Your Problems Don't Matter, Here's Why | Talk at the Precious Dreams Foundation

I don't care you have had the same pair of clothes your whole life be sure a lot of you go to that back you got a shot I choose optimism look I'm really excited to be here you know obviously with a smaller group I hope we can do a bunch of Q& A I'll try to give you a little context about what I want to talk about and then take it from there I think the thing that has allowed me to travel a lot and speak is that the only thing I ever think about when I talk is the audience you know how do you create context that matters for the people in the room I speak at events that have people that run fortune 500 companies that do 50 billion dollars a year and I speak to athletes and emerging hip-hop artists and kids and I run the gamut to be very frank with you I'm only interested in talking about something that's gonna bring value to the 2030 people in this room and so the things I'm gonna spit right now are the things that I think makes sense based on the very little I know about the people in the room I was born in the Soviet Union in Belarus when I came to America I was three years old I lived in a studio apartment in Queens with eight family members I didn't see my dad until I was 14 years old because he worked every minute and we didn't have lunch and we grinded I think the thing that excites me is you know I so appreciate the nice intro but me investing in Facebook and Twitter Newberg is not what's on the mind set in this room buts in the mindset of this room for me and I'll let you ask your own questions I'm not interested in judging or assuming but for me what I'm most excited about is that there's never been a time ever where there's been so much opportunity in the world and I don't think people realize it because I think people don't realize what's gone on with this internet thing you're most people in here a bunch of youngsters you've never known the world pre-internet when I was 18 I still never seen the in my life cuz I'm old and that's how I came up and so for me this internet thing is changing everything that's happening in our society everybody in this room including myself is grossly under estimating the Internet and for me the only passion I have is how quickly can you have it consistently because the second you realize what the [ __ ] that thing is and you understand what it means it eliminates everything that's ever happened before every single thing that's happened before becomes irrelevant when you have that opportunity because the reality is it's just game-changing I'll give you a quick story this uh this Saturday I had dinner with my parents which was awesome because I'm hustling so hard that you know I don't get to see them as much as I want and we had dinner and we're bouncing and the waitress ran after me and grabbed me it was like hey I just want to thank you and I was like sure she's like my fiancee didn't have a job fifteen months ago and then he saw a video you posted on YouTube in the last 15 months he made 1. 5 million dollars off of a thousand dollar investment in buying stuff in China and selling it on the Amazon and yeah that's real good and it really hit me so hard because I was thinking to myself my god between YouTube and instagramming these things free information right guy had a thousand dollars and he was it I mean if he made fifteen thousand dollars that would have seemed crazy if he made a hundred fifty thousand dollars that would have been all time would have changed his life to go from not having a job and having a thousand dollars to making 1. 5 million dollars in a year it's just batshit crazy and was not possible when I was growing up took decades to mask that kind of wealth the opportunity is ridiculous what's up everybody how you doing thanks for coming through so look for me it's real simple right I was kind of laughing if you do have Instagram and you went to my Instagram account and he looked at my post eight post or nine posts ago you'd see something interesting I'm sure for a lot of people in this room you're uh you're pounded the value of education school right got brought up like three or four times I was a DNF student I sucked at school like I got like I actually was so bad at school that I had my admin my system reach out to my high school and get a copy of my report card so I could put on Instagram the other day because people are confused what success looks like or how you get there it doesn't mean that you should look at me and not do school it means that you need to look at yourself and figure out who you are what are you good at what do you like how you're gonna get to the place that you want to get to and so for me I got four A's in high school in my entire career all in gym right look I got a D in yearbook you know and so to me there's just a thousand paths out there and so for me I'm curious about one by one for the thirty people in this room where is their mindset where are they at who are they listening to what are they judging their self-worth and their ambition based on what how are they counting the points because when you're a youngster you're looking at all sorts of different things you're being affected by voices and for me the only thing that worked even though I was getting D's