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The GaryVee Audio Experience

Why I Actually Excelled In School (Even Though I Got Bad Grades) | Interview on Shortbus Talks

The GaryVee Audio Experience

Gary Vaynerchuk

Business, Marketing

4.818.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2018

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Fired up for this one from Toronto, Canada - literally jumping in the back of a bus to do a quick interview with Short Bus Talks to dive down into how empathy got me through school, not grades, and why positivity is the true key to winning.

Transcript

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In this episode from February 27th in Toronto, Canada, Gary sits down with short bus talks and discusses how you excelled in school by being an empathetic person even though he didn't have good grades.

0:10.0

This is the Gary V. Audio Experience.

0:14.0

Because we're gonna be legends!

0:17.0

From the game, there are chances!

0:20.0

But what do we hear?

0:22.0

Ain't just scary.

0:24.0

It's about to be an ancient day.

0:27.0

So here's the thing, right?

0:29.0

I know you said you struggled in school.

0:31.0

Yes. Is it just Laxia?

0:33.0

Probably though I've never been diagnosed.

0:35.0

Okay.

0:36.0

Or just not great at reading.

0:38.0

Okay.

0:39.0

And also unbelievably uninterested in the subject matter and an intuitive understanding that an awful lot of it wasn't going to factor in to the way my life was gonna play out.

0:55.0

You gotta understand, I was really selling stuff at a very young age.

1:01.0

I'm talking first grade.

1:03.0

Shit.

1:04.0

Like even looking at this brings back memories, like by the bag, at a discount, sell them for a quarter.

1:10.0

You know, like, you know, so I, long before entrepreneurship was cool.

1:17.0

You know, long before I had anybody to look up to, it was in me.

1:21.0

In the same way that like people like sang or wrote poem, like it was deeply in me.

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