“What advice would you give
to a high school student “struggling to decide what to
pursue as a future career?” – I’ve got an answer. Get busy. Do something, do anything. And one of my favorite pieces of advice as to exactly what you should do, is do something you hate. Like, I didn’t find my
passion for entrepreneuralship and filmmaking and everything
that I’ve done in my career. I didn’t find that by doing it. I found that by scrubbing pots in a really terrible seafood restaurant. Because when you spend 50
hours a week scrubbing pots, it’s 50 hours a week you’re obsessing about what you wish you were doing. Sitting around playing video games in your parents’ sweet house is the worst way to find
your mission in life. Do something, staying busy
is a really, really easy path to find something you truly
wanna invest yourself in. – I would also then say to recognize that playing video games in
your parents’ sweet house is probably your outlet
to success in your career. I would say that your
ultimate strengths and wants are the quickest gateway drug to upside once you recognize that there’s
something to be done there. Too many of you, in the world don’t believe that the thing
they like doing the most has financial upside. We’ve drawn a line in the sand, that the thing we like is what we do when we have time to do it like. And the other places to
either make money or get by. So many people are in the other bucket are driven by, I’m gonna go into finance ’cause that’s where the money is. Or I just need enough money and then I’m gonna have
good work-life balance, I’ll be on the softball
team, I’ll play video games. I really believe– I really believe that somebody
who’s watching this right now who obsesses on being on six
soft ball teams right now, literally can make 127,000
dollars a year in ad revenue and live events and a
couple other sponsorships and selling a couple t-shirts by literally becoming
the authority on softball in America. – My son who is a junior in high school is spending a good piece of his summer, including right now, today at a university in
Connecticut studying computer, computer science, specifically
focused on video game design. – Yeah. – Just to back up video playing. – Video game culture in 19– When we were kids. To think it was a mass industry. I mean E-Sport’s gonna
be bigger than baseball in this country in 20 years. E-Sport’s is gonna be a bigger business than major league baseball
in 20, 30 years from now. I’ll go 30, I’m gonna hedge a little bit. In 30 years from now. I mean, that is incredible to me. India. – [Voiceover] Atiyya asks, “If you could swap out
one quality of your won

