic design which doesn’t involve a paint brush, but you can make a great living at it, and you’re realizing an artistic passion that is certainly inline with painting. – Do you think that then one needs to be challenged to make sure they go into the funnel of college to recognize they’re not there to check those boxes? Because the way you play the game actually has as much to
do with the game, right. If you hack college in the way
that you’re talking about it, you know, now you’re
starting to think about, you know, course selection,
you’re talking about the kind of group of friends
that you’re spending time with. – Yeah, but I think college is, can be a total waste of time and money if not approached carefully,
and I think a lot of kids today go there for a lot of the wrong reasons like what you’re suggesting,
and certainly if there are better, other opportunities that feel better to you than college, I think now today, those
opportunities are… – Way more practical. – Are as practical as
an academic education. I can tell you that a big falsehood is that by going to college,
you will get something else. You will find success. And one thing that’s
becoming more and more true, especially as technology is opening up all new means of
transmission of information, is that if there were a
defined path to success, especially in any sort
of creative endeavor, everyone would just
follow that defined path. There is no defined path. And college can be a great way to help you find one of those paths, but it is certainly not the only way, and it’s certainly not a guarantee that you’ll find that trajectory. – Yep, let’s move on.

– [Voiceover] BlueArcher
ask, “If you could create “or teach your own college
or high school course, “what would the name of the class be “and how would you teach it?” – (laughs) This is a great question. First of all, this is really fun, like I thought all the Instagram photos are just gonna be somebody
holding up a sign, like the rules, I didn’t realize so many people, like that little jab
on the rules, I didn’t, by the way, VaynerNation, you
are not following the rules, like the whole, like, sign
thing is not happening, but let’s do it one more time. Here’s how you get your answer, but obviously ’cause some of you are getting through with
your non-following the rules, the answer is you guys are
all gonna continue to do this, but the whole, like,
imposing me into the photo is phenomenal, didn’t see that coming. Good job with you guys. My course would be called (laughs) Oh my god, this is such a funny thing. I mean, my course would
literally be called “Why You Shouldn’t Have Signed Up “for this Course in the First Place, “taught by Gary Vaynerchuk.” and it would talk about the disconnect between where school is and where the real world is right now, how, I would try to
teach, more than anything, for people not to take my words
and try to regurgitate them. And look, it’s almost what I’m trying, I mean, I’m teaching my course
right now with #AskGaryVee. My big thing here, guys, is, and I raz the VaynerNation
once in a while, so in this short episode,
it feels appropriate. Way too many of you are just
regurgitating what I’m saying instead of actually doing it. Boy, do I love all of you that
hearted up my Hustle picture on Instagram the other day. Let’s put that up. And then when I looked at,
like, seven or eight people, they just see how they were hustling ’cause I keep doing it, I keep, VaynerNation, understand one thing. I take enormous pride in
double checking your actions while you regurgitate my hyperbole. Let me tell you why. It’s not ’cause I’m the best dude ever. It’s because if my fans that spew my stuff aren’t actually acting
on my recommendation, which is putting in the
work, doing the right things, listening to their audience,
working, hustling, trying, doing the right practices, not automating, well then, when people,
like, if you post a photo, regram it, and like, hustle, but you’re playing Call of Duty all day, then all your friends on Instagram, the 97 people are like,
“Well, that’s just a guy “that spews hyperbole because
if you love him so much “but you aren’t doing it, “well then, that just disconnects.” So, one of the main reasons
I’m paying attention to what everybody is doing is because if the people
that are consuming my content and retweeting and pushing out my stuff are not acting on that behavior, that has a chance of hurting me. You know how fun it’s been over
the last four or five months ’cause of the show because
of the zinging that you, many of the people that have
commented on every episode have emailed me and said, “You know what? “I haven’t actually been doing it,” like, I’m talking the talk,
but I’m not walking the walk. That’s been really fun
for me to watch, and so, I forgot the question. Oh, it’s the course, right? (laughs) I mean, look, the course would be, like, listen to everything
I’m gonna tell you about the disconnect between
school and the real world from a marketing business standpoint. I know you could be a lawyer or a doctor, you need to learn that
stuff, I respect that, but from like entrepreneur business stuff and the whole course
would be eight to 12 weeks of me pounding you not to
regurgitate my information, but to act on it. Over here, I’m over here now DRock. You need to act on it. You need to actually execute. You can’t say hustle and then not hustle. You can’t say, and this is the, the hustle part, a lot of you are doing. Here’s the part that really pisses me off. All of you that retweeted
my whole listen to people instead of just talk, you
need to engage, right? And the other thing is a lot of you are engaging with each
other, which is great. I love that, like, 20 of you
become really good friends and retweet each other
and heart everything, but go out there and use
search on Twitter, right? Try different things. Go write articles on Medium. I can’t believe how many of you who are not writing articles on Medium, the one platform that rewards virality to people that have no audience, the far majority of
you, you should be what? We’re hustling Medium every day and I have awareness because it’s giving me
more free awareness. Guys, Medium is a platform that allows you if you write a good story for one of their editors
to put on the home page and all of a sudden, you got a platform and a couple of you have done
it, and we’ve pounded here, and you see me doing it. That’s the part that pisses me off. You see me doing it heavy. Plenty of you have asked the, “Hey, AskGaryVee, why
do you post up on Medium “and not your own blog?” Because it brings me, just so everybody understands, I will never do anything
if it doesn’t bring me either short-term or long-term value, so if I’m doing it, don’t you think you should be paying attention
a little more, the why. And so, my course would be very, (chuckle) bring you back. My course will be very predicated on: Here’s all the advice, but
please don’t be a student. Be a practitioner.

