#AskGaryVee Episode 179: How to Overcome a Bad Day, Encouraging Children & Advice to My Teenage Self

what changed the most I mean you know a
million things changed I started understanding the industry I like being
an operator that learns the industry by doing instead of readings for not
reading Ogilvy’s book you’re reading at age I learned and so I think my ability
to run the company increased tremendously that pounding team of six or seven three
people were all kids all the beaches friends they shorten their men now and
November 22 they’re getting close to thirty which isn’t saying much bigger
companies we have different dynamics everybody knew everybody intimately now
that happens in pockets with tremendous culture but like not every person knows
everybody not even close anymore so you got that dynamic run all sorts of cities
were big company we’re going up company it’s a very very very different yet the
energy is pretty much the same the mission of the same which has helped
clients whether they’re an NGO non profit or selling bottled water helped
themself up communicate at the best possible price in the best possible
channels to reach the biggest possible audience to create that business result
and more poorly that will treat each other tremendously well and have a real
real community here because continuity is what I’m going for continuity built
speed things that people are saying about business when you are useful ball a lot of any
use it sorry for people to follow but when your offensive line with all five
of those guys play the whole season together as they work as one it’s really
magic it’s really quite interesting when you really understand how football is
played it so it’s really a team sport more than anything when those five plane
the whole season together or two seasons together three seasons together and they
have that unity and continuity they follow the flow and that’s what I love
and businesses the reason I W my people so much am I
wanna make it so great for them as I want them to your not because I’m some
evil like Colt overlord it’s because continuity breeds speed and
I W speed more than anything and so we’re not as fast as we used to be
because we’re a little bit bigger but I’m proud of the speed and the scrapping
of the entrepreneurial spirit we have 600 that is still at least a solid
version of the first eight thank you Alan Jack bender truck yet another from
AJ about you know about AJ’s request to

hate wasting time but how do you adjust
on days nothing is going right now there’s no such thing luckily I mean I don’t remember they
were nothing went right first and foremost the way I really deal with it
if you wanna get them about this and love you know this is as long as
everybody’s healthy everything went alright I always quantified one business
doesn’t go well i default quickly to our business is bullshit about life you know
my kids look how cute my kids I look at your life like I quickly switch from I
don’t do well you know I’m not good at Welling I loved speed and I don’t like
wasting time dwelling complaining wishing hoping you know pondering how
you wish it was is the single biggest waste the time in life and in business
like the bottom line is we all wish things I wish I was six-foot-four the single best looking guy in the world
and the quarterback of the New York Jets won 19 straight Super Bowls I wish that
I wish that I mean I just wish that I wish that the same way that that’s funny
is the same way to wish that like that deal went through or that employee took
the job or that person didn’t quit or that concept didn’t work out I mean I’ve
had multiple divisions multiple strategies here at one at the
intermediate that haven’t worked in the last 12 months get were dismantling it
and so much like anything else you just like the next it’s the next play using
artistic stuff like you’re doing a Broadway play when you mess up the line
and just stop and just cry on stage you just gotta go to the next line we just
can’t keep moving forward and so how do I handle it easily I’m champ on this
issue champion I am an absolute champion on
this issue meaning like I’m prepared for the punches in the face I expect things
not to go well I it’s kind of the way proper Jets game Saturday night nobody
likes being around because I’m just devastated all bad gonna have a real do you know like I I
subconsciously like that but I like the Jets were I say that I would leave these
guys can tell you I’m only on winning in office at all times like I wish I was a little bit more
patient because I was so hungry to prove

