– [India] What is the most important lesson you
learned from Mike? – What is the most important
that I’ve learned from Mike? That I very much appreciate
people who are consistent and are willing to grind in the
way that I like to roll and it’s very important to me to level
up everybody that surrounds me. Because every minute counts,
quality counts, for Mike not to miss a single day including the
one time Mike actually got drunk for the second time in his life
literally came in drunk, dead, finished and just laid in
the gym while I worked out. Like laid, like a baby. Like a 20-year-old frat guy crushed from the night before. Like on the ground. I think he got drunk at Nate
and Trouty’s house, by the way, which is the funniest part. I appreciate, that I am a fan of,
I’d love to say that I only talk about what I believe in
that when I see it in somebody else it’s extremely valuable and
reinforces the tried and true. Two years the guy
never missed a single day. Came through every time. Didn’t miss a single flight. And really did a tremendous job. That consistency does matter and
I know I do it but feeling it on the other hand was
very, very rewarding. And I’m going to miss Mike a
lot over the next several weeks he’ll be around with Jordan
transition stuff but it is quite emotional for me. – [India] It is emotional.
– Yeah. – [India] From Jordan–
– Not the new Jordan.

Good luck with your book. Today we’ll be right in there
in London for the event. If you don’t have
your ticket, get them. Here is my question. Daily Vee is giving us big insight into how unpredictable
your day can be. How crazy it is. Do you have an pillars? Any consistent things
you do everyday? Do make sure you do everyday
to keep you on track? – The only thing that I can say that I consistently do is wake up, take my phone
and go poop. It’s truly the only 100%, I don’t know if that
means I’m balanced or whatever that means
in that weird world. It’s the only thing
that always happens. And I like it because ironically I like it. for the weirdest reason because I don’t want to poop during the middle of the day. I’m pumped that I don’t waste. And by the way I like
to poop for a long time. Like I don’t go in like I’m
not a utilitarian pooper. I’m like 15, 20 minutes. Like the phone
really get in it. You know, work. So I like I actually don’t
like pooping in public. – [India] You mean like
in a public bathroom? – At VaynerMedia. – [India] Oh yeah.
No one likes pooping here. – I mean it’s just
not fun to poop with other people there. – [India] It sucks. – That’s why I like
European airports. They have like really private stalls by comparison. Something the US could
really learn can use some more
private pooping places. – [India] I agree. – So that’s the only
thing I do consistently. I would say I work
out now every day. That kind of starts my day. So I know that
was a little weird but that’s the truth. I don’t know what
we’ve learned from that. Probably not that
much so I apologize, VN. – [India] A morning
that’s been consistent.

“what’s the smallest routine “that’s made the biggest difference “to the #AskGaryVee Show since starting?” – Uh, the friction between consistency and constantly trying to evolve. Now, you know, obviously
like the show yesterday, outside, not asking a question of the day, now bringing back the question of the day, India coming in somewhere along the line instead of Stunwin, and probably more things
that will continue if we’re lucky enough to have a run here. There’s the consistency of doing it, and really letting the
essence of the show happen. You know, what’s really interesting is if you look, for all of
you that have watched, and by the way, leave a comment if you’ve watched every episode. Actually, I might wanna do a pic, where’s the pumpkin? Left already? We’ll tell you about it later. There’s obviously a lot of themes. I’m not gonna change my pillars or religious points of view on things, but the reinforcement,
it’s been interesting. I’ve been getting emails lately that say, “you know, Gary, it’s funny, I’ve watched all 160 episodes and this theme has really
caught my attention, but it took me hearing
you answer a question, maybe 15 different questions,
with the same theme, different answers, the same theme, it really now just hit me. Like, wow, I really now
understand what you mean of ‘execution’s the game, idea’s shit.’ Of course, ideas aren’t shit, but boy, everybody’s got an idea.” Things like that, and so I think the consistency of doing it, the consistency of there being four to 15 things I believe in, hard work, you know, not being romantic about the current state of the marketplace and always putting
yourself out of business, being 51-49 to the other person, so just actually being authentic enough that you know yourself, that
your answers align in that way, and then just making
it interesting and fun, and different settings, the outside energy mixed
up with being in my office, the predictions at the end of the show, those will go away after
the football season. So, you know, just mixing it up, so putting pressure on the format while letting the essence
always be the same. Being the same person even
though you grow up and mature and maybe change your
outfits, grow facial hair, get older, start losing hair, but still always being that same person, but evolving with the times. (muffled applause)

