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The GaryVee Audio Experience

The Ultimate College Graduation Speech | A Gary Vaynerchuk Original

The GaryVee Audio Experience

Gary Vaynerchuk

Business, Marketing

4.818.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2019

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

This is really really important. For all of you graduating I just want you to realize how much time you have. Be patient, follow your passion, work hard and you can make anything happen. Hope you enjoy this episode and please tweet me @garyvee and let me know what you thought

If you’ve been to 4Ds and have any feedback for this community tweet me @garyvee and for more info on the program email nick@thesashagroup.com with the month you’d like to attend.

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0:00.0

What's up podcast hope everyone is enjoying their Sunday and fired up for the

0:05.6

week. For all of you graduating soon please listen closely to this scary

0:09.0

Vaynerchuk original. I'm scared. I'm super scared. I'm scared because I know

0:13.8

exactly what happens this month every year. It's that time of year again when

0:20.3

college students turn their tassels and start a new chapter in their lives. I'm

0:25.9

scared. I'm scared because I know that there are so many of you that graduate

0:30.9

this month and have no idea what you want to do. I'm stuck. I mean I'm right.

0:36.8

Because because I just finished on me. I just do this. I just invite you to

0:41.4

know why. And that's okay. Most people don't. You should not be stressed about

0:46.5

that. I'm actually not scared about that. The five seconds out. I know. The end.

0:51.8

I feel like I did so well in school. I was like, how do I translate that? You

0:56.6

don't. But you don't think you can't not. No, I just don't know how. Right. You've got to get out of that

1:03.2

rhythm. Yeah. You got to get into real life for them. Yeah. But you're a kid. You're a kid.

1:07.8

Don't beat yourself up if it's not coming easy yet. You have to decompose from

1:14.8

that old environment. Everybody's judging themselves way too early. What I would do

1:19.2

is gather as many experiences as possible. You know, you're not lost in life.

1:24.2

You're just early in the process. You know what I mean? You're lost by other

1:28.2

people's standards, not by your actual. If you actually took it practically, you

1:32.1

haven't even started. Too many people view post-university as like, oh, this is now

1:39.4

real and I'm lost. They don't put it in the context of being alive for 100

1:44.6

years and realizing they're only 20% of the way done. I'm scared that you don't

1:48.6

realize that you're entering the greatest five-year window of your life. If you

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