This is the Gary V. Audio Experience.

If you grew up in a framework with parents or customs that really desperately overvalued

outside affirmation, the opinions of your parents' parents or siblings because you come from,

let's call it what it is, an immigrant background where there's a huge commonality there.

Um, school, you were so deeply bought into school that the short-term affirmation of every 90 days with craves and report cards made you comfortable.

It's very hard to then go into, hey, hey, this is what you should learn from entrepreneur land.

Like, don't worry about it, it's all gonna be fine. That's very hard.

You've fully built yourself as an animal to completely value outside judgment that is not based on the market but based on another human being.

That's what I'd like people to learn, which is like, hey, like, what are we doing here?

You've won the 400 trillion to one lottery of being a human being. Do you really want to live with regret?

Like, do you not understand that the internet is the greatest optionality in the history of mankind that our grandparents and everybody behind them had nowhere close to the options you sit with today?

And really, like, what are you valuing that's making you conform into doing something that doesn't make you happy?

Your current overhead, so sell your home and rent. That sounds crazy.

You know, when I started talking about like, hey, in the pursuit of happiness, would you consider selling your home and renting?

I mean, I got destroyed in the comments sections and other play like that I'm some horrible person.

I'm like, how is living your life to pay the bills that you've created for yourself?

That's all humans. All that humans do are create their own jails and then live within it.

That's all we do. So, so knowing that that's very hard in a human way, the situation you have with your parents, all that stuff.

The professional one feels like I have a prayer of communicating that and letting people, and here's my point.

If you want to be a professional skier or if you want to start a blog or podcast around cooking, my big thing is

if you jump and start swimming, you know, this is riding a bike, kissing a boy or girl or, or, or, you know, swimming.

This is, it seems super scary until you do it and then you just laugh about why it felt so scary.

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