Mastering Patience, Tenacity, and the Power of Positivity
The GaryVee Audio Experience
Gary Vaynerchuk
4.8 • 18.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I get real about the balance between patience and tenacity—two traits that seem like opposites but are both critical for success. I share some personal stories that shaped my understanding of how the positivity and negativity we surround ourselves with can make or break us. I also dive into the power of public accountability and why it's crucial to own up to your challenges. Leadership isn't about being the boss—it's about serving your team and being self-aware enough to know when you're wrong. If you're serious about growing in business and in life, this episode will give you the tools to do it by mastering patience, tenacity, and positivity. Let's get into it.
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| 0:00.0 | Write down a piece of paper, the people you spend the most time with, then look at it and score them on positivity and negativity. |
| 0:06.3 | If they're the most positive, they're 10. If they're negative, they're one the most. |
| 0:11.2 | And anything in between, look at it and anything in between. |
| 0:12.8 | Look at it and spend less time with the people |
| 0:15.4 | that have low scores. |
| 0:16.3 | You are the byproduct of the positivity |
| 0:18.3 | and the negativity that you consume. |
| 0:20.7 | The end. Well, I referenced it. |
| 0:24.0 | Candor was a real challenge for me. |
| 0:26.0 | You know, my mom is not super candorous. |
| 0:28.0 | My dad is incredibly candorous, |
| 0:30.0 | but he delivered it in such a negative way |
| 0:32.0 | that I think I demonized the value of candor. |
| 0:35.0 | I was able to 95% of the time successfully figure it out without candor, which is a very high ratio. I just got to the |
| 0:45.8 | point of my life where the 5% didn't feel good enough anymore. You know, I just |
| 0:50.8 | kind of like there was a Facebook group of former employees talking negatively about me and I was just like this shouldn't be I don't care about the money. I love people like Like this shouldn't be. |
| 1:03.3 | And I'm like, the only thing I do poorly |
| 1:05.4 | is I don't give people critical feedback |
| 1:08.6 | and it fucks it up. |
| 1:09.8 | And I'm like, I gotta stop. |
| 1:11.7 | And I've really worked on myself. |
| 1:13.2 | How are you able to do that? |
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