and F's and all my friends parents told me I was a loser even all my teachers told me I wasn't gonna be anything even though I didn't have stuff even though I was you know I just was in my own head I knew exactly who I was but the thing that I was willing to do was work and the thing that my parents taught me was not to dwell not to cry about it I didn't have [ __ ] when I rolled up on my mom when I was nine when Nintendo was popping cuz I when it first broke I was at mom I need a Nintendo she's like good go get it and so I shoveled snow and I ripped people's flowers out of their yard and sold it back to them yeah which is my favorite one there's so many amazing people but ultimately the world doesn't care everybody grows up with [ __ ] right it's crazy for me to be in this room because 48 hours ago I had dinner with somebody was crying for four hours over dinner with me because he has ten million dollars in his trust fund and he thinks that he'll never be able to be his own man cuz everybody's gonna say that his grandfather put him on and his life is ruined cuz he has ten million dollars in the bank every person in here that just heard that said get the [ __ ] out of here right but guess what that's his [ __ ] thing that's in his head that's his circumstance and to be straight to the face with you I actually think that is scarier because there's nothing he can never do to get away from the fact that he was put on like that and everybody will judge him for life I genuinely believe this I don't know your circumstances and I'm gonna make but I'm telling you once you get this if you don't have it your emotion the game has started period give me $5 and a cell phone that has internet and I'm off to the races I'll go to a dollar store I'll buy five things I'll put them on eBay and I'll have $13 later and on and on and so I'm a place where I'm not here to rah-rah you or make myself feel good that I'm doing something nice every day I'm here because if I can get one of you to realize how ridiculous it is how your grandparents if they were in a situation it would have taken them decades but for you if you really put in the work to educate yourself educating is in school educating is a whole different game and so for me I'm here because I'm giving back to the one thing that got me to the place that I'm at and that's hustle work and everybody has that at bat if they want it and there's a million ways to do it and the fact that you can do it now at scale with this blows my face changes everything and if you don't have that you need to figure out how to get to that if you can get to that then the whole world is open to you need to really quantify how special this time is it's real and you've got two choices every day of your life you're either optimistic or you're pessimistic you're either seeing what's good or you're seeing what's bad my whole life even when I was like in a very different place I would always just say seven billion people out seven seven point seven billion people where do I rank for all the [ __ ] that I got for all the negativity where do I rank am I better than the person that's terminally ill that has a lot of money that's gonna die a month yeah am I better than somebody who's living in a cage in parts of the world that we don't even want to look at yeah and so to me this is a mindset game and it's real hard to penetrate your mindset right now because where you're at in the game it's early might as one ambition in here right now is to get one person in this room to realize how much offense and how early it is in your game I put out a lot of content and my favorite piece of content right now because I get so many emails from 20 and 30 year olds who are upset concerned worried and I always tell them like it's not even half time you're worried about losing or it's not going your way and your game hasn't even started if you want if this organization can really do some good they need to start sending you to retirement homes and you need to start spending time with people that are 80 90 100 years old you need context it's really hard for me to worry about anybody in this room when you're in the first inning quarter what happens in the first twenty years of your life means [ __ ] means nothing and to be very honest you don't want to hear this from me but I'm just gonna tell you cuz it's the [ __ ] truth I think your adversity is your [ __ ] gift straight up because what you don't realize is happening right now in the world is the Internet is making everything equal and the chip on the shoulder that's forming on you right now the fact that you're not entitled and you're not [ __ ] soft and you can appreciate [ __ ] that's gonna play out in your 20s 30s and 40s you don't see it now but you're gonna look at it the same way I did when I was 9 and my mom said go [ __ ] yourself by your own Nintendo I hated life now it's the best [ __ ] that ever happened to me when I was 13 and I had to work every weekend and make 2 bucks an hour bagging ice for 15 hours a day and all my friends were partying and hooking up and having fun and going to parties and [ __ ] I hated it now it's the best [ __ ] that ever happened to me so well everybody was looking down at me back then I was looking inside my own head and honestly every time anybody