This is literally THE BEST WEEK OF MY LIFE | DailyVee 572

what is going to go down at the National in Chicago this year I'm literally spending four days at the National Convention as a dealer I'm coming guns ablaze all of America we're I'm out of control for four days I called this man's wife and convinced her to let him come to this conference he wasn't covered he's like have a good time everyone I'm devastated I'm like giving your wife's number I'm gonna do crazy [ __ ] I'm not like Vera they've been I'm gonna like try to break the place you got your prospective been here since Tuesday night got in super late three-hour delay got in Wednesday holiday been here with my best friend Brandon Warneke man who runs a wine library sign up for wine text calm this is [ __ ] 1992 for us sure is 1992 action fans bunch of myself little new hazard out Tyler holding it out d rock you've even showed some business skills which is really amazing to me and I'm proud of you it is now what is it Saturday late afternoon it's a full day tomorrow devastated rammons leaving still gonna try to talk about a bit just having a best [ __ ] time best [ __ ] people trying to let them make cash and I'm considering becoming a full-time sports car dealer and shutting down vaynermedia first of all I'm just unbelievably humbled to be here I'm an

immigrant that was born in the Soviet Union I grew up in New Jersey very lemonade stands very much sports cards you know for a lot of us of a certain age here 87 tops was like a rite of passage it was like the crescendo moment it was like it just you know the sixth-grade baseball card club in Edison New Jersey changed the course of my life I got very into this world and basically I'm one of the great all-time terrible students because I spent ninety nine percent of my time between the ages of 10 and 16 reading Beckett and tough stuff and trying to buy cards I grew up from such humble beginnings and that I was never able to afford to come to this convention as a kid and would always read about it and dream about it so this is a substantially surreal moment for me to me happiness is about doing what you want to be doing too many people focus on the money the things that come along with it I think you have to focus on the process this is the [ __ ] best I missed shows so much I've ran the impregnate all do those at thirty cheater stays at eighty these this during this little thing is that twenty tomorrow I'm raising the prices by ten bucks each I'm being dead [ __ ] serious very simply we have to make happiness the North Star we have to because the framework of all of us over the last hundred years is success and even worse things my great hope is that happiness becomes a Nord start equal to financial success because it's so much better that's awesome but a real pleasure man thanks thank you so much for buying that real nice for your help and your here or how long the whole week come back for other times all right yeah here bro take a pack and if you pull up if you pull assigned auto of mine then you get it then you get a twenty-five thousand dollar business consultation say well one of the big things that I'm passionate about is are you doing something you enjoy to do like happiness and fulfillment has to become a much bigger part of the conversation than financial upside I'm always very hurt when people think that I'm pushing hustle and too much work and make it for the money you know my behavior doesn't map to that I would have been a venture capitalist then like I'm talking about actually liking what you do come on you're out of control thank you so much really stop by for - Owens will hang one more time real pleasure you know these are my very first vintage cars ever bought let's go smart move now you get the right story boss I'm curious I'm looking into the national her a bit last year I did what was really the tipping point awareness wise or just seeing the Hobby or your life this is the differentiator this is what brought me back for me it's the nature of flipping you know the macro trend of 14 15 16 year-olds buying and selling sneakers is something that I've watched for seven or eight years when I really analyze that market the kids are getting far more sophisticated this is not what I saw from kids seven eight years ago where they do stay in line for four hours flip a supreme and be pumped to make their 300 bucks this is running hard core tech to map things on the web this is having 44 kids in our high school stay in lines for them you know the 15 16 year olds that I interact with on the Instagram on DM they remind me of me who at 13 and 14 I already knew what the outcome was going to be with my professional career which I thought I was going to be successful and I can sense my own when I talked to them I some of these 13 14 year-olds feel to me like you know I'm trying to figure out how to invest in humans and take 20% of the upside of a 14 year old because I could see it and what I started noticing was frustration around supply they weren't able to get enough when they were right and then I started sensing cards momentum watching the market and basically there it was a series of a couple conversations where I just noticed and I intuitively have decided for myself that sports cards much like nerd culture and comic-con and Marvel movies much like sneakers that there's a bubbling of it being cooler and more scalable that it has this has been an inside hobby it's a lot of people I'm seeing right here that I know had been to the last 22 Nationals 15 Nationals and over the last three or four based on the homework I'd done the runes getting younger and compared to a decade ago and that's good we need to change the conversation period about the aspirations not to be a millionaire it's to be happy if I can replace the word millionaire with happy and I'm crazy I think I can pull it off literally I'm doing what I did when I was 16 years old with this guy my best friend Brandon Weir and my were literally doing a show young fun like imminent and in and uncomfortable like can I muster up the courage to quit everything I'm doing and only be a baseball card dealer like that much fun happiness it's the a it really is and I preach it and like I'll be honest with you I'm scared that I may do something weird like that at some point just garage sale and do baseball card shows happiness is progression happiness is the [ __ ] progression life's about alternatives like either you're happy and optimistic and moving forward for you're unhappy pessimistic and looking backwards you want to go home and go to sleep and duality you want to complain like you're more than welcome to me it's a very simple game this is binary what's the alternative there will be a garyvee carton here which for anybody you can imagine if you grow up think about this if you grew up loving and flipping sneakers and one day you had your own signature sneaker that's what these cards are for me this has literally been the best week of my life really yeah man this is just like I'm like literally sad that it's Saturday night like I don't do five days of anything d-roc will tell you I fly to give a speech in Hawaii and fly back I'm there for four minutes like I never stay anywhere ever I wish I could live here for the next year this is as good as it gets [ __ ] Wednesday who said 100 faces a cab yeah what a baseball great show yeah lot going on I love you