I kinda been keeping up on
Facebook and your Twitter and I saw where people were struggling with identifying your passion as opposed to calling it cockiness. You know, along with
passion comes confidence and I understand that well
’cause I’m the same way when it comes to what I do. I was just wondering,
how do you handle that? It’s something that I’ve
dealt with my whole life. Where most, some people don’t understand that your love for
something or your passion for what you’re doing, it shines through and people have a hard
time understanding that. So I wanted to know what is
that you do to cope with that? What is it that you do
to try to help people better understand that? And I think that can also
help take me into next level. To the next level in what I do and I wanna just find out how
it is that you handle that. Look forward to hearing
back from you, thank you. – All right, world champ,
Draymond Green on the show. Staphon, you must — – [Staphon] No, it’s a great day. (laughs) – Thanks Draymond. I think, you know– First of all, thanks
for watching the show. Show. (laughs) I have a feeling and
I’ve watched from afar how you’ve been handling this as well ’cause you’ve clearly established yourself especially with the Golden State Warriors run to a championship this year. A lot more people are aware of you and you definitely come with a
lot of confidence and bravado And really interesting, right? Your story connects with me because you’re an undersized, power forward
who sometimes guards centers in the NBA and now, I just
read an article the other day that everybody in the
off-season is talking about finding their
Draymond Green in the NBA. That you’ve been
mentioned more than LeBron this off-season about
how small ball can work. You’ve literally, through
self confidence, perseverance I also know a little bit about
how your mother raised you so I caught that part of your narrative, that’s interesting to me. I think we actually connect pretty well. As a matter of fact, I
actually think that you and I should play one on one. (laughs) In an episode of the #AskGaryVee Show. Just to see if it’s humanly
possible for me to score a point I think this is one of
the things that I love about people that think
they can play NBA players on one-on-one. I actually think that people don’t realize how pretty consistent an NBA player against anybody who never
went past high school level basketball can shut them out 11 – nothing in a one-on-one game. So I would be super pumped
if I could score points with Draymond, that challenge is on. I think you might duck me
because I think you’re scared and you know we’re gonna film it. (laughs) But to answer your question, to answer your question in full. I think you just have to do you and I think that’s what you’re doing. I think I talk about the
truth being undefeated. I’m a 39 year old man. You’re in your 20’s, early, mid-20’s. Early 20’s. I know that you and I and
everybody in this room, and everybody watching
and listening to the show, we all want, we all
think about who we are. Social media’s been
really interesting to me because I think social
media’s been the first tangible expression of how
everybody wants to PR themselves to the world. Even the people that poo-poo it or try to play too cool for school or don’t believe in it, they don’t understand. Subconsciously, every
single piece of content that every person has ever
put out on social media has been absolutely
thought through and is– Not like, you’re thinking about it. It’s been thought through subconsciously. It is the action end
results of a narrative that you’ve been painting in your mind your whole life of who you are. Who you want to be. The ambition that you want. I have outrageous disproportionate want to be considered one of the
great businessmen of all time. And want to be known about how I did it. And they way I treated
people along the way. I am very far away from that. For as much as you guys love
me and as much as they– You have to understand, 99% of the world has no idea who I am. I have still not amassed
the kind of wealth that can give me the halo effect to talk about being a tangible
execution to that level. So, I’m still so far away but I know at 80 my
actions are gonna basically be the result of my wants. And I think you want to be great and you’ve already, at such a young age, hit the apex of your career
so you’ve got a different game than I do but I think
along with, he’s cocky or he’s this or she’s cocky and she’s that comes all the stories behind the scenes that people don’t know. That I’m sure, and I’m not sure. I hope that behind the scenes you’re doing these things for fans. And behind the scenes when
your competitor beats you, even though you’ve put
everything to it, there’s– As much as I hate the
Patriots, as much as might hate that you got knocked
out of the playoffs. Even if you’re kinda sour
about it, and I get sour. If I lose 11-nothing, I
wouldn’t even shake your hand. Even though I’m telling you
to shake that person’s hand in my advice right now.
(laughs) It’s really there, it’s that
respect level to the game. I think as long as you respect the game and respect, and this
something that I think a lot of people struggle with. I respect where I’m at right now. Because it’s the game. I could think maybe I’m slightly behind. I could think I should be
a little further along. I’m just not. And it’s a net net game. I think that you want people
to see you as self-confident not egotistical. You want people to see
that you’re working hard, that you’re not cheap in the trenches. So those actions just have
to be that way, right. They just have to be that way. So for me, I think you just do you and let the chips fall where they may and I have funny feeling you’re okay with what they’re saying along the way as long as you feel good about it. And for me, that’s my game too. Plenty of people say things and I just feel good about it. I feel real damn good about it. ‘Cause I’ll see you. I’ll see you soon and we’ll talk about it.

