“for someone who finds out
that they’re not cut out “to be an entrepreneur?” – Oh yeah, I get it
Malik ’cause you played, I’m just kidding. Being an entrepreneur
is not some great thing. It’s just as good as being anything. It’s just as good as being
a great, I mean listen as much as it’s amazing for
me that I inspire people to maybe build businesses
that then is a gateway drug to happiness in their
life, I’d be, I’d feel really compelled to be financially secure, have better work, life
balance and be a brain surgeon and save people’s lives on a daily basis. Like there’s a lot of things,
or like some of the things, do you know, you know maybe
not as financially rewarding but if you’re wired to be
a great guidance counselor. Impacting teenagers through
those really difficult, and being a guidance
counselor in a high school for real and if you’re not
mailing it in and full of shit and only wanna be there nine
to three and you’re out, if you really are in it. It just comes down,
you know it’s funny, so that would be cool to
be a guidance counselor which leads me to the point
that made me think of this which is if you’re really passionate. And I don’t use that
word as you guys know. I kinda stay away from that
’cause I think it’s kind of a bullshitty word, but if you’re
truly passionate and really into what you do and you
really give it your all. Like if you really do, whether
you do it for yourself or within an organization
that you believe in or within an organization
that you think will get you to the place you want to be one day. Which is really what I try to build here. Which is one of those two things right? It’s a place you want to be,
around me and that energy and that success and that
machine for the rest of your life or you feel like the
things you learn at Vayner over a two, six, 12, 19
year career lends itself to the things you want
to do in the future. If you’re lucky enough to be
in one of those scenarios, regardless of what you do, if you passionately get up in the morning. If you got up this morning
at six a.m. like I did and were fired up to go, of
course ’cause the Jets won, but fired up to go and your
to go was you’re gonna go in the office and from nine to
four you’re gonna clean teeth and work on cavities ’cause
you’re a badass, motherf- dentist that loves the teeth
game well then you’ve won. My advice is if you figured out
you weren’t an entrepreneur, well then you’re just like
one of those contestants on American Idol. That went there, you gave
an at-bat, good for you, kudos. You stood in front of Simon
and he said you f- stink and you’re like crap and then
you went home and it aired a couple months later and
everybody laughed at you and on Twitter they said you
stunk and you’re like alright maybe I’m you know weird
and maybe I can’t sing. Now what you need to do
is comma, move on and try to figure out what you can
do, what you are good at and more importantly what do you love? And then there’s the other big
semicolon, I don’t even know that’s definitely not the
proper grammar, but like there’s the other parallel thing. Which is you don’t give a
crap that you suck at singing. You can’t breathe and believe
that you can do anything else. You’re just gonna sing. Awesome, go get a job at a karaoke bar. Go, work at a music store
and just sit there all day and sing. There’s absolutely this remarkable balance of what makes you happy, what
makes you the most money. Some people are just blessed,
lucky or grind their way into it or were born with
the talent of like being able to do both. I would tell you that if
I could make enough money to make me happy because I
want it, because I like it. I like the game, it’s the
game of it more so than it but go, I’ve often thought
about fully retiring and just garage saleing. You know? But the problem is I just have
too much other ambition and other things I want to do and
it’s really not predicated on the money but like the
garage, I’m very close, I’m one DNA strand away from being a guy that makes $87,000 a year
garage saleing every day. And that’s cool and I have
so many friends and relatives that are rip crap happy that
tried to be entrepreneurs, failed just like I would fail to be a professional
hockey player or a singer, and have gone on to
massively happy, it’s just about being happy and so my
advice for an entrepreneur would be dust it off, be
like alright that’s not me, even though it’s a hot
thing to be right now, and let me go figure out
what I can do that is. To me the magic is what’s the
thing that you can do the best that you like the most? What’s that cross section? And then that’s a great place to be right? It may not be perfect,
you might not be like Kobe who loves playing, you
can see it in his face, loves playing basketball more
than breathing and happened to be phenomenal at it which
