Why Work Ethic is The Most Important Variable to Your Success
The GaryVee Audio Experience
Gary Vaynerchuk
4.8 • 18.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Today’s episode is all about work ethic and how to crush every single day. So many people sit and dwell on circumstances they were born into/are born with. They're not pretty enough to be a model, not athletic enough to be an athlete, not smart enough to be a physicist, but the one thing they fail to realize is that the only thing they can control is the work they put in. Work ethic over everything.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Gary V. Audio Experience. |
| 0:05.0 | The thing that I'm super passionate about is a lot of you know is I think work ethic is the one thing that's super |
| 0:11.0 | controllable, right? Like a lot of us were born with what we were born with, right? Like you're only so |
| 0:18.0 | pretty, you're only so smart, you're only so fast, you're only like you're only what you are. |
| 0:23.0 | The one thing that I am fascinated by as you sit here, the way you were parented, where you were born, |
| 0:29.0 | what you got, the one thing that actually is in your control is the decisions of what you do with your hand. |
| 0:36.0 | It's like a great poker player, right? A great poker player doesn't need the best hand every time to win. |
| 0:41.0 | It's how she or he navigates with that hand. |
| 0:44.0 | We're not going to change who we are or where we were born or to whom we were born with. |
| 0:49.0 | But no matter where you are in the life cycle right now, we all have the opportunity to start looking at a little different. |
| 0:54.0 | And to me very frankly, I just think we spend an enormous amount of time on dumb shit when we have ambition to do so much more. |
| 1:02.0 | Now look, you do you. I'm not interested in pedaling being a workaholic. I'm really not. |
| 1:09.0 | You can do whatever you want. The happiest friend I know from growing up, I think it makes $50,000 a year. |
| 1:15.0 | He's on 17 fucking softball teams, he fucking takes every vacation day off and he's happiest shit. |
| 1:22.0 | And I love him and it makes me so damn happy. I have friends who were early employees at Facebook. |
| 1:27.0 | They have $100 million in a bank and they're miserable and it's shit. This is not a money conversation. |
| 1:32.0 | This is very simply your actions back up your mouth. |
| 1:40.0 | To me looking at the hashtag, looking at people talking about this, looking at their social media. |
| 1:46.0 | When I have the whole East Coast to West Coast long flight, I get into a lot of work. I get all my work done. |
| 1:52.0 | And then I start looking at all of your social media on the way here. |
| 1:55.0 | And I look at the hashtag and I see what you said about the earlier speaker and I do my thing. |
| 2:00.0 | The thing that fascinated me a lot about this conference is you got a lot of people peep-cocking in this organization. |
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