#AskGaryVee Episode 154: Chase Jarvis Answers Questions on the 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)

“100 years into the past “or 100 years into the future “and why?” – Past, I would make so much fucking bank. I’d buy the Jets for $10,000 in 1963 and I’d be good. (inaudible) – I’ll make fucking money, India. – I’m just saying. – Everything on the planet. – Please not even close. – This is Gary. [India] I don’t know if I’ll admit that. – Admit what? – [India] He didn’t mean
to see in the future. – You didn’t mean that Alan, got it. [India] I think Alan mean
you can see in the future. – I tricked you I said
with what you know now, you said yes. – Emotionally we were talking about. – Get out of here. I know you bullshit. Alright, let’s take a step back. If you don’t know anything and you land and you don’t know anything, you didn’t know that you did that, I would go to the future only
because I right now as a human know what happened over the last 100 years and the upside is not knowing. – I put my answer through
the exact same filter. If I know everything I’d go backwards and do some really powerful shit. Don’t know anything go forward and send me to the future. – I’d be like this Microsoft
company feels right.

“dear Gary, in episode 122 you
say at 22 to 24 don’t settle. “What is the settling age? “I thought you should never settle?” – That’s so weird that’s so funny. – That’s coming right from
something he told you. – Yes, yes. What’s interesting is
we just talked about it though how I just said from 20 to 30 that’s funny that’s interesting timing. I think first of all I
think every goddamn answer on this show has to be very personal meaning, if you and your boyfriend or girlfriend. Have a baby when you’re both seventeen because that’s what happened in your life practicality enters your world. – Casey I was just at Casey’s. – That’s exactly right. Practicality comes knocking. What’s up man practicality here. You’re a different 17 year old because you have a child coming. – Something you’re going to know you’re going to have to raise a child. – So for every single
person that’s watching. I think practicality or settling, because they’re cousins they don’t have to be the exact same thing but their cousins in them, comes at different times. I do think. Look I know a lot of 40 to 50 year olds that are still living in outer space and dreaming. And I think there’s diminishing returns at some level around that. Especially if it hasn’t happened already. Unless their happy. Unless their happy. – But isn’t practicality
the thing you dip into because you can be living your dream. Pretending live in fantasy land but you’ve got to pay rent. You’ve got to eat. And sometimes that actually dip into real life. Is what motivates your passion. Those two things they. – That’s Casey’s favorite answer, right? – Is it? Casey’s favorite answer, I think he said in the show was do something you hate. to realize how much you
want to do something else. Go wash dishes like he did. – Unbelievably motivating. – What the thing you did the most, in your life, what’s the thing you did the most that you hated? – I went to school for fucking ever. – Yeah. – Forever. – From six to 18 I hated life. – That’s why I love it so much now. I’m not in fucking English class. – Seriously we got to put a
filter on this culturally. This is a real thing. People are going to college
for all the wrong reasons. Do you need a piece a paper that says you have to have
a piece of paper to cut someone open? I want my doctor to be certified. I want my airline pilot to be certified. Anything else? Why, maybe there’s some value there. If you’re exploring. If you’re trying to figure your shit out schools a reasonable thing. The average person graduates
college at $35,200 in debt. That’s the average. So for everybody who
graduates with only 10 grand, there’s someone who graduates with 50. That’s bullshit. – Preaching. I’ve been pumping out some serious content around this issue. So the answer is it
different for everybody. Some people get practical at 16. They don’t have that risk tolerance. – Or you figure it out. There is a practicality
when you figure out what you want to do. Then you got to get to work. Would you call that practical? – Here’s what I truly think. I think shit is really hitting the fan. The Internet, I don’t know if you’ve heard of it obviously all of us have, it’s only 20 years old. I know it’s been around for a long time. I know there’s nerds that say, I know. I mean when Windows 95 came out, normal people started
going on the Internet we are 20 years into this thing. This thing is fundamentally
the biggest culture shift of our time.
– For sure. – They’ve changed everything. We’re just starting and all the rules need to be thought about in a very aggressive way because there’s so many
alternatives to the way that we always thought. The amount of people that go to college Because that’s what their parents want because their parents were
sold on the propaganda of college before that– – It’s literally about
their ego most of the time. – 100 percent. – My son went to this, went to this. – I made a shirt called Shmarvard. That is literally my
number one selling t-shirt. It’s not even close. – I saw it. Is it blue? – Yes, yes. India? – I didn’t know the story that’s good. – [Voiceover] Isham asked,

“would you say the “T” in
timing is way more important “than the “T” in talent?” – Not even close for me. – Uh, what? – No, Isham. – Isham. – Isham. – Do not disrespect this show. – The show. Timing is a talent in itself. – In 2006 after carefully
watching YouTube for five months, I just got lucky I decided to go on it. Luck timing for me. Oh weird. No, no, no. There was talent and understanding That this platform was
going to be meaningful. You got so lucky with
your timing with YouTube. Bullshit motherfucker. I fucking paid attention. It’s going there. There was talent in understanding that this was going to be important and I put time and effort to learn it. Weird here I am. Weird here’s YouTube. Timing is a talent in itself. One of the most important talents, Chase. – For sure. It’s Isham? – Yes. – Isham talent, cultivate it. What are you good at? What do you love? That’s what matters. Timing I guess it matters in the sake of getting hit by a bus. But that’s about it. – Too many people think
you were at the right place at the right time. Let me tell you something Isham and everybody else, if the internet didn’t come along, I would have 17,000
liquor stores right now. Would’ve been a great timing
for bricks and mortar. Talent trumps all. It is the absolute variable. Period end of story. – Hardwork’s in there. I love the hustle, I love the hustle. – Talent without hard work is pretty much. – I do think talent is a variable. – Timing it’s not even close. – Timing, but I will say this. If I work 16 hours a day
on my basketball game I am not going to be an NBA player. – For sure. – Talent is the variable. What hard work does is
it maximizes that talent of whatever you’re deploy
that hard work against. – Isham I’m sorry about that, real.

Star Wars or Star Trek? Or both? – Star Wars, not Star Trek. – Star Wars not Star Trek, too. How old are you? – I’m 43. – That makes sense. I’m 39. That’s like the golden year. If you were 52, if we asked Peter he
might’ve been Star Trek. Because Star Trek was earlier. There’s not a lot of 32
to 40 year old Star Trek. There is a fun pocket of maybe 35 to 42. There is a funny pocket of 30 to 35 where they was Star
Trek The Next Generation during a lull of Star Wars
where it popped a little bit. Quick side question of
the day get in there Star Trek or Star Wars and your age. I think people will realize. – That’s a good question of the day. – I think Star Trek is really 48 and above and then a weird little
pocket of 30 to 32. – There’s a couple of people
who are really Star Trek. It’s an interesting cultural thing, but Star Wars. – Do you love star Wars? – I don’t. I don’t freak out over fantasy.
Like Game of Thrones. – Star Wars is the only thing I go for. Like I’ll go see Star Wars opening night. – For sure. That’s a cultural thing. For me it was a big thing because the Jets, Star Wars, these were some of the few
pillars that made me an American when I first came. – I have all of the
Star Wars action figures and all their guns. – Do you still have them? – Yeah they’re worth some money. – No they’re not send them to me. (laughter) Chase you get the floor for
the last couple seconds.