is why you become Kobe. There’s a reason there’s Kobe. There’s a reason there’s Madonna. There’s a reason that there
are these one-named people. Cher, you know, there’s a reason, let’s cut to the chase. Because they happen to have
at the inflection point, the passion and love and
desire and the talent for that thing and found that thing. Which is a whole nother category of things to be successful. I feel like I’ve had
that but I also recognize in so many not that exact thing or the upper-middle class version of it. The eight on a 10 point scale, the 7.2, the 9.1, the 5.4. That’s what you’re lookin’ for you know, that’s what you’re lookin’ for. And then there’s the balance
of risk and practicality. So many people are not
born with the risk gene of an entrepreneur. You’re just not willin’
to take the chance, it’s just too scary. I just don’t know the other way. It was too scary not to get F’s for me. I’ve always fought the system. I can’t conform to what
people think is right. It’s just not how I see the
world, it’s just not what I see. So, I think tripling down on you. If you found out you’re not entrepreneur, you probably weren’t
self-aware to begin with to realize that you weren’t
gonna win in that anyway. You’re probably just following
a narrative of what’s sexy or what’s attractive and you need to take a big boy, big girl
step back in your life and say okay let’s get really real with ourselves. What is the thing I’m best
at that I like the most and then triple down on that. Put yourself in that position. Quit your job or quit the failed startup and go start whittling
wood ’cause you might just be great at it and you can
sell the goddamn little statues in an amazing museum shop in Wyoming. Be happy as goddamn hell. Make a good buck. You’re one Instagram photo
away from somebody saying look how amazing this is. Now you’re the wood
whittlinger for the celebrities and like this is real,
you know but this is real. This is how shit goes down and it’s funny and I know it’s a funny thing. I’m glad I got you India but
what do you think happened with DJ’s? They just loved it so much
and so they made 500 bucks on the side at parties. DJ AM, I watch Doc U, and
then he became the one that did it for Madonna’s parties and then he got paid a million
dollars to be the DJ in residence in Vegas. Funny things happen when you
triple down on your strengths. A lotta times the world comes to you. A lotta times the world comes to you. It may not seem like you
can make, too many people are like I’m awesome
at this and I love this but it doesn’t make a lotta money. I hate that because that is
the place to go ’cause all of a sudden the world comes to you. 1979 I’m a great chef and I
love cooking more than life but I’m not gonna be a chef
because it only pays $50,000 at this restaurant and I’m the help. Yeah until that 22 year old then in 1995 is 37 and celebrity chefs are now a thing and she has her own show. I mean like, that’s what I think. Cool, that was fun,

“your humble self or a
caricature of yourself “in today’s service-based tech industry?” – Chris, the best thing
to do, this is a good time to answer this question. The best way to do anything
is to be the truth. So sometimes I’m humble, and
sometimes I’m egotistical, and sometimes I’m ridiculous. And this would be one of those times. I think your honest self
is always the right answer. If you’re trying to play to
what the market likes right now, you’re gonna always have to change, right? Right now entrepreneurship is cool. By the way, when the tech bubble bursts, when, God forbid, and I haven’t
been able to send my love to a lot of my business
associates that live in the Paris area, obviously
grew up in the wine business, know a lot of people in that town, and so God forbid when that, when, not if, when that happens in the
US and the market pops, entrepreneurship’s not gonna be hot. Practical, paying your
bills is gonna get hot. We’ve had a great 10 year run
here that everybody’s kinda living in right now,
and all you youngsters haven’t really tasted the alternative, you haven’t tasted the stock
market splitting in half, jobs not being available,
you not getting recruited by everybody, your
homies from school saying come start a business with me. Practicality is really
on the horizon, I see it. Oh, there you are practicality! It’s coming, and when it comes it’s going to be an
interesting market change. This show, hopefully I’m
doing it when it happens. Well, hopefully I’m not, hopefully it doesn’t
happen for awhile, but. I think you have to be you,
because I was entrepreneur when it wasn’t sexy, I’m entrepreneur now, and I promise you, and I’ll
play this clip 22 years from now I will be entrepreneur
when it’s not sexy again. (India mumbles)

– [Voiceover] Shawn asks, “I was
asked to fill out a self-evaluation, “but I think these are just a waste of time “and don’t help that much. “What do you think?” – I think it depends on
