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Hey podcast, Joe from Team Gary here.

Today's episode is an interview that Gary did with a fan named Alia where he talks about laziness and how it's often misunderstood.

Enjoy.

So I was telling Mahal about how I relate to you in the way that you used to think about school a lot and I really feel like the same.

And I have that entrepreneurial mindset that that that you have and I when I I always I follow you on TikTok and Instagram when I watch videos every day and every time I hear you talk about something that I can relate to.

I like I could be see relate to it and and me and my parents always have this debate about school and I tell them like I want to I want to start a business.

I want to get into dropshipping I want to do this and then my there's like no do chemistry and then you know all of that so it's so when I heard that my dad was was working with you.

I was like that I watch Gary V. Every day is one of my ideas like really and then he's like I'll try my best to get it to meet you and when he told me that that he organized the meeting it was like this is like the best thing I could ever ask for and so I want to really thank you so much for this amazing opportunity.

Of course you can't imagine how that feels to be heard so thank you so much for those kind words is there anything you want to focus on on this conversation.

I mean I just I want to I want to get your perspective on on what I should do your advice on on how I should.

Because like obviously there's the side of my parents telling me one thing and the side of what I really want to do and then there is also this like little place that it's like my parents are providing me with everything and they're really amazing and I love them so much and and they give me great advice but on this specific thing I really feel like I want to I want to try and explore my.

My strength and my weaknesses and learn from my mistakes if I if I start a business or drop shipping or whatever it is early and I just I can't get it across my parents I think a lot of times people in life think about or when the answer is actually and you know I I wasn't able to convince my parents either to not go to college.

You know I didn't want to and I went for four years because I love my parents so much and I just you know I think you know I'm sure my heart can tell the same thing and anybody who's lived a little bit getting comfortable with being uncomfortable for a period of time is actually a great life skill and honestly you know no matter how much including myself one loves entrepreneurship the vacation.

That is being young and just going to school is you know that's what the reason I was able to be okay the last four or five years mentally was I basically said well this will be my last real vacation before I go into my real life and so you know I think what I was fortunate was my parents didn't stop me from doing business stuff on the side.

Obviously I worked for my family's liquor store business and I was doing my sports card and flipping garage selling and so you know if you're in a position where your parents aren't completely stopping you from doing things on the side and saying no you can't you you you're forbidden you must only study if you're lucky enough that you can do both I would tell you that you've plenty of time in front of you what you want but I do think the sooner you.

You can start tasting you know drop shipping influencer marketing NFT cryptocurrency all this stuff looks easy on paper it's good in theory but then when you do it it's much harder than people think and I think the sooner you can taste the ups and the downs it's kind of like exercising you'll be more prepared for when you do it full time it's like prepping for a fight.

You'll be ready for the fight so I think you know are you are you in a position where you can start doing some of this stuff on the side.

I think I can what I spoke to my dad about was doing this in summer and and one of my and my dad had a meeting with the with the American businessman and he he's based in Arizona and he has a lot of friends in real estate and everything and he came to our house.

A week ago and I have plans to go and visit him in Arizona and and expand my knowledge about because I'm really interested in real estate as well the real estate in the future so so I basically plan my whole summer to do that and and what what my my dad tells me a lot is that he is that I'm lazy and I don't disagree with him.

I can be I have the tendency to be lazy but I also you're lazy because you're disinterested.

Exactly exactly when I was 13 to 18 I was told by many many people that I was lazy they just happened to be people that were at school you know and maybe my grandma sometimes around the house because I didn't want to hang a picture but you know I

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