– Joe.
– [India] “In a tactic-obsessed world, “how do you hammer home the
truth that WineLibraryTV “succeeded because of you,
not the daily videos?” – Interesting. So Joe’s saying that
the daily consistency, which seems like a proxy to success, isn’t the reason it was successful. It was more of me and my talents. Joe, I think the answer
is they’re both correct. I mean, I would totally disagree with you that, I mean, I lived it. If I had quit after the nine-month mark, it was me, I did it. A lot of things would be different today. That just wouldn’t have
been a foundational piece of my narrative. I wouldn’t have broken out into Web 2.0 culture, which would then not have allowed me to be a top-25-follows
person during that era. Would have not allowed me to network in South by Southwest and meet all the founders of the future
most important companies. There’d surely be no opportunity in 2008 to have dinner with Zucks at South by, wouldn’t have been asked. So, you know, I think that yes, and I’ve said it a bunch of times, no marketing and no tactics will help you if your product is shit. If I wasn’t good enough, I could still be doing the episodes. There’s plenty of people that do. I mean, you can go watch
on YouTube right now someone who’s been putting out videos everyday for the last seven years and still has 8,000
subscribers and isn’t getting any traction cause they’re
just not good enough. And being good enough is
the variable, number one. But to downplay the
consistency of the work ethic. And look, I’m feeling it now
with the #AskGaryVee Show. You know, in London, seven selfies. Right? Seven people, I’m
literally walking the streets, “Gary, Gary,” I’m feeling
much more brand equity because of the content
that I’m putting out. And, honestly, I’m feeling it a lot more over the last 60 and 90 days than I did over the first year of this show. Like, momentum is a real thing. Even the Jets game. We were up 27 to 7 and then it started getting a little hairy cause for the last 18, 20 minutes Miami basically had the momentum. We held on. Momentum is real. In sports and in life and in business. And the only way you gain momentum is by putting down the foundation of work that gives you the chance for momentum. So momentum just doesn’t
come out of thin air. It’s a play, it’s a
moment, it’s consistency. It’s putting in the work and so Joe, I don’t pound that home because I think both matter quite a bit. But yes, you know, no marketing solves a bad product. – [India] From Samantha.
– [Gary] Samantha.

– [Voiceover] Veronique asks, “You say to put out quality content daily. “Can I add curated
content to my own content? “If yes, what’s the right mix?” – V, thanks so much for
a great first question. I’m real excited, by the way, I’ve been really missing the show. Between the weekend and traveling to LA and St. Louis on Monday and Tuesday. Big shout out to everybody
who’s listening on the podcast. Oh, I said watching. I didn’t say watching and
listening on the intro. Well, that’s just how it is sometimes. Anyway, the answer to your
question is absolutely. As a matter of fact, I
think what I call DJing, the ability to take
content that’s going on all around the world right now and bring it into your voice
and putting it out there is an enormous skill set. I think it’s mapping what’s happening in the actual music world, right? You look at what’s happening in EDM and other places of that nature, DJs, people that are able to take a lot of different things and put ’em together, it’s sort of like being
a great chef, isn’t it? So, actually I think one of my biggest weaknesses is my lack of curation. Because I take so much pride
in that the content is mine. I haven’t gone out and taken
articles from other people and then like kinda jumped on top of that. I remember loving Tumblr. One of the reasons I invested in Tumblr way back when was the
notion of reblogging, like tumbling something. You hit somebody else’s blog post and then you wrote your
two cents on top of it. The retweet functionality, with a quote, and then you’d put your
own two cents on Twitter, I think still has a lot more potential. They like limit you to room. I love the ability to retweet, and then have 140 characters, and let the whole thing be 250 characters. Twitter, you should steal that because I think that would
make Twitter much better. I think the adding of
two sets has always been something that I think has been valuable. And you look at somebody
like Guy Kawasaki. I mean people look at his
Twitter feed, it’s all curation. He treats himself like a media company. It’s almost not him. It’s like the Guy Kawasaki network, and he’s just putting out
hundreds of tweets a day it feels like of just different articles, things of that nature, kind
of like a human Nuzzel, or kind of like a human RSS feed. So I think curation of
other people’s stuff or passing on other headlines
is the biggest weakness in my social media content game. And I highly recommend
all of you working on it, and if it feels comfortable. For a lot of people,
you know I would say my, here comes a humblebrag, (bells rings) but I’ve been doing a lot of that lately. If you can see the latest
video. (clicks tongue) I like that dynamic pause, don’t edit it. So for me I think the reason
I don’t do as much curation is I have the ability to do
original content at scale. That’s a struggle for a lot of people, so for a lot of people that
don’t know what to say, the curation of other content
and being the news source for somebody and the rest of the world, under their context, within their genre, if you’re a yoga person
or a health person, or a pumpkin picker, your
two cents on Apple Pay, or George Clooney’s wedding
or things of that nature, under the context of being
a pumpkin picker matters.