who’s on the receiving end of the self-evaluation. There are things that
I’ve done in my career where I’ve asked employees to do things and never then read it, and that was obviously a waste of time. (laughs) Right? And that’s not fun for me to admit, but things that I learned
as a kid at Wine Library and the truth is even at VaynerMedia there’s been things that I’ve done. A lot of my employees
now know, let’s do it on a call for two minutes
instead of emailing me ’cause that’s not how I roll. If somebody’s on the other
end listening to that feedback and actually does something
with that feedback, the self-evaluation is tremendous. I think you’re barking up
the right tree, though, is I don’t think that’s happening
in 99% of organizations. mainly ’cause the intent
isn’t there to give a crap enough about the employee, and
so my cynical point of view of how businesses are
treating their employees leads me to, you’re probably right. Now, if you’re there because you believe, I’d like to think that India feels good about doing it at VaynerMedia with me on my team, so then it’s valuable. But I think it comes down to more about how much you believe in the organization, more so than the tactic that is deployed in a self-evaluation. I also think people are full
of crap in self-evaluations, like you’re always gonna give yourself, if it’s 50-50 if you’re
like am I good or great? Great! Am I lazy or just solid? I’m solid! So like everybody’s always leaning to their best benefit, it’s human nature. – [India] Really, you think everybody is? – No, I think that’s a good point India, I do think some people are
stunningly hard on themselves. But yes, I think, you know, first of all it’s a good opportunity,
I never think anything’s a hundred percent, the
hell’s a hundred percent? Nothing. But yes, I do think the far majority, and 94%, which allows me to say everybody.

– [Voiceover] Meet asks, “Hi, Gary, “it seems like everyone speaks about “not giving up no matter what, “but how do you know when
it’s time to let it go?” – So, I’m, this is
something I struggle with, like, having a loss on
your resume is so scary, and the business ventures that I’ve had in the past where I
wasn’t actively running and I’ve talked about Cork’d or Forrst. Lindsay and Kyle, amazing entrepreneurs that I don’t feel that I supported enough and thus those two, Obsessed
TV with Samantha Ettus, where I try to produce a video show, that didn’t start me. I never was able to give it enough energy, and the thing I spent
the most time with is when do I let it go? Because there’s a point where you realize, by the way, I realize this with employees, you know, I know a lot
of VaynerMedia employees watch this, but I’m gonna tell the truth. There’s 5 to 6 employees that I think it might be time to not
work together anymore, and do I struggle with that? Boy, do I struggle with that. One, mainly because I don’t
like letting other people down more than anything. The truth is, Meet, I think
this is a very personal answer. I think it depends on every individual, but what I will say is, way
too many people watching this right now are holding onto
hope, or a non-reality, or don’t wanna make somebody feel bad, or dont wanna have the
reputation of having a loss on their record, and I
think that’s a huge mistake, and it’s probably the mistake
I’m most vulnerable to, and as I think about my next 40 years of executing, and you’re right, I am hustling more than ever, I’m feeling more fit and energized and feel like I’m gonna really
go into my golden years, especially the next 20
years, that’s just the truth, though I’m sure when I’m 60 I’m like, this is when I’m really gonna do it. I do think that that, this
is a tremendous question, I’m so goddamn pumped that this happened on my 40th, post-40th
birthday episode, first one. This is the one thing that
I’m spending a lot of time on. I think it’s hard, but it is, I think more people have
to let go more often. And the two things that I’m working on are both ends of that:
saying no more often, because boy that’s hard for me, and then letting go more
often, and really zoning in on that middle is my answer to that. So the punchline is, very personal, but, because I wanna bring value
to everybody listening, what’s up, podcasters, and watching, I really think that a lot of
you need to take this question, use it as a moment, use it as permission, let me be your olive branch, link to this part of
the show as the excuse or the frame that let you do it, there’s a lot of people
that need to let go. – And if I could have one thing, that would be, this book is probably the
first time where I felt like I was gonna fail in a while. – Interesting, because you, because you had to do the work? It wasn’t like what naturally was in you. – Right, it was, what was naturally in me was just write another book, you know, and I thought that I would
