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🗓️ 10 July 2017
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Hope you all enjoy this mashup that my thoughts on college are defined from. I'm not saying that there's no benefit in pursuing further education, just that the system isn't running at what it should be. The amount of knowledge I gained going to college, and school for that matter wasn't related to learning about business, but it was learning about people. ;)
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0:00.0 | Hey guys, it's Gary Vay, Nerd Chuck, and this is the GaryVee audio experience. |
0:11.0 | If you feel like college taught you valuable business tools, or do you feel like majority of your business knowledge came from other sources? |
0:17.0 | I feel like all of my business knowledge came from other sources. I learned nothing in college. |
0:23.0 | From a business standpoint, I learned a lot about from college, from a from a growing up as a man standpoint, from a swag standpoint, from a basketball standpoint, from a hip hop music standpoint, zero business. |
0:40.0 | I'm scared. I'm super scared. I'm scared because I know exactly what happens this month every year, every year for the rest of time. |
0:49.0 | I'm scared because I know that there are so many of you that graduate this month and have no fucking idea what you want to do. |
1:02.0 | And that's okay. Most people don't. You should not be stressed about that. I'm actually not scared about that. |
1:09.0 | I'm scared that you don't realize that you're entering the greatest five-year window of your life. |
1:14.0 | If you are 22 years old and graduating from college, if you're 22 years old and not graduating from college, if you are 22 years old, you are entering first of all some of the greatest years of your life. |
1:28.0 | A, but B, this. This is the moment. Watch this video twice. If mama's watching this, send this to your daughter Sally right now. |
1:37.0 | Because you have to understand this next five-year window is when you don't go practical and safe. This is not the time to get the job mom wanted you to. |
1:47.0 | This is not the time to try to maximize this much money so you can buy a fat whip. This is the time to realize that you have a five-year window and it's three for some, it's eight for others, but this is a five-year window. |
2:00.0 | For you to attack the life that you want to win, not because it's the secret or because the world's so zen, because it's fucking hard to shit out there. |
2:10.0 | As a matter of fact, I'm probably more scared about your naivete to how hard class is easy, right? What you've been doing for the last 16 years is easy. It's a fucking bullshit game. It's structured. It's easy. |
2:22.0 | The world, this thing, this thing is hard. However, that contradicts what I'm going to tell you right now, which is this is the best and easiest five years of your life because this is when you need to attack what you love and what you want to do. Here's why. |
2:38.0 | You don't have all the baggage. You may have college loans, respect, it's hard as shit. You may have the expectations of your parents, mentally hard, fake hard. You may have a lot of other things, but this is exactly when you can live with four rooms. |
2:52.0 | You can have your own mates in a basement and eat fucking fast food. Do you understand? This is not when the baby's there, some of your babies, this is not when you've been married and you promised this is not when the world has sucked out all your dreams and hopes yet. |
3:08.0 | You still got this window and yet so many of you are so hungry for short term, short term gains, like maximizing the job that paid you $3,000 more, but it's not as fun, but you want that $3,000 for what? |
3:23.0 | For what? For a new iPhone? For what? You get to live life one time and this is the time right now to understand what's actually happening and actually map your behavior to something that will impact you for the next 80 years. |
3:36.0 | So promise me, promise me all you youngsters that are watching this right now in the fucking comments because I'll jump in and talk to you. Promise me that you understand that the land grab of happiness starts right now. |
3:49.0 | That you don't have to worry about getting that job, what you should do is go and travel and learn. Go and start that business that you've always wanted. |
3:57.0 | Hook up with those three teammates and start that band you've always wanted. This is the time to be massively risk, massively risk oriented. |
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