How Practicality Leads To Happiness
The GaryVee Audio Experience
Gary Vaynerchuk
4.8 • 18.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2019
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
A lot of people are in jobs they don’t like because they tie themselves down with expenses that don’t actually make them happy.
It’s an issue for so many … the truth is, a lot of people would rather “look the part” and posture to their friends like they’re building a business instead of doing “unsexy” things that’ll make them money and bring them closer to leaving jobs they don’t like.
0:25 - If you work somewhere but want your own business
1:09 - Don’t buy dumb shit
2:22 - Practicality = happiness
4:40 - Why are you living your life based on other people’s opinions?
7:52 - This is the greatest time to be a human being
9:59 - Having empathy > hawking your brand
14:00 - Social media’s golden era will go away
People will realize how important this message is in a few years … watch and tweet me what you thought @GaryVee with the hashtag #GVAudioExperience
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| 0:00.0 | Thanks guys for listening. Please, please, please share the podcast and make sure you've subscribed |
| 0:08.6 | because a bunch of you aren't subscribed and more importantly a bunch of you listen every day and have |
| 0:13.5 | and told your friends it's the best podcast in the world. I'm watching. Have a great day. |
| 0:18.0 | How many people here work somewhere but really want to have their own business or hustle? Raise your hands. |
| 0:26.7 | A lot. For me the internet is for you. For me if I set that with these two dudes, the black shirt and the |
| 0:34.3 | white shirt right in this third row and they both raised their hands. For me it's not about cut if I |
| 0:38.8 | was sitting down with you for three hours it's not about coming up with a business that's going to do |
| 0:42.0 | 10 million bucks. It's about understanding how much money you make now working a job, what you spend |
| 0:48.1 | your money on to live and trying to figure out how quickly you can get into a place where you don't |
| 0:54.1 | have to work in a job. One more time. How many hands works somewhere but want to do their own thing? Raise |
| 1:01.0 | your hands. More than half this audience. Meanwhile let me tell you why most of the hands that just |
| 1:08.5 | went up will never get there. They buy dumb shit. Do you know how many people here literally drive |
| 1:17.8 | cars to impress people that they fucking hate? People literally going in debt or getting further from |
| 1:27.0 | leaving the job they don't like to do something that will make them happy because they have to buy a |
| 1:31.3 | certain car that has a logo that impresses people that they fucking despise. Do you understand how |
| 1:38.8 | fucked up that is? Do you know how many people here live in homes where they don't use more than half |
| 1:45.1 | the rooms in the house? Like we are so fundamentally in a vortex that makes no sense that I am unbelievably |
| 1:55.6 | passionate understanding how much money you make and what you can do to get off of it but the problem |
| 2:00.3 | is again people are doing so many things to keep up with the Joneses to make it look like they're |
| 2:05.4 | successful to appease their parents and a million fucking other things that have nothing to do with |
| 2:10.4 | themselves and we need to change that fucking game and thank you. And the internet is the most |
| 2:20.9 | likely thing. The internet is a place where you can make $54,000 a year just talking about peanut butter. |
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