be letting everyone down by doing that, and in three
and a half years in the making, right, there were, I mean,
even up until six weeks before it was done, I thought
it was not gonna happen. – Meaning what? – Just, so many things
were going wrong, you know, in terms of production
and printing processes and finding the right shapes
and everything about it. Also, re-learning how to write sentences. Like, I was beaten. And there was a saying
that a friend of mine, Adele Ressie, had told me that, an entrepreneurship,
it’s always the darkest before the dawn. And I thought that, yo, maybe that is it, maybe this was just a test
to go a little bit further and see it through, but at the same time, it was the right thing to do, but at the same time, there are moments when you have to walk away, and just try to learn from them, because that’s all anybody wants from you is to show that you tried
and that you learned from something and that you did it better or did it differently the next time. – Appreciate it, my friend. As the guest of today’s show,

“but don’t come close to
achieving what I want, “will I have wasted my time?” – Go Chase. You can ask it again. – One more time. – [Voiceover] Malik asked,
“If I pursue what I think “is my passion, but don’t
come close to achieving “what I want, “will I have wasted my time?” – No because there’s really
only one thing in life is doing exactly. – The Jets, sorry go ahead. – Which is doing exactly what
you’re supposed to be doing. That doesn’t come from out here. I’ve lived this exact problem. I did what everybody else wanted me to do for the first chapter of my life. – Who was that? That your parents? – The world. – I agree, the market, the market. – Supposed to be a doctor, a lawyer or in some shit or something else and I literally. – Guys by the way who
are watching were old. Back then doctor lawyer was like. – You’re so smart. – Doctor, lawyer. – Yeah, respect. – When’s the last time an 18 year old now is like you should be a doctor or a lawyer. That’s like. – That profession is
going to run out of people to do the work. – It’s insane. That just took me to such a weird place. You should be a doctor or a lawyer or an accountant. Accountant was in the mix. – That was the list. My parents were amazingly supportive. This didn’t really come from my parents. But just culturally that’s where. – Your friend’s parents were sort a son of a bitch, right. I fucking hate the friends’ parents. – The counselor at school. – I never went to my
guidance counselor, ever. Four years of high school, never went. – They don’t know shit. They’re living in a different era. I don’t want to disrespect those folks. – I disrespect different era. – Different era. That being said I serve somebody else for a long time. Emotionally mentally
even trying to reconcile being an artist and athlete. That was because I was paying attention with the culture wanted for me. But that’s all bullshit. There’s only one thing. – Go ahead. Get them both. – You’re right there. There’s only one thing. You doing what you’re supposed
to be doing in the world. You can pay your dues. I have a lot of respect for working hard, digging ditches, doing stuff to survive. Practicality you call it. But let’s be real, you have to do the things that’s in here. Otherwise you’re just burning time. – I’m going to throw in addition, yes. In addition. – You always say yes and that’s what you’re supposed to do. – Is that the improv thing? – Yes, yes. – No but I will say this. (laughter) Countercultural Mike. Mike is just my fake name for general people. Self-awareness. My big thing more than anything is
do not live on regret. So I definitely am also on team being happy will always trump more money at the end at the end at the end. So I try to play that way. Luckily for me mine collided together. But if you know you. And you know like money like money. Like money. Like you just are obsessed by money. Then maybe you should do the thing that makes you the most money because you wouldn’t sit there one day and say damn I wish I was an artist. Now if you’re the other way. – That’s like this in here and you have to be honest
what you want to be. Do you want to be a needlepoint expert. But you want to make 10 million dollars. – That’s fake. – Those two things don’t go together. So you’ve got to be real. – I mean it’s self-awareness
like a reverse engineer yourself to not have regrets. Having regrets in your
70s, 80s and 90s is literally to me the worst thing that can happen in life for sure. – What’s the asker’s name? – Malik. – Malik, seriously in here. The answers are all in here. – Chase I will say this though and this is something
I’ve spent a lot of time with the show on. – Are we really going to go here? – Yes.
