This is the Gary V. Audio Experience.

What's incredibly clear to me, what's incredibly clear to me at this point in my career is that

from a business standpoint and clearly from a life standpoint, I think we grossly underestimate perspective.

I really genuinely believe that life is exactly as you see it.

I believe that there are inherently people who are cynical.

And because of that, they're just going to believe things are not good or stacked against them.

And I think there are people who are optimistic.

I think there are people who are practical and delusional and all those things that I think many of you have heard about.

But there are a couple things that really stood out for me during this last 18 months.

And it really is interesting that one of the categories I'm spending a lot of time on right now that a lot of you know is NFT land.

And the way I got there is what's most interesting to me and what I thought about what do I want to talk about tonight,

what can actually bring some value, what's something that somebody can build off of.

I really think it's time we start talking about curiosity a little bit more.

So I've become incredibly passionate about curiosity.

I think that in self-reflection mode, so much of what works for me,

there's many things that are part of the equation, there's many ingredients that get me there.

But curiosity is not something I saw or really even understood as part of the equation.

And I think when I think of the collective in this room, something that is very obvious to me is in our current society,

we start to demonize curiosity pretty quickly.

We get a couple of years of it as a kid, but then just subconsciously, it's not some crazy agenda, but subconsciously,

we start going into places that overvalue how it's been done, the black and white, this system.

So much of what I've always felt as an entrepreneur was a vulnerability of a school system,

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