looked down at me I registered that [ __ ] and put it in the column and that [ __ ] became my fuel and so I think you're lucky and I know you don't but just remember in 20 or 30 years this talk because I think you might agree if you're willing to put in the work and bunch of you were just gonna dwell on it that's facts that's just real life just math a bunch of people gonna be like yo I got dealt a [ __ ] hand [ __ ] this life sucks the game sucks which is cool you do you actually I'll be really frank with you I don't give a [ __ ] I mean it what it's the truth I can't control that but I'm real curious about the people that are putting this energy in the right pocket in the right place building that ship because if this was 1986 with no internet you would have been at a tough spot we were taking a long long time but this internet thing doesn't care who you are that's real so biggest piece of advice I could give you the quickest way you could figure out how to sell [ __ ] that would really teach you a lot no matter who you are in this room if you can learn how to buy something or get something get it how you have to get it and learn how to sell it I would highly recommend it the quickest way you can figure out how to sell on Facebook marketplace in eBay and Amazon if you can learn that game if you've got aspirations if you want to win it's a land grab out there it's a lane grab out there you know there's a piece of content I've been making an insert of in YouTube for about a year and a half about going to try to set the mood I got you um about going to thrift stores and dollar stores and flipping if it's crazy so uh I'll tell you how it happened actually about a year and a half ago I was on Breakfast Club and I was going real well Charlotte mean was real nice and an envied kind of ran up I mean it was like you know this motivational [ __ ] is [ __ ] give us something tangible and so like I'm like you know the radio you're live you got a few minutes and like [ __ ] what I'm gonna say and I went back to what got me to where I am today just buying and selling stuff for me it was baseball cards because that's what people wanted back in the day for a lot of other people there's so much to do to me it's real interesting alright I was think about this the other day I was go to the airport I saw this huge line outside a sneaker shop and it was like 5:15 in the morning and I looked at everybody I was like yeah those are my people right because they're just like they're just hungry just willing to stand outside a sneaker store at 4:30 in the morning and cold cuz they know they're gonna flip those ez-zor Supremes and make a couple hundred bucks and I think that person has the advantage in the world going forward because what stopped everybody from winning before was there were people stopping people but now the Internet is the actual middle not some old rich person or anything over the house there's nobody else that gets the judge so if you and especially for you because once you get the phone once you play this stuff is native to you understand it and so I highly recommend you figure out how to use it to get yours because it's there it's really there and if it's selling cool because I think that's the easiest one to be honest with you start with $10 but if it's not selling that it's about making content and getting people to pay attention to you maybe you can sing maybe you can dance maybe you can dunk I don't know what you're - but sitting and worrying about it and sitting around and contemplating it isn't gonna get it done and the only people that are willing to listen to you to complain are other people that are losing and that's facts so I highly recommend you get your head and do a place where you just go on the offense straight offense because you have the options and so I think it's the greatest time to be alive the Internet is still new there's still so much to take you could absolutely grab it could be yours it's just about going into a different place in your mind and get real quiet thing that got me through is everything got quiet everything became Charlie Brown all those teachers all those parents all those people tell me I couldn't I wasn't where I was losing I just drowned them out and so that would be my recommendation drown out the noise and

get real focused on the opportunity because I have a lot of empathy that you may not see it right now but it doesn't mean it's not there and I see it every day I get emails and DMS every day the people that are building up from real small places it's just patience I believe you if anything it's patience how many people in this room right now over 30 raise your hands they don't know right when you were 14 you felt bold like a girl but like you don't get it how early it is I'm 42 years old I feel exactly the same way I did when I was 16 I got straight fire in my chest I'm hungry I want it feels the same I don't even know what to tell you and all the denied people that just raised your hand will tell you the same thing we're still thinking about the same dumb [ __ ] we did when we were 15 we're still ambitious we still want it was still growing it's the same thing and you can't see that now and neither could i when I wanted to the liquor store when I was 22 years old my cousin was