– Ok. – I do believe that you and I got lucky by having self-awareness and emotional intelligence isn’t you know. – It’s the new black. – For sure. By the way. It’s always been the black. It’s just being put front and center. – For sure. I just want to make sure
we’re giving practical advice saying like follow from what’s in here. I have family members who
literally have no fucking idea what’s in here. I know them cold. They have no idea. – That’s actually thing one is
you’ve got to figure it out. And the way they figure out is to live your life, get in adventures and do stuff. – You know what. I’m so on that. Test and learn between 20 and 30 to me is hot. I’m hot on this idea that if you really want to live the best life you can live. The new game plan is from 20 to 30 test a lot of things because the downside the risks you could go risky. You’ve got bigger upside than downside. – Classic Richard Branson. Mitigate the downside. That’s literally why Creative Live exists. So you can take thousands classes from the world’s best people. And you can literally dabble. And it’s not just dabble in community college, you’re taking it from
Pulitzer Prize winner, New York Times bestseller, this guy. Smart, smart people. Get you hands dirty. – We’re going to use for 17 hours Let’s go, India. (inaudible)

If you’re starting– – Hold on, if you had a
question that you’ve wanted to ask me for a very long time, how the hell wasn’t that the
question you started with? – You needed that preface. – Got it, okay, go ahead. – Okay, so the question is, knowing we have a successful business, we have money in the bank, everything’s great,
business is still growing, everything’s awesome, – God bless, go ahead. – Yay (chops words), but, the thing is, who would be your first
five, like, you have, say, customer service hired. – Yes, – And, well, a marketing person, but who’d be your next five hires. – I’d have to look at your
business and understand, so, first of all– – E-commerce. – So, first of all, I’d reverse– – Product. – First and foremost, I would
reverse-engineer you two. Whatever you two like doing
the most and are the best at, I would surround the hires around that. I’d let you continue to do that, ’cause a lot of people try to replace the thing they’re best
at, that’s a mistake. Stay doing what you do
best at, and whatever the two of you collectively
do the weakest, that’s when you hire, in
order, five next people. – Alright. – Whether that’s finance, HR,
product, e-comm, technology, whatever they are. – But, what’s been your most
best hire for you in that first kind of, in that Wine Library
when you scaled, what was one of the best hires
for you, that, you’re like– – The best hires I’ve ever made have been the friends that I’ve hired. That’s the big secret for me, but– – Position-wise. – Probably the financial
people, you know, like the CFOs, the lead financial person,
have been the best hires, ’cause they’ve given me a context to, hey, ’cause I’m so aggressive, I
want to spend every dollar, so that gives a vulnerability. The reason I’ve never
got out of businesses is, I’m so much better at
selling than everybody else in the world, I can always keep the flows, even against my enormous investment. Um, I, so, I, at VaynerMedia, I would say, Marc Yudkin, a lawyer, creating Legal in-house was a huge hire, Kelly, an early mananging director because she created a lot of context,
and then people that look like Eric which were
disproportionately talented and open to allow me to mold, because we were all playing a new game. People that are moldable but
talented are very attractive. – That’s a good one, yeah, cool.

“to swear to make a point?