to the world that I was a winner because
it was such a loser in school that I just worked every minute I didn’t you
know go to an extra keg party I didn’t you know like spend an extra go away in
a weekend and just do something different like I punted everything it
just went completely and utterly into I’m gonna build businesses this is who I
am and so you know maybe it would have gone on the ski trips so I can be good
skiing down into it like maybe like I would have done it with a rounded out
some stuff but the truth is in a weird way in the same way that I just talked
to you about the last question I don’t know like it’s also good I don’t i
probably like if I could speak to my high school self is that is not the way
it’s yeah I mean my high school so good news it’s gonna go it wasn’t a better I
like the den to I was antsy and I wanted to like everyone like I’m still there
but like that but I was super happy like I was like some outcasts like it by
teachers and my friends parents thought I was a loser but all my friends loved
me so let’s call it what it is when you’re fifteen you don’t give a shit
about teachers and parents you want your homies do think your cool so I was super
happy it was just trying to chip on my shoulder because unlike the all-time
great i really believe this i really believe it’s the same way that Harrison
Ford about his acting or LeBron about his basketball or or some music Whitney
Houston better singing like I did I really think young Whitney Houston a bit
greatest sitting there and saying she’s killing at a church she saying nobody
knows how great I’m really gonna be like I literally thought that I’d like I
can’t wait for them to all really know so there’s a little bit of like I can’t
wait to have my coming-out party I was I was antsy for the coming out party but
I’d probably say it like a man it’s all gonna work out great like like just do
everything you think you want to do just follow your instincts it’s gonna be good
high school reunions I know I haven’t got to talk to a lot of people on
Facebook in different places in my high school in like it’s interesting you know
I wasn’t outwardly like running through the halls and telling everybody that I
was going to be you know like I think the one thing that’s felt really nice is
like a lot of people have sent emails like it’s so nice to see you doing well
you were you were really nice and high school like that makes me feel nice
thing I think a lot of people are starting to realize on daily be that I’m
just a nice guy to be quite competitive and computational on a scary be on stage
like most people consumed from me on one likely to be a painting stuff ironically me and my competitive zone
when I’m not in business or on basketball court I’m actually kind of
completely the other way and I think that it was nice like that’s what I
don’t remember being like I forget the people are just mean in high school and
I was so self-confident that I never got dragged down to do that it’s good for
people’s for some peeps many of watching out to disclose the glory days to Jackie
jock jock jock wishes high school still

going south and no longer worth putting
energy into engagement when something’s big MySpace Twitter right now is
interesting to watch Google+ tumblr when when something gets
big you just watch organic-rich on Facebook it’s not so hard like you know
when it happens to snapchat oh I remember the days when I 25,000 people
watching my stories and i can get two thousand people to screenshot now I’ve
got four hundred thousand people watching my stories I couldn’t get and I
couldn’t get a hug people to screenshot like it’s very easy
its data you just stop feeling it when I send an email and cell four hundred
cases of wine in an hour and then set up seven years later it took me four weeks
or four months to sell that same 400 you like wait a minute and then you look at
the data and the open rates are not as good the click-through rates are not as
good the data that they’re like you know like
you just you just respond to the reaction either you’re stale and people
want to tune you out or the platform has an issue until you get to the site is it
you and you begin the same old song and dance or is it that that the platform
sucks you really thought you even though I have a lot of the same things a lot of
you watch before the energy or the routine excitement of it all you know
you’re starting to grasp IPCC’s more importantly there’s just so many view
the comments right now did you just meet me in the last 30 days YouTube Facebook leave a comment that
you just may be the last 30 days there’s always more people like nobody knows who
I am tell me everything I know it’s true you
have even recognized more on the street

hey Gary be my son loves digital media
and stuff they want to be producers any advice for why John its ok left unspoken
I think that the number one piece of advice I can give you is make them feel
like they can actually do it if that’s what they want to do you their parent
creating that permission for you to say yes you can is real now no wait please trophies yes
you can but when they put out something and everybody on youtube says it sucks
you look at them and say the market said you suck let’s try again with this
balance of I completely believe you can but let the results be the results don’t
think the result I actually see more unbelievable how bad people are
appearing I’m not kidding I’m really this is a real hot button issue for me
like this could be the transition of my career I really think perfectly parent
did what I write it transitions my career I really do because I’m
passionate about this like I’m getting closer and I’ve six-year-old daughter in
a meeting other parents are not calling out any parents I know if you’re
watching but i picking up on some things and I’ll
tell you I hate how many people were bursts it I watch a lot of parents that
are like literally like soccer like gonna be ok you know johnny is really
good no self-esteem building and then they play they lose nothing to me like a
great job of what I want which is like India you can be the greatest operator
of a museum in the history of all time and then you have to first exhibit if it
doesn’t go oh look it didn’t go well and let’s let’s backtrack and figure out why
and then I would defer my little indie I knew how she likes to read her book of
like the guy who the girl who started three businesses and failed but then in
the fourth one figured out the learnings from the three killed it like the kFC
Guy encouragement matters but reality matters just as much and you have to
create friction amongst those tuned to create the perfect storm for the young
and moldable minds and all the Baltimore mines was standing right I need comments
back to Boston on Friday let me be back