thirty I thought he was old me now so I know what you think I get it I remember I've got a good enough memory but I'm not trying to rob you or give you hope off some [ __ ] I'm just trying to tell you the truth which is the internet's here it's a complete land grab there's an unlimited opportunity nobody cares where you started nobody's stopping you there's nobody that's got to take your resume there's no grades that matter none of it what matters is are you willing to hustle and how bad do you want it and are you willing to live a life where you're not letting other people judge you so then you're not pandering to it the biggest problem I see right now with a lot of people that a lot of twenty thirty year old guys follow me and every one of them it's just buying dumb [ __ ] like clothes and watches and sneakers all because they're trying to front and use it to get girls and all that that's fine I get it but they're letting other people dictate their life and that is the biggest thing that if you could get out of this talk if you can get nobody to dictate your life and I'm talking this organization your parents your friends nobody if you can get into that crazy place that I got to and the other people that I study and watch that broke through it's got to get real quiet and that's what I'm hoping for you so that's where I'm at my first question if you don't have social media and you only have access to Internet at school how do you use the internet to be resourceful and even get a job well first of all you have to decide if you want to get a job and second of all like if you're going into your computer lab right you know you could sign into your Instagram for that minute 15 minutes for hours you know here's what I would do for everybody here I would do everything possible I would do and I mean everything possible like and I just you have to understand I you know I lived the version of this life not to the extremity that you did but I to me the big game is very simp if I know one person that did it then there's a blueprint and so you know obviously it was coming here and I did a little searching one guy's like yo I was homeless I got $10 from handouts I caught your video cuz the other phone my service was cut off a month later so I lost you I didn't have it but I had that ten bucks I heard you I went and bought ten dollars worth of water at the bodega went outside sold it May 2010 building and he remembered that they the thrift store a thrift store flip he walked in he had 47 dollars he bought a pair of Jordans go in a thrift store for 19 he sold him for 57 on ebay he just kept going and going and going and going he didn't care what people were saying when he sold water outside he didn't care what people said when he was going into every thrift store he didn't give a [ __ ] he just kept going and going saved up enough to turn back on his service get a year's worth of service now he's back on the internet now he's really flipping stuff on the Instagram in Amazon and eBay and there he just kept on and he made thousands of dollars then he got in a part of like my big thing is what's your alternative like what are you gonna sin [ __ ] dwell so it's just there yeah you just have it so much better than people that looked like you and had your situation 30 40 years ago and didn't have the web period so I don't know it's just remarkable I don't know what to say that wasn't real when I was a kid I was buying all sorts of dumb [ __ ] to sell but I had to go to flea markets on the weekend fine eBay [ __ ] I don't know Jets now all right you guys have questions people got questions they're just worried about people's judgement on that question I want to answer one on one basic [ __ ] I'll answer anything thank you what's your name Kayla how are you good yep you know being a writer singer dancer and getting to that goal uses a sick look I think the Internet is the magic pill right so like if you again if you can get to the place where you have social you need to write sing and dance on Instagram use hashtags right you got the [ __ ] book you can read it you can go sell it for 4 bucks I don't give a [ __ ] what you do but you need to go out and you have to make content at scale because if you can sing you need exposure so well then that my question is this is not just you know like I think people get confused by making it if you want to write sing and dance you also have to figure out how that's balanced with how you're gonna live right so there's a big difference between being Beyonce and being somebody makes 50,000 a year or singing both are interesting that's your talent so first of all you gotta figure out how good you are because people are delirious out here people think they're going to the league people think they're gonna they're the next meek you know people think that they're [ __ ] the next Beyonce like people are delirious out here meanwhile some people are a so to me here's the funniest part there's no more debating take your phone point at your fit self and do it and then figure out if people like it and when people say they don't like it you got to make more of it you need two three four years of rejection before you give up years people post one post on Instagram of them freestyling people [ __ ] on them and they give up