Surely business credibility “is better built without swearing? – You were excited about
asking this question? I don’t feel like I need
to swear to make a point. I also don’t agree that
business credibility is lost when you curse. Business
credibility is lost when you curse when the judge
of your credibility is a d or f player and
somebody that is making surface level decisions. As a
matter of fact, I would argue that, at times, I use my cursing
as a filter to filter out the people that are not capable of seeing the bigger picture,
versus being so blocked. “Oh my god. I heard the word (bleep). I can’t hear anything else.
Everything else must be bad. There’s no good advice,
this is a bad person.” That is ludicrous. It
goes into the same context as the way you dress, or
a million other variables of ways people that will judge you– See, when you’re great, you
can dress in all red, all red. You can blend into phone booths. I mean, you can dress how you want. You can talk how you want.
Because at the end of the day, the way you deliver is all
that people really care about. And the way you make them feel. I’m not cursing to disrespect someone. I have empathy and respect
why a lot of people may not like me, or consume me. There are plenty of people
that don’t watch this video because they saw a keynote where I cursed and they were offended, and
they are no longer in my set. Surely, I would have a bigger
audience if I didn’t curse. That is absolutely true.
And business respect, sure. I may lose out on a deal
because they were offended. But in the net, net, net
score, I win so many more by being me and just being me
versus creating a half-version of me for the one conservative
person and leaving the hundreds of magic
business opportunities, that are predicated on
winners making decisions. So, yeah. I’m completely
in disagreement with you. I don’t believe either one of us are successful because of our cursing or non-cursing,
I think it has a lot more to do with a lot of things that
matter a hell of a lot more than some choice four letter words. – [India] From Cherise.

– [Voiceover] Ari asks,
“How can I deal with “the perfectionism and
feeling like someone else “can do it better preventing
me from getting stuff done?” – I don’t even understand, do it again. How can I what? – How can, like, what do you do- – No no, read it again, I
was like, you went too fast. – Okay, “how can I deal
with perfectionism- – “How can I deal with perfectionism?” – Ari. – Ari, go ahead. I understand, not me, thanks India. – “and feeling like someone
else can do it better “preventing me from getting stuff done?” – Got it, so, he not only
wants everything to be perfect, he always has a sense that
somebody else can do it better. – Yeah, probably. – Ari, you need to get over yourself. Like, you know, the reality is, I think speed trumps so
much that I’m blown away by people that get caught up in this and really, it just leads to
you being disproportionately not successful because you’re too slow, you’re overthinking
things, and I feel like, a lot of times, people screw things up by trying to do too much
instead of just letting it be. That’s why I like doing one take. It just, it’s gonna be what it’s gonna be. You get another at bat
another day in the future. I don’t know if I can motivate
you through this answer to say, you know, get
over yourself, move on, change, I think it is a DNA thing, I think it’s tough for people
to break out of that habit. I’m absolutely massively thankful that I’m completely the other way. I probably go too fast,
I probably only execute at 94%, 96%, 87%, 91%, 86%, consistently, but I’d
rather do five things than after I just told you that story, you doing one thing at 97%,
not even 100 to begin with. There is no 100% Ari, it’s
just not the way it really is. The market decides if it was good or if somebody can do it better. There’s a level of anxiety
and a little bit of, like, getting over it that you’re
just gonna have to do. The fact that you’re asking the question means you’re self-aware
that it’s an issue. I think the best way to
get things done in life is to just do them. You’re gonna learn how to
swim by jumping in the pool and learning how to swim. I think the number one thing you can do is make the next four to six projects and make it painful for yourself, just let it go, see what happens, when you start tasting
like, oh wait a minute, that wasn’t so bad, away you go. – Nice. From Eli. – People overthink, India. It’s overthinking, guys. It just, it’s overthinking. – You ready?

