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Gary Vaynerchuk

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4.8 • 18.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2015

⏱️ 16 minutes

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The amount of "buts" I hear is actually stunningly overwhelming. I pride myself on not being a but guy (no double meaning intended). The buts that I hear the most are "I didn't have any money", "I didn't have a chance", "I grew up in a poor neighborhood", "I didn't have a mentor". People are loaded with buts in life; that's why the majority of people fall into a standard life.

For me personally, my "but" is usually that I love the process and the climb. If I don't achieve the maximum upside in my career, it's going to be predicated on the fact that I loved the climb too much. I liked the grind too much, and that didn't allow me

to scale and create the level of wealthy needed to pull it off.

But I do hear way too many "buts" from people. But is an excuse.

BUT ... :) before I finish with my ra-ra scenario, let's understand that there is some very real stuff going on in the world. You could be born in a part of the world where there is a dictator or communism. Do I think it's easy as to be a female entrepreneur in the Middle East as it is to be in New York City? No. Of course not. Just like any white male born in a semi affluent environment is bound to have a leg up on minorities in poor communities.

But there is a flipside to this. The hustle that you get from coming from the grind is a huge advantage. Some people think you're dead on impact, that

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0:00.0	On this episode, I talk about negative reviews that are anonymous, the butt, and the climb.
0:07.0	Everybody, this is Gary Vay, nerd Chuck, and this is episode 79 of the Ask GaryVee show.
0:30.0	Thanks for being on with me.
0:32.4	I'm here, Kat. What's up?
0:34.4	Yeah, I don't know a lot of the say, actually.
0:38.4	I really just don't.
0:40.4	I think we should just get into the show and focus and grow and go beard.
0:43.4	The jet, oh, how do I have nothing to say?
0:46.4	Dorel Revis has come home.
0:49.4	Nothing is more exciting to not only get back one of the great jet players of all time
0:55.4	while he still has some really solid years in him, but to take them from the dreaded, hated, awful.
1:01.4	Disgusting, worst ever, New England Patriots has been just a tremendous, tremendous feeling,
1:09.4	and I'm very happy about it. Dorel, welcome home.
1:14.4	Teresa asks, what is your butt and how do you get off of it?
1:18.4	What's the biggest butt you hear from others that's holding them back?
1:22.4	Teresa, the amount of butts that I hear is actually stunningly overwhelming.
1:28.4	I pride myself in not being a butt guy.
1:33.4	I think that the butts that I hear are all the time, I didn't have any money, I didn't have a chance,
1:41.4	I grew up in a poor neighborhood, I didn't have a mentor, I didn't get the lucky break.
1:45.4	People are loaded with butts. It's why the majority of people fit into the standard of one's life.
1:53.4	Whatever those ambitions may be, I think that for me, my butt is usually...
1:57.4	But I love the process, I love the climb. When I don't achieve the maximum upside in my career,
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