This is the Gary V. Audio Experience.

My friends, in America, which is the number one competitive entrepreneurial market in the world,

to be in the top one percent of earners in America, you have to make $400,000 a year.

I really want to start talking about practicality.

This whole notion that everybody has to make millions and millions and millions of dollars is insanity.

We have to recognize if you actually have the talent to be able to do that.

Building an actual business takes talent.

You don't get to just build a million dollar business because you read a f***ing book,

or because you want it, or because the secret is going to f***ing help you do it if you wish for it enough.

It's not how shit works.

There's no 17 step process if you suck.

There's no 17 f***ing step process for me to be f***ing the best basketball player in the world.

It doesn't exist. There's no f***ing 17 step process to make me f***ing be on say.

It doesn't exist.

We have to, at all costs, reframe the conversation of entrepreneurship and building businesses.

If you actually took a step back and became honest with yourself and deployed self-awareness,

and understood what you were good at, and what you were bad at,

I understood that I was built like a robot, that I don't need to drink,

that I don't need to eat, that I don't need to f***ing sleep.

I need to sleep. Let me phrase.

But I definitely don't need to eat and drink, right?

To work 18 hours a day, and that is my competitive advantage.

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