This is the Gary V. Audio Experience.

Gary, how do you keep your productivity so damn high?

You know, for me, there's only one real answer.

It's not a very scalable answer to everybody else.

The truth is, my productivity is very high because of gratitude.

I'm so outrageously grateful for the fact that I was born in Belarus, which is the

elastic ownership in Europe.

I was born in the Soviet Union in communism as a pure 100% capitalist and was born in

a time when the Soviet Union was struggling and they traded people leaving the Soviet Union

because nobody could leave the country.

I was able to leave the country because Israel and the United States made a pact to

get Jews out of Russia by trading wheat.

I was traded for wheat, right?

So I was born luckily at a moment where in a communist regime where I was able to get

out of there, I was able to come to the greatest capitalist country in the world.

I was born to two incredibly amazing parents for different reasons.

My mom building myself a steam to a point where I think I can do anything.

My dad teaching me that, which saved my ass because boy, my bullshit are at heart, right?

And so, unfortunately, I lost three of my grandparents before I was four.

So I basically never known a lot of death in my family.

I've been given the one talent that really, I think, over indexes for success, which is

salesmanship and business skills.

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