“for professors to engage college students “in the classroom? What
about outside of class?” – Rich, I think the biggest
thing for you and any professor out there, or if
you’re asking for somebody is that professors aren’t relevant to a lot of their students
today, more than ever, because the behaviors of
how we act aren’t mapping, meaning so many people have emailed me like, literally because of
this show, emailed me that, “Hey I’m in class right
now, and what my professor’s “talking about makes
no sense, compared to. “I’m listening to your podcast right now “while my professor’s talking
because he or she are so.” And literally professors
in major universities that are putting kids in debt right now are telling them that there
is no ROI in social media, like ludicrous horsecrap,
I’m on this crap kick. Anyway, I think the biggest
thing a professor can do is to be relevant with them. If you’re a professor right
now, and especially if you’re a marketing or comms professor right now, and you’re not jamming
on YikYak and Snapchat and the Insta, then you’re
making a huge mistake because you’re out of
touch with your students. You’re saying dumb shit like,
“Hey kids, hey students, “we’re gonna connect
through modern things like.” It can’t even come out of
my mouth, I’m so disgusted with what’s going on in
universities across this country and so it’s relevance,
there is eye rolling and checking the (beep)
out going on in classrooms all across this country and it’s sad because of the romance of how
professors think it should be versus the reality of what it’s like.

“social media marketer. “Is it worth doing a course on it “when I’m applying for jobs?” – Maurizio, you know it’s
an interesting question. I’m self-taught. I didn’t take any courses in social media. I think it’s done okay for me. But in general, I’m not
a good student either. I never took a real substantial course in business or marketing either and that’s worked out all right for me. I think this is an answer
that really matters based on being self aware. I think if you find yourself as somebody who, in general, being a
self-taught social media expert, in general, I’m cynical to that. I think 99% of you are clowns and are just reading headlines and are not practitioners
and don’t go deep. I’m even scared of you taking a course because most of the courses I’ve seen when I’ve come and spoke at that class, when I vetted the teacher through the, them interviewing me process, I’ve realized they were clowns. So in a whole Ringling Brothers
and Barnum & Bailey Circus kind of environment, it all scares me. I would tell you the thing
that most matters to me is to become the most surgical deepest knowledgeable practitioner you can be. But I can’t really answer this for you. There’s too many variables. One, are the courses good? Two, are you the type
that actually can learn in that environment? I can’t. On the flip side, by being a practitioner, that’s the best way I learn. So that’s a whole lot of ego and bravado and I apologize for all
my listeners on iTunes that aren’t used to this but
I’m just spitting the truth. Social media right now is in
a very awkward early stage. If you go back and look at
the early internet marketers of 1995, six, seven, eight, nine, they were spewing a lot of crap as well. So it’s a difficult time. I would say this, in five years I’d feel a hell of a lot more comfortable
you taking that course. – [Steve] Chase asks “On an average day,

when you say, even though you say, marketers ruin everything.
– I’m a marketer. – If not, then what should I pursue in regards to my career? ‘Cause I really want to work in marketing but approach it differently
than it’s been done in the past several years. – Giann, first and foremost, I like how you were reading
some sort of card over here. I’d eliminate that from your game but I’m not razzing. Marketers do ruin everything and I’m a proud and happy marketer. So, don’t take that literally. I think you should pursue marketing and I love that you’re trying to, look the fact that you even know who I am and are asking a question
on the #AskGaryVee show, believe it not, makes me think
you’re gonna be successful. And, what I would recommend, is the degree’s nice and all, but I would highly recommend
if you’re still in university, to intern at the places that
you most think are innovating. I mean, when I think
about the last two classes of VaynerMedia interns and the fact how many of them get hired
into this organization and how great VaynerMedia is as an organization by comparison to the other people that are marketing as agencies out there and
I really believe that. I think they were very smart, strategic, and made the right move. I would give you the same recommendation. Get into the walls that
you most believe in and you should market in a different way and 99% of the places right now won’t allow you to do that so find the other five,
six, seven, 10 places that look like this place which will create the
culture to allow that.

of being a Youtuber with
parents’ vision of getting a university degree? – There’s a very simple answer. Most people say, what college
did you graduate from? Not what was your GPA. So you should easily be
able to become a solid D student or C or whatever
it’s needed to graduate, which should give you the
flexibility to become a massive Youtube sensation. – [Voiceover] Chelsea asks,
what are your thoughts about