9 Minutes to Remind You Why Gratitude Is the #1 Ingredient for Happiness
The GaryVee Audio Experience
Gary Vaynerchuk
4.8 • 18.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the GaryVee Audio Experience, I dive into the essential components of a truly happy and successful life: perspective, self-love, and a redefined sense of success. I break down why the simple act of being grateful is the foundation of my work ethic and why "luck" isn't what you think it is. I also share my unique take on the relationship between ego, humility, and self-esteem.
You’ll learn about:
The 400 Trillion to One Odds of Being You
Why Ego Is Just Pure Insecurity
The "Constellation" of Self-Esteem, Confidence, and Humility
How to Counter Hate with Love
Why You Must Be Kind to Yourself Before Anyone Else
The Strategy to Get Everyone to Love Themselves
Why We Must Change the Definition of Success from Money
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| 0:00.0 | perspective. It's so interesting to me why I deem myself happy |
| 0:05.0 | because I just am so grateful. |
| 0:07.0 | Like things like the thing we got excited about of, you know, |
| 0:10.0 | the data behind being a human being is 400 trillion to one. |
| 0:14.0 | When you just start there and you realize, |
| 0:17.0 | forget about the odds of like beating homelessness |
| 0:19.0 | or being born in the communist country, |
| 0:21.6 | just actually becoming a human. |
| 0:24.6 | Like I always make the joke of like, |
| 0:25.6 | your mom could have had another glass of wine |
| 0:27.6 | and like, where your dad could have been late |
| 0:30.6 | because of a trot. |
| 0:31.6 | The odds are so insane. |
| 0:33.6 | I'm just so grateful for what I have |
| 0:36.6 | versus what I don't have. |
| 0:38.3 | And I think people just have all these admiration and envy and all these hard |
| 0:43.3 | wiring things. To me it's perspective. Just like there's, I just |
| 0:47.3 | genuinely believe there's always somebody that has it worse and the |
| 0:50.3 | problem is that's where I default into mentally and have practiced to put myself there versus somebody's got it back. I know a lot of you say I hate luck. Let me tell you what luck is. Luck is that you were built in a way where that is genuinely the way you feel because then you actually do it because you love it and then enormously awesome shit happens to you. So how do you think I work so hard? Because I'm filled with gratitude that I was built that way. |
| 1:13.1 | Because that gift, that fucking gift is the fucking thing. |
| 1:17.2 | This is the Gary Vee audio experience. |
| 1:21.8 | I just really, really believe in what I see. |
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