This is the Gary V. Audio Experience.

The passion is the ingredient that most matters in success.

I agree, but here's how I think about it.

Without passion, nobody.

If Tony Hawk didn't, wasn't passionate about skateboarding.

If I wasn't passionate about becoming one of the great entrepreneurs of a generation.

If LeBron wasn't passionate about basketball,

they wouldn't have put in, I wouldn't have put in, the hours, the work.

When it all makes no sense, when it's 10-30 at night tonight,

and I've got to go to one more meeting, but I've got to wake up at 5-30.

And, you know, if I didn't have the passion for the game, I wouldn't do it.

I would cancel it. I wouldn't have booked it in the first place.

And so, it becomes the gateway drug religion that allows you to do the tactical things.

I have a vision to where we're going in the future.

I come up with stuff every day that very few people are thinking about.

And then, in parallel, and it's one of the biggest reasons I still have a personal brand,

I use Instagram and Snapchat and Facebook and Twitter every single day.

I'm a practitioner. I get my hands dirty. I'm the architect and the Mason.

So, I, over this past year, I was working at a startup and then recently got laid off

or was made redundant in December of the year.

I was at a point in my life where I was in sales and I was pretty into it.

I was like, all right, this is working for me.

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