“to have two burning
passions and pursue them “at the same time without half-assing them? “Or is it ideal to pick one at a time?” – That’s a really good question. I, you know I think there’s people that have two burning
passions at the same time. I really do and I wonder
if you can Wuzzle them and make them both work at the same time. That was a 1980’s rare television cartoon Saturday morning reference, Wuzzle. Do you know what Wuzzles are? India search it right now.
– [India] Wuzzles? – Let’s watch India’s face
as, she’s gonna love these watch this, this is India in real time, this is India in real time.
– Wuzzles? – Yeah Wuzzles, W, yep see it?
– [India] Wuzzles? – Uh-huh, go to images
because this is Wikipedia go to images.
– [India] Okay. – I want you to like really
wrap your head around how cool these things are, cool right? They’re two animals in one. So she was like a hippo
– [India] Oh. – and a butterfly, you
see what’s going on here? two animals in one.
– [India] I see it, I see it. Oh I kinda remember this. – Bang that’s what I
was lookin’ for, uh huh. – [India] The two animals in one. – Uh-huh, so maybe you can
Wuzzle them right and find a way to make your two passions… For example, you know
I could’ve very easily made Wine Library TV and the Jets.. What’s goin’ on to you? – [India] (laughing) Wuzzle them. – Well Wuzzle them, like take your two passions
– [India] I know – and smash them into one. – [India] I get it. – Like for example, I could’ve
done all my wine episodes at football games that
would’ve been a further.. You know I have the
Jets bucket but you know there’s ways to uniquely… I think you know I once
said and a lot of you liked this photo on Instagram,
if you order this quote, if you want to be an anomaly
you have to act like one. I wonder based on this question if you could be the first
person that combines two things that nobody’s ever combined
before which are weird and win. For example again, I love wrestling. What if I did Wine Library
TV only at tailgates or football environments
and wrestling matches. Like independent
circuits, like weird stuff where there’s 150 people
in the audience at a gym and the Iron Sheik’s still
there, you know stuff like that. So I’m a big fan of trying
to find a way to Wuzzle them and that’s what I would do. Now obviously a lot of
people are gonna tell you pick one, focus, I may say that at times. Today I felt like Wuzzling
them, tomorrow if I answer this question I might say
pick one, both can work. I think at the end of the
day, and we’ve talked a lot about this, it’s about self-awareness. And it’s funny I’m reading
every goddamn comment in Facebook specifically, right now I’m on a Facebook comment kind
of spree so I apologize to all the YouTubers but
that’s just what’s happening, and it’s interesting I’m
feeling more and more pressure on my shoulders more than ever before because the show is
picking up so much momentum and I’m watching so many people comment about them implementing
and seeing results. And it makes me hungry,
ambitious, greedy to try to impact more people with
what is really working. Which is if you really
know yourself, really India this question comes down
to a very simple place which is it’s one of two choices. It’s truly one of two choices. It’s really just two
levers, it’s happiness and financial and street cred upside. It’s just trying to pull the lever.. and listen I do this, I think
a lot of you may be confused. I leave enormous amounts
of money on the table for happiness. I just do, I do it all the time. The largest speaking gig
of my career, a number that makes me vomit on the
table out of happiness, I passed on ’cause it’s week
four and the Jets are playing in London and I want to go
watch the Jets play the Dolphins in London, and by the way
this is a significant number, this is a hefty six figure deal. This is more money than I
made in a three year period in my mid-twenties to go
and MC and speak at an event for a day and a half. Still could’ve watched the
Jets like I do all the time and I’m choosing happiness
over cash and we all have to do that all the
time and our lives evolve. I’m in a better financial place
than I was seven years ago. Maybe then I would’ve
chose cash, I don’t know, but even in my early days.. For example, when I lost an
eighth of, eight Jesus Christ, a third of my entire wealth in my twenties to have fun in Vegas so I
then lose it all gambling was ’cause I chose
happiness, kinda sadness, over, over, over wealth. And so the answer to this question is predicated very simply. Do I believe there’s, I’m gonna
really, I’m really breakin’ this down India, if you
Wuzzle it you may pop and be an anomaly and have
disproportionate success ’cause you’re the first guy to ever bring spaghetti and music together in this way. Most likely you won’t
and your financial upside is probably predicated on
picking one and going all in. Most likely, however, you
just might have more happiness mixing the two and have the
home run grand slam potential of breaking out which is why
I always do those things. I’m always picking my
happiness versus the straight and obvious course because
I’ve got a little bit of magic and sometimes my weird
stuff actually works as well and the booboo prize is that I’m happier. And boy happiness is addicting. You know what I’m gonna actually – [Voiceover] Vayner Nation
Serious Right Hook war.

– How are you? – I’m good, how are you?
– [Gary] Good. – All right, I’m a personal trainer in a recent grad here
in the upper east side of New York city.
– [Gary] Yep. – I have you know, lot of
internship experiance at agencies full service marketing agencies. I love it. I crave it. I want to get back into it.
– [Gary] Okay. – Now, what is a fundamental skill that you find a lot of entry
level marketers lacking that you feel they should
take advantage of it. – You know it’s funny, it’s
not how I think about it to be honest with you,
it’s a good question I understand where you’re going with it. I’m not worried about what you don’t have I’m more worried about what you have. – Bet on your strengths? – 100%. You know like, I’m not gonna
waiver from this stuff, right? This is what I believe in. And so, you know, I don’t know because, it’s not how I even process. What I want to know is, you know look your passion for craving
it might just be enough. You know, there is a
lot of different ways. Now the truth is, a ton
of people have passion. So, passion and another
skill more interesting passion and two skills or but, remember skills come in two forms you went and formed it or
it naturally comes to you. Right? And so, I think
the question is looking I would tell you that you’re
looking to get back in the game If you innuendoing to
applying to the VaynerMedia I think what you need
to do is walk in there with the honest truths,
that are you as a marketer and maybe you went over
that process through the work ethic because it feels like
something you can control. But, maybe it’s a DNA thing,
maybe hardwork is a DNA thing I don’t know, you know you got to go in there with the truths spend all your time talking
about that and move forward. Zak, as a designer
sitting in front of you had natural speed,
qualities as a designer. And that’s why he’s so great for me because, and that’s why
he’s so great for me because, he bring so much value to me because, we’re fast. I’m exact, we need to redesign
the entire 40 page website and I need it in an
hour, he’s like “Cool”. You know, like that you know You know, and for other people
they think that we’re crazy that it has to go through
process and triple check and I respect that, Bowmen that’s the original, they
don’t even fit, the Bowmen – Question for you
– [Gary] I love that. Got it (mumbling) I love the, he’s flashing
baseball cards behind. I got it. He’s totally
hacking the system. I love it. The Jordan upper deck card
– [Man] These are all for you. So, I think that’s it. It’s not what I’m looking for it’s you going in with what you got. – [Mergim] Okay, thank you.
– Cool, man. Pass the mic.