make content got it you want to write right if it's good it's gonna be fallout go ahead yes you were the lower spectrum of straight A's what [ __ ] did you go got yep yeah okay yep yep yep look nice me swooping in for an hour taking a couple selfies signing a book for you it's not gonna get it done right this is way beyond this moment so I'm not delirious about this here's what you and I were able to do we were able to hear a lot of things and block it out any people have questions but they're scared to ask because they're scared of the judgement of the questions of the person sitting next to them so I get it like I have plenty versions of that too like everybody's got it like I can do this but there's other things I wouldn't do because I'm scared of the judgment I'm not gonna dance in front of you because it's gonna be wack as [ __ ] I wanna be left like I get it right I get it but here's the punchline there is no alternative right so for me you know I'm not ideological I don't think I'm rollin in here and gonna inspire everybody to go get there like to me it's just putting facts in people's heads and moving on this is what it is like for example you're gonna get pushed education like crazy let me tell you what's going on with education unless you're a really good student and you think you're gonna go to a top university that's gonna give you a scholarship and you're gonna get a great job by the time you guys get to the college system it's not gonna be that great of a deal for you and if you are thinking about going to college and collecting debt at 11% you're gonna really be in bad shape until you're 40 that's facts that's not popular your mom and teachers don't want to tell you that I get it but that's [ __ ] facts College is broken in America now when you're 13 16 9 that sounds great like yeah [ __ ] school I get it but for some of you schools exactly right because you've got it like that you understand it you figured out the system you know how to get good grades and maybe you should go especially if people gonna pay for it and you don't get that right so what I'm just saying is that everybody's gonna have a different path everybody's gonna different paths you just need to figure out what you like and what you're good at and if you're lucky enough that what you like is what you're good at well then you [ __ ] won but if not you got to decide if you're gonna live a life where you're gonna do something that makes you happy and you like it and maybe you're not gonna have private jets and all that stuff or you're gonna live a life where you're just gonna make some money cuz you want to get that place out and that that's what you want this is about choices there is no perfect you already know that is your advantage yes sir yeah Boehner yes it was busy the pivot yes yes they want to see themselves what do you have in terms of advice one look and you know this like the vision at this age is far more fancy you know you get less fancy with your vision as you get older right when you're 12 you're gonna play in the league you're gonna be a famous this you're gonna be an influencer you're gonna be a famous vlogger you're gonna win Grammys like and then as you get there 18 and that you know how that works so for me you know if this was college kids the pivots super interesting cuz they've been hit with that cold water like oh [ __ ] I don't want to be a doctor I want to make money or whatever it was right that made you switch it up you know for me right now it's like I'm just you know it's funny what's running through my head right now I'm like man is there one kid in here that hears me right I'm like is there one [ __ ] kid that understands like stop crying like nobody's listening there's people that have compassion I got compassion for days the problem is I know there's four billion people that have it worse than you I don't know it's to say so like I got some compassion for you so you know like you know what I think we're all it's trying to achieve here because we have compassion we care I'm just trying to come at it not from a different angle I'm not trying to shock you with my cursing that's just what happens when I have people in front of me I'm just trying to get somebody to believe and not like hyped and then not care next Tuesday I'm just trying to make sure one thing resonates in somebody's you know how it works we all lived it right like just one piece of thing that could resonate and the only thing that ever resonates you know I yeah I'm very you know I'm just very affected by growing up in New Jersey and just like East Coast and like the 80s when the Beastie Boys about you know and I just when I think back to like culture right now what resonates is only one of two things complete and utter [ __ ] and straight [ __ ] truth right either like stuff that just everybody dreams of like oh [ __ ] yes 50 [ __ ] bottles of and private jets and [ __ ] flossin coast-to-coast you know or just the truth I'm not interested in selling that because it's not practical for 99. 