Why Your Best Years Are Still in Front of You | The Lies We Tell Ourselves About Aging and Success
The GaryVee Audio Experience
Gary Vaynerchuk
4.8 • 18.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we’re breaking down why age is actually your greatest advantage, why experience beats youthful energy, and why you still have more time than you think. Too many people hit their 40s, 50s, or beyond and start believing the lie that their best years are behind them. Gary is here to crush that mindset.
You’ll hear from:
- Chip Conley – The successful entrepreneur who joined Airbnb at 52 and turned his experience into his biggest asset.
- Radio legend Elvis Duran on why 50 feels way younger than you ever expected.
- Gary’s hardest-hitting rants on time, patience, and why you’ve been thinking about aging all wrong.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | you have a lot more time than you think. |
| 0:03.3 | It is super appropriate for you to start that business |
| 0:07.2 | that you've always wanted right now. |
| 0:09.4 | It is actually quite practical. |
| 0:10.8 | You probably actually have a much deeper understanding |
| 0:13.5 | of what to do to be successful |
| 0:14.7 | than the average 25-year-old |
| 0:16.2 | that's rolling into my office |
| 0:17.2 | looking for dollars to start their business |
| 0:19.3 | because they've got an idea. |
| 0:21.5 | If I could just take the energy in my heart to deploy it into so many people's brains |
| 0:27.7 | to understand how much time, how much time is still left in your life to do your thing, |
| 0:35.0 | that would make me very happy. That would make me so happy because I do believe, as I'm spending a lot of time, |
| 0:41.3 | maybe I'm affected by my last 15, 20 hangouts with such age group individuals, |
| 0:46.5 | way too many people are starting to plot their exit, their unwind. |
| 0:51.1 | And I'm like, Jesus, you may have 50. |
| 0:53.5 | That's right, with modern medicine, you may have 50 more good years of executing. |
| 0:58.8 | 40 for sure. |
| 1:00.3 | I really think, you know, knock on wood, so many of you watching this have 40 full big |
| 1:05.1 | years. |
| 1:05.8 | Think back to when you were 10. |
| 1:07.1 | From that moment till right now, all that life you've got on the back end and people are trying |
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