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The GaryVee Audio Experience

Audio Rant: How to Be Happy

The GaryVee Audio Experience

Gary Vaynerchuk

Business, Marketing

4.818.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2017

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Not everyone can be the #1 in their space and that’s OKAY. It all just needs to map back to what you want and what makes you happy. If Basketball is your passion but if you have no shot in being in the NBA, I can assure you’d be far happier making $80K doing something basketball-related than $150K doing something that’s not. Get it? When you get to do what you want to do and that makes you happy, you’ve won.

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0:00.0

Like, being somebody who makes $80,000 a year,

0:03.3

being a blogger about basketball,

0:06.2

is like being the 12th man on a team.

0:08.7

You made it to the league, but you're not LeBron.

0:11.4

You're one of the best basketball players in the world,

0:13.8

that nobody knows who you are, kind of thing.

0:15.2

Like, there's no shame, as a matter of fact,

0:18.6

the practicality of making $80,000 a year,

0:21.9

being a blogger about basketball, because you love it,

0:24.6

versus making 109,000 a year as a lawyer,

0:29.0

is a great arbitrage for a lot of people.

0:30.9

It's the unlocking happiness.

0:32.8

Like, is your life better, making $109,000 a year,

0:36.4

being a lawyer, versus making $80,000 a year,

0:38.8

being a full-time basketball content provider?

0:41.8

You know, I don't know people's situations.

0:43.7

You may have loans, you may have this.

0:45.1

But if you can afford it, by promise you,

0:48.2

you're gonna be way happier doing the stuff

0:49.9

that you wanna be doing.

0:51.9

And those are choices everybody has to make for themselves.

0:54.0

But when I say, not everybody's gonna be LeBron,

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