“If you could go back to your early 20s, “would you prioritize health, “or was neglecting it necessary
to get where you are today?” – Edward, great question. I wanted to address this. One of the great things
of the show I keep saying is that I’m going to answer questions I haven’t been able to answer, and so, thanks for all of
you of getting me to 21. But the other thing I get to
do is clear up some things, so we’re picking some questions. I think I sent this one
to you Steve, right? Yeah, we get to clarify on the show. This is the clarity hour, my friends. We get to clarify a little bit on the show and what we are going to clarify is this. I bet you a lot of
people are going to think I’m going to go in one direction,
but I’m going in another. The answer is I wish I
prioritized my health. I could have slept one hour less. I could have played one hour
less of Settlers of Catan with my brother back in the day. I could have worked, this is a crazy one. I could have worked one less hour. I could have done a whole lot of things, but I should’ve found that one hour to do what I’ve been doing for the last 65 days, and prioritize my health. So, if I could go back, I’d be working out and eating
the way I’m doing it now, all the way back since then. Psst, real quick, I wasn’t joking.

– [Voiceover] John asks,
when you’re in a funk, what do you do to get out of it? – John, you’ve asked a
question that I’ve been really excited to share with the world, because it works, it is very dark. Like, this is dark, so,
I know that most people when they share my content say, beware, potty mouth McGee. This one’s beware, you
may be like, frightened, with a little bit of like a teardrop on your left eye. Left. (thumping) I’m gonna tell you the truth, because that was the commitment
when I decided to do this, which, you know, obviously I’m able, well Steve’s curating the questions but I could always kibosh them, so, when I start doing these live,
or when we do live events, or we take this show on the road and it’s audience participation
then it’ll really be the full monty but for now, I’m answering them and I’m
answering them truthfully. This is a dark one, I’m
stalling ’cause it’s dark. It’s dark. When I’m in a funk, I
literally close my eyes, put myself into a place where, something remarkable happens to me. You know, CNN names me the greatest man of all time. You know, just literally
like silly things like, I get on a list of being
the best entrepreneurs, or, Birchbox sells for
four billion dollars and I make a lot of money, or, the full extreme, when
I’m in my most funk, I literally try, usually I
do things that are realistic, and happen within a one-year window. But in my deepest funks, I’ll project, this is harder, this is
a little more role play, ’cause when I think about stuff that’s gonna happen,
intimately, it feels real. But I’ll dream about buying the Jets. And I’ll think about those great things, and then I literally, I literally make pretend
that Birchbox sells, that I make millions
and millions of dollars, and that that’s the phone call, and the next phone call is
from my hysterical sister telling me that my mother
died in a car accident. And I really do that. And I really go there. And it very, like, I’m very, as you guys know me,
I’m an emotional character. I go there, and it really does
something interesting for me. I really don’t care that I
made seven million dollars, if my mom died. I just really don’t. And I can, even as I’m
telling you this right now, I can feel it, I can truly feel how little I care about that, in comparison to what I
would feel with that pain, and very honestly, it
just sets me straight. It just reminds me what my priorities are, and it allows me to
understand that the health of my children or my wife, I mean, the fear and the shivers
I get when I think about their passing, in, you know, in real live, like them dying. And it just sets me so straight. It just makes me realize, how non-important losing that client was, or that best employee, or that
deal, or that opportunity. Passing on Uber, in the first round, which would have given
me 100 million dollars. In paper, so they gotta go public. But it’s pretty damn in there. Is something I can deal with, because, the truth is, it’s just
not what makes me happy. And more importantly, I’m so happy that everybody I love has
been healthy for so long, losing grandparents early
has put me in that position, so a negative is a positive,
and that’s what I do. I go in a very strange cocoon, and make pretend that
people I love the most die. – Gary Vee,

– [Voiceover] Chef asks, what
food or foods have you added to your new lifestyle that
you’re enjoying the most? – Chef, once again, I went
with a different tactic. There is no foods that are new. No, we went a different route. Mike, who’s on the last episode,
we went to the supermarket. I told him the things I
liked that were conceivably healthy. Mangoes, you know, shellfish. Luckily for me, I like
everything and so there has been no additions. This has been about subtractions. – [Voiceover] Arsh asks,
how can I converge my vision