“Gary, you talk about in your early years, “you didn’t say anything
and just built your brand. “How do you know when to
switch to the next level?” – You know, I think, you know, listen. There’s a lot of people who never switch. Who says you have to switch to
become an outward personality or you want to, I wanted
that, I love, you know, mom, you’ll like this,
because I know you’re watching now that I mentioned you and
you’re paying extra attention. You know, my mom loved me so much, to such a high level, I
feel that I’m a good guy because I want the love and
admiration from all of you because I still want that
feeling, I like that feeling, and it’s crazy, I’m starting
to really, really understand that that’s what, I’m like, why am I, why do I even care to be a good guy when it’s so easy not to? It’s because I really like
the feeling of being loved. I mean, just, it’s super,
and there’s only one way to do that, which is
to provide love first. And so, you know, I
think that making that, I needed that, I needed
to be out in the open, mass love or whatever I’m looking for, but not everybody needs that. Do you know how many people, for every Mark Cuban or
Richard Branson, right, for every one of those
kinds of entrepreneurs that are out there, you know, there’s so many that you’ve never heard of building hundred, do you know
how many people right now have a hundred million dollar business, a five hundred million dollar business, that you’ve literally never heard of? Countless. Go look at Forbes 400 richest people. You’d be flabbergasted how many of them you’ve never heard of. So, you don’t have to make the switch to become a personal
brand, or be out there, you know, do you know how many people push the other way, who never wanna be, use the money, actually, to not be known? They just wanna keep getting the money. It depends what drives you. Money is fine, but its a
byproduct of what drives me, which is building community,
creating a legacy, empowering people, it’s equally selfish as it is, you know, noble, and so I think, first, it starts
with knowing yourself and recognizing you don’t have to. One could argue that
if I didn’t need that, I’d have a 500 million dollar
wine business right now. So it’s not necessarily always
about making more money, it’s about checking the
boxes that make you happy. Like, going to a Jets game. That makes me very happy.

“with someone who is constantly negative “about entrepreneurship?
And what if it’s your mom?” – Louie, I I think the biggest way
to handle that is to stick it to your mom. I think you go out and you execute, and then you tell your mom I told you so. You were wrong mom. You know what’s great
about entrepreneurship? The market, business, life is it’s a net net gain, meaning at the end of the day,
either your mom’s right or you’re right. She’s negative about
entrepreneurship with you. Louie, she doesn’t think you can do it. I don’t think your mom, over arching doesn’t believe that
entrepreneurship exists or is an option. She just doesn’t believe in you. Now, I’m drilling you right now, because I’m trying to light a fire in your ass to be like, really pissed, the way I get. Nothing excites me more
than the adrenaline that I get. Right now I’m fired up for you Louie. I’m making pretend that I’m you Louie, and I’m so god damn pissed. I wanna literally punch
my mom in the face. That’s how I feel, and so, but like figuratively. I’m not condoning
violence against your mom. My moms my favorite person on earth. My mom is the compete opposite. No one believed in me more or ever will. That being said Louie, she doesn’t not believe
in entrepreneurship. She doesn’t believe that
you’re an entrepreneur. Now the question is back to my self-awareness
content that I’ve been pushing out a lot, maybe she’s right. Maybe you’re delusional. The real question is who else in your ecosystem does believe? And more importantly,
forget about everybody else. This is really the crooks
of the whole damn thing. Do you believe? Right, because I think one of the weird things that has happened in my life that I think has created the scenarios of my existence is I have an incredible ability. I’ve had my whole life to literally tune out every other voice except my own, and I think that it’s
equally a vulnerability. I have no mentors for that reason. I love my parents. I would give them the mentor mantle, but I really don’t. I literally just listen to my own voice, and so if you’re lucky as I am, and I know millions of people are I’m sure to be able to tune out everybody, if you believe you’re an entrepreneur then you’re set. I would argue the fact
that you’re even asking me this question means
that you’ve put weight into your mom’s opinion, which I think needs to be dissected by you to begin with, because I put zero weight into anybody’s opinion about myself because I know exactly who I am.