Why Chasing Money Is a DANGEROUS Game
The GaryVee Audio Experience
Gary Vaynerchuk
4.8 • 18.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Today’s episode is a classic segment from GaryVeeTV! Of course, you need money. It is a fundamental part of surviving and living a healthy life. The real question is about how much money do you need before you are doing it for the wrong reasons. There are many people who make enough money to live comfortably but still chase it so they can "show off" and stick it to other people in their lives. Chasing money at that point becomes a dangerous game where you start to sacrifice your happiness to try and make other people feel worse about themselves. It's not about how much you make but really about how much you spend that causes so many people to fall into the trap of chasing money to a point where it impacts their happiness.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Gary V. Audio Experience. |
| 0:05.0 | When you're thinking about what you want to do, how you want to spend your time, how much |
| 0:10.8 | of a percentage does money take up? |
| 0:13.6 | Because when I leave college, there's a party that really wants to be independent. |
| 0:17.8 | It ebbs and flows. |
| 0:19.8 | You know, I think, you know, money's never been a big one for me, mainly because I had |
| 0:26.8 | the ability to live humbly. |
| 0:30.8 | Gotcha. |
| 0:32.8 | I mean, dude, I'm not a fan of money. |
| 0:36.0 | I don't know what I should say. |
| 0:37.0 | Like, I'm good at making it, which I don't underestimate the gift that is money making, |
| 0:48.3 | but I'm not into it as much as people may think. |
| 0:54.2 | You know, they hear things like I want to buy the jets and they associate that with money. |
| 1:02.7 | My relationship with money is very strange. |
| 1:05.2 | I love the fact that I like the ability to recognize that my talent mixed with hard work |
| 1:15.4 | created some variable of that execution. |
| 1:19.0 | I don't know, man, I'm even struggling to get hyped on money right now to balance out |
| 1:26.7 | this combo because I'm being empathetic and compassionate and sympathetic to individuals |
| 1:32.2 | who aren't good at making it, need it, are struggling. |
| 1:35.9 | So I don't want to be glib, but it's not about how much you make. |
| 1:41.7 | It's about how much you spend. |
| 1:44.4 | If you get out of college and you live with your foremost ambitious to be happy friends |
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