– [Voiceover] Marin asks, do you ever complain and what’s your attitude
toward complaining in business and in life in general? – Marin, I appreciate this question and I’m curious how much you know me or if you’re asking that
because the truth is if you look at my historical tweets, hundred thousand plus, maybe there’s two complaints. You know, maybe you can get to three. One of the people I look
up to most in the world, maybe the person I look
up to most in the world tied with my dad, I know
dad, you might watch this, is my mother. And, hands down, and I mean, hands down, the thing that I find most
intriguing about my mom and probably one of the
things that I’m most happy that she’s passed on
to me is her inability, almost, to complain. I find it extremely attractive. I would tell you that I adore
my wife for that reason. As a matter fact, Xander
is whining too much and he’s only two and
I find it unattractive. I’m very against complaining. I’m very, put your head down. I’m very, don’t you
realize you’re healthy? Like, to me the only thing
you should complain about is the the unfortune, unluck of health. You know, somebody dying that
you love in a car accident or you becoming terminally ill. After that, it feels controllable. And so, I really dislike complaining. I try to, I talk a lot
about honey over vinegar. It’s an analogy I use a
lot here at VaynerMedia. I thrive on positivity and so the way I deal with complaining
is I try not to do it. I try to educate and empower people the lack of it’s value, I guess. I mean, I don’t have a gear. You know, when you go in my gear, like there is no, like, oh
let me go into complain zone. To me, it’s assess, figure it out, and go directly back on the offense. I’m a very offensive player. Complaining is the defense. – [Voiceover] Robert asks, I’ve
been doing a lot of jabbing,

– [Voiceover] Kyle asks,
“What’s an area of life that you haven’t given
your fullest efforts?” – Kyle, great question, and I probably was willing to answer it because of how good I feel about this question. There were two places, 36 months ago, that I was struggling in. One was kind of the non-profit NGO. I was giving my dollars,
but I wasn’t giving my time. Now I am a very proud member of the board of Pencils of Promise, and I’ve gotten more involved with my time
which is the real asset. I feel like I’m checking
that box of giving back outside of my own family
and things of that nature, and so I feel good about that. And the other one is my health. I would say health was the
clear answer only 35 days ago. I guess now, maybe a
little bit more Gary time? Between kids and the
businesses, and now working out. AJ’s been pushing me, he’s
got into golf a little bit, I don’t feel like I’ve
been able to figure out, or crack, or hack, Gary time. I guess the Jets do that, but
then that’s really September to December I get that
Sunday for five, seven, eight, nine hours depending
if it’s a home or road game. I think January through September, finding something that’s just for me that I really enjoy is something I should probably figure out. But the truth is, it doesn’t
feel right to me right now. The kids are two and five, I
wanna kinda allocate to that, the health, I’m just
prioritizing other stuff. Hopefully, next two or
three years, Gary time. – [Voiceover] Shai asks, “How does

what’s the one thing that
keeps you up at night?” Eric, this is interesting. I promised myself when I started this show that I would go really direct, right? I mean, I already have the benefit of Steve picking the questions, so, meaning that, you know, there’s no reason not to go
direct and honest on these. This is gonna be a little
bit of a douchey answer, so DRock, I know you know how to edit, can you create a little
douche alert thing here? Can we get some sirens going.
(sirens blaring) It’s gonna be a little
bit of a douchey answer but it’s the truth. As a business leader, the one
thing that I most worry about every day is my health. Because the truth is, if I am healthy, I am completely unscared of
any of the landscape or shifts, definitely the competition,
internal issues, like, I feel like I’m in complete control. There is no place in the world that I feel more completely
and utterly in control than running a business. – [Voiceover] Daniel asks,
“center or edge?”

Marie asks, what’s the biggest lesson
you’ve learned this year? Marie, that is a very simple question. By far the biggest question, biggest question, the biggest thing I learned and don’t edit it. I don’t edit here. Marie, the biggest thing
I’ve learned this year hands down is that prioritizing my health
is a really good idea. The fact that I am now going to the gym and eating healthy and I’m, what are we Tuesday? Is today Tuesday? So I’m 26 days in to
26 days of working out and times three. 78 healthy meals in a
row without cheating. The energy level is actually
down believe it or not because I was living on sugar but I just feel like a
totally different person. It was the absolute right decision for me. It’s changed my life. I’m heading in the right direction. I feel like a different person. I will be on this Earth longer for it barring crazy accident and I’m happy about that.