– [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.

#HustleHacks when it comes to diet, sleep, and your daily routine? How do you maintain energy and brain power while hustling nonstop?” Sean, I think a lot of that comes to– First of all, great picture.
This whole picture dynamic is going to really flip the switch. Obviously you guys know
I’m super hot on Instagram. To me, I care about the Attention Graph, actually I want to write
an article on Medium about this, the Attention Graph. That’s the whole game. That’s actually probably my nugget. I win on that. Which is,
where’s the attention? You know, YouTube, a year
after YouTube comes out, it’s got attention that people
don’t realize is valuable. Start the #AskGaryVee
show, podcasting, snapchat– Or start Wine Library
TV, sorry for the mix up. One in the same, it’s all family. They’re my kids, I love them both. It’s weird that I have two shows. I’m really weirded out that I’m gonna be a person that has two shows. Anyway, to answer your question, it really comes down to loving it. The reason I’m able to continue to hustle and do what I do is because I love it. I love doing the show, I love
flying all over the country. I like taking my kind
of selfies on Instagram where I’m sour-face and everybody’s like, “Don’t be like– This is what you want,
right? Why are you upset?” I’m not upset, I’m just– Kind of fun little pout
face that I like doing when I travel, 13-year-old girls can’t be the only people that pout. I think for me it comes down to I love it so much that– Here’s a good answer, I
woke up at 5:15 this morning after landing at midnight
on a flight yesterday, to play six a.m. tip-off basketball today because I loved it. But
if Muscle Mike came in to work me out at that time, I
would’ve been more begrudged. Because I love basketball,
I love competition. I’ve come to love the working out, I love the way it makes me look. I’ve been looking at some
old videos like, whew! But that’s what it comes down to. If you truly love it, it
doesn’t feel like work. All these extra hours I’m putting into the Wine Library stuff right now, doesn’t feel like work because I love the wine retail hustle
game, so it’s interesting. It just comes down to love. – [Voiceover] Kate Parker
asks, “Gary, I am growing

“for switching on your brain?” – Ko, this is an
interesting question to me. Like that? Ko, this is an interesting question to me. I don’t really know how to answer it. First of all, I don’t do well
with top three questions, so VaynerNation, don’t
ask me top three questions because I don’t even know
how to gather my thoughts in that way, I’m not an
active enough thinker to execute that. I don’t know. You know, weirdly the only
thing that comes to me on the answer, and it’s
why I took this question, because it’s an interesting question, is passion. It’s a very lightweight answer. It’s a fluffy answer, but I truly believe that it is the answer, meaning, if you actually love what you’re doing, if you actually love
it, there is no friction to turn on your brain. The only time I feel like
I have to turn on my brain was when I was six to 22 years old, when I was going through the
bullshit education system of America, right? That’s when I felt like
I had to turn it on, to appease horse crap that
didn’t match my reality. But every since that
day, when like, “Yay!” and I went into like, you
need to buy this Pinot Grigio, the second that started in May of 1998, there’s never been a day
that I’ve had to activate. It’s always on, and I don’t mean always on buzzword marketing, it’s that I love what I do so much that there is no friction to turn it on, even when I am landing
at 2:00 in the morning from a flight that’s delayed
like the other night, and then going directly into
it at 6:30 in the morning because the fire is so deep inside, you love it so much. You don’t need that jump start. – [Voiceover] Cory asks,
“When it comes to weaknesses

