The Real Reason Why Most People Aren’t Patient
The GaryVee Audio Experience
Gary Vaynerchuk
4.8 • 18.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2019
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
It’s very rare that someone comes to me with an idea or a project and I really think it’s going to work.
Sometimes, I’ll respond to a 27 or 28-year-old kid and tell them it’s going to “work” if they stick with it for 7 or 8 years, and they’re disappointed — because they think “34” is old.
I address it in this podcast - really hope this breaks through to a few of you.
Tweet me what you thought @GaryVee
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| 0:00.0 | Most people here will be successful if they could be more patient for longer. |
| 0:09.5 | Yet, most people will fail in here if they're dilusional and keep doing the same thing for a long time waiting for the thing to happen. |
| 0:18.3 | It's one and the same. |
| 0:20.3 | The most difficult question for me to answer is when should you stop doing what you're doing? |
| 0:26.4 | Because I actually have to spend time with you and really look under the hood to know |
| 0:32.4 | are you completely in outer space and have a terrible idea and you stink and of course we should change it. |
| 0:38.3 | Or the other thing that so many people struggle with, you're so impatient. |
| 0:44.8 | And you're so caught up in short-term metrics like how many followers you have or how many sales you made or how many leads did you generate |
| 0:53.8 | that you quit too soon because nothing happens overnight. It's one and the same. |
| 1:01.8 | Today's episode is a portion of the keynote where Gary gives some more insight into his thoughts on patients |
| 1:07.8 | and why people in their 20s try to rush to success. |
| 1:10.8 | We'd love to know which part of this he found most interesting. |
| 1:12.8 | This tweet Gary at GaryVee on Twitter, that's GaryVeeEE on Twitter and let him know. |
| 1:23.8 | Most people are in a place where they're coming from defense and they're letting other voices dictate their actions. |
| 1:30.8 | So many of you want to be successful to prove to your parents that they were wrong and you were right to do this thing. |
| 1:36.8 | The problem with that is when you want to prove a parent wrong, how many people here are doing what they're doing? |
| 1:43.8 | Because they love it but there's a part of them that's doing it because they want to prove somebody wrong. |
| 1:50.8 | So for all the hands up including myself, the vulnerability of that is you're so hungry to prove to somebody that they're wrong, |
| 1:58.8 | that you try to go too fast because you can't wait to get to the feeling of proving somebody wrong. |
| 2:04.8 | My biggest thing is perspective. Do you have perspective? For example, do you understand how long you're going to live? |
| 2:17.8 | Like obviously we don't know anything can happen but most of this room is probably going to live for 50 to 70 years more. |
| 2:28.8 | Yet none of you act like that. |
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