This is the Gary V. Audio Experience.

They had your neighbor for a second.

You guys look all scared. Introduce yourself.

All right.

All right. I'm a starting off since I guess I've been a part of the

film industry for as long as I can remember.

I think it's really important to understand that craft plays a really important role in the life that you all have chosen to lead.

You have to be good at it.

But just like a professional golf that would say there's 300 people who play in the PGA, you can only name two or three.

And everything beyond craft is what will help you.

You have to have craft to get in the door.

But if you don't have all the other stuff, it's going to be very hard to make the living.

And more importantly, the life that you want.

And we are co-key noting today in part because I realized over my career, the first time I came here, I showed pictures.

The second time I came here, I showed pictures and told stories.

The third time I came here on this stage, the third time I came here, I showed pictures and videos and told stories and talked about social media.

And the fourth time I came here, I've been here a lot.

The fourth time I came here, it was all about outside influences.

And if there's everything all the first one through five, I feel I got picked up and absorbed and internalized for the hundreds of folks who are sitting in the audience today.

And the thousands of people who are watching these videos after we post them.

But what has not been internalized is that the best information, influence, ideas, strategies, creative inspiration comes from outside the industry.

It comes from outside. If you're all looking at the person next to you for inspiration and they're looking to you, what happens?

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