and I was actually born in
Russia like you were as a baby. I’m 14 years old, and here’s my question. I wanna be an entrepreneur
when I get older, but I don’t know where to start. Like, what actions should I
be taking right now as a kid? Thanks. – B, listen to me. First and foremost, by
asking this question and knowing what The #AskGaryVee Show is, you’re putting yourself in a
position to be an entrepreneur. I like that. What I don’t like is the question because what you should know if you’re a purebred entrepreneur, so wanting to be an entrepreneur versus being an entrepreneur are
two very different things, and I have no interest
in giving the medicine to a 14-year-old, especially
’cause I gave the medicine to a 14-year-old Steeler’s fan yesterday, and it wasn’t pretty
and I’m not proud of it. On this show is probably the
second most competitive place I live in, and so what I
want to tell you is this. Look, if I were you, I would sell that Under Armour sweatshirt
that you’re wearing in the video to some other
kid in the neighborhood. I would go back in the woods
in the video that you just had and find some rocks and sell
’em to some nine-year-old girl. That’s what I did. I was that raw. Now, we’re not all the same. What I’m trying to tell you is the best way to become something
is to act like something. So, you wanna be an entrepreneur? Start acting like one, meaning start a business,
start selling things. Both will work, or find a mentor. Find the 18, 19, 20,
21-year-old kind of entrepreneur in your neighborhood and
start helping her or him out for free just to learn the
hustle, to taste the game. You’ve gotta put yourself in the position. There’s no reading about entrepreneurship. There was a question today that
came through for #AskGaryVee that said, “Gary, name the first, “name the four best business
books you’ve read this year.” And I laughed my ass off because I don’t think I’ve read
four books in my life, and definitely not four business books, and so there’s no reading, my man. There’s doing, and so sell
the shirt off your back. – [Voiceover] TJ asks, “As
a fellow son of immigrants,

– [Voiceover] Michael asks,
“How do you define hustle?” – Michael, this is funny
because show his face. ‘Cause I can see him grinning. This was the first question– What are we 35 in five? This was the first question
of 150 questions that I can see from the corner of
my eye he literally said, “How do you define hustle?” ‘Cause he could see this (laughter) I mean this is a challenging question. So first of all, it’s
different for everybody, right, but I would say hustle is to me, is that when you have
passion around something, that you were squeezing
every last bit of the juice out of the orange, right. To me, hustle is maximizing
the energy you’re putting into somebody. I’m blown away by people
saying that they’re hustling and they wanna achieve these great things, and then their actions don’t match. It’s like saying you
really wanna lose weight, while eating a Big Mac, right? So to me, hustle would be
putting all your effort into achieving the goal at hand, and for me, that means
making every minute count. Hiring a full time assistant who is… Friday night didn’t happen because I was hustling every minute, like if I miss my 15
minutes to tape this show, I’ve missed my 15 minutes
because there’s so much hustle in my day there’s no, you know, there’s no like… There’s no hanging out. There’s no time we’re like,
if I could do like one joke with you guys as I’m
walking in between meetings, we find that to be a rare
acquaintance situation, like occurrence, not acquantance. Hustle is putting it all in a line. Hustle is waking up one
day, the day before you die, and you realizing you gave it your all until the parenting of your children, the building of your businesses, the philanthropy you wanted to do, whatever you define, it’s just, you know, all in, emotionally
and executionally. In theory and strategy, and in execution. – Hey, Bridget Willard here
from you too can be a guru

“Sometimes my passion
is seen as aggression. “How do I walk the line? “Do I change to someone more passive?” – Nasir? Nasir, first of all,
don’t change for anybody. Now, finding that balance of grace and having that tact to be
consumable is a process. I, somewhere around eighth grade into sophomore year, didn’t hit the right tone anymore. I was too intense for my classmates, and I could taste it ’cause I have empathy and kind of self-awareness, and it’s an ongoing process. Like, you know, for example, my keynotes are interesting, I just referenced them. I’m actually evolving
that cadence throughout the conversation of the tone, ’cause I’m reacting to the body language of everybody else. It’s not about how do
you become more passive, ’cause I’d hate to suck
the passion out of you which is a huge variable to success. Controlling it and people saying, “You’re just a little too much.” I have a feeling that that’s predicated on you caring too much for it to be valuable for you. I’m gonna say that again for everybody. The only reason I think that I’m able to pull off this is because there’s a healthy balance of caring about you. When you care more about your audience than what you have to say, you start winning, right? When you care more about
your global audience listening or watching and it’s not about the 15 minutes of what am I gonna get out of it, then sure, in a right hook world it’s always there. Let me actually use this question to define something that I don’t think I talked about in the book. I live in a world of
jab, jab, jab, right hook. Let me tell you two
interesting things of that. I don’t necessarily feel that I ever have to throw a right hook and I don’t expect the
need to throw a right hook based on my jabs in micro levels. At the holistic level, I do. Also, there’s another part that we never talk about, is there? Which is, what happens when the right hook doesn’t land? I’m actually not disappointed. What happens when I do all awesome stuff for these guys or anybody else? I don’t have any expectation that they’re gonna do something
awesome for me in return. Eliminating that lack of expectation opens up a world of where you can provide. So, based on your question, based on my intuition,
my vibe on this question, it has a whole lot to do with you caring more about them, the people that are judging you, they’re telling you to chill out. They’re telling you that because, not about your passion, because, take it from me
and many other people, people love passion. They don’t like selfish passion.