99% I like talking in this environment but the truth and the truth is not what these kids get a lot they get ideology they get people that come up here and spit facts that make them feel good that they checked the box and spent an hour I'm not interested in that I'm interested in getting somebody to do something and the only way to do that is to suffocate the [ __ ] that's running through their head what's your name again Joe they don't love it I'm a fan of it if it gets you out of a situation that you're not interested in if we're being direct here like if that can get you to the next spot I'm interested I worked for my dad's liquor store when I was from 22 to 34 years old I filled my dad's liquor store to a 60 million dollar business and at 34 years old I left and had nothing it was my dad's business I would inherit it one day but I hope my dad lives forever and I'll be 90 right so like I did what I thought was right different circumstance but I was right I was an immigrant kid my parents took me from shitty Russia to America I wanted to pay them back I worked my face off gave up all my twenties right so we're easy to be humble with her when you're humble you know so you know when I hear you asking that question without knowing every one of your details I think you got to do what you have to do to get to the next step to give yourself more options got it so like if you're good at it and it works and they can get you to that next spot that gives you options at 30 held are you Mazal they're 15 if that can get you to a place of 27 that gives you options you'll be a kid at 27 at 15 you think 27 [ __ ] dead old I get it I remember but I'm telling you to your face it's young kid you're a young kid how many people here would love to be 27 get to that next spot I get it listen let me tell you one thing that you will not hear often the person that knows how to eat the most amount of [ __ ] usually eats caviar got it you need to eat [ __ ] get to the next spot not directly but you understand if it's good like that you're not gonna get you to the next spot that's perfect regardless of what it is whatever gets you to the next spot is exactly move forward it's good man I'm glad you if you have something like that brewing that excites me that's real easy for me to see how it can go for you just got to be patient that's where you got to stay disciplined and save that money and not buy all the stuff that's getting fed to you that you need it's hard to get the next spot when you spend seven hundred bucks to buy a supreme bag well I definitely want this man and I got I wanted to be a little late my man right here who I've been paying attention to the whole time what's your name nice to meet you I liked it I had a meeting today with a sports agent my brother and the AJ and I started a sports agency right so we now represent players in football and is a big shot and he's like he was like in one of those conferences with me and I was educating on what we're doing and he kind of took a step back he's like oh whoa this is way bigger than I thought like you guys are really gonna win this thing huh and I said yeah and I said to him and this is my favorite part when all the agents that think they're big shots with big players are [ __ ] on me and making fun of us why not when people were putting me down man I was collecting them in my head I just don't believe in anybody's opinion about me more than I believe and they pin their God about myself do you know what the most delicious flavor in the world is I told you so you understand I don't I don't admire anybody enough to take their point of view on me over my own listen let me tell you something about this country we love the rags to riches story a hell of a lot more than any other story you are set up for the good [ __ ] it's just are you gonna work hard enough and get into the right mental place to get there well what do you define as bad inspiration like what who do you think is a bad role model okay well like the way I look at anything is if I decided it's a bad role model it's not a role model you know I mean if you're saying that it's a bad role model because other people say it but you like it or think some of the parts of what they're doing or good that's what you have to dissect nobody's all good nobody's all bad to me it's just picking the pieces that you're interested in my guy how are you I consider your like a real yeah I feel worse for that man yeah like it's really hard to walk into this room look at their faces and have what's going through my head as these kids have such a big advantage they have no idea because they could never believe it and nobody out there would think it they I'd be judged as a bad guy to think every kid in here has it better than all the rich kids on the Upper West Side I just believe it because it's my truth it sucks man think about what you just said you know which it's like that was how Wyatt brought up that other kid like you're like JFK like that means that person lost from the get what you're basically saying is if you're born with money you've lost from day one so like and honestly I'm not so sold that you're not wrong like I do pee but we also are judging the game when you don't have anything you want stuff so you don't give a [ __ ] about merit or respect or skills you're just trying to get some stuff but once you get it how you get it becomes the game and so some of us are fortunate to be judging people on the skills not the stuff so for me once I you know once I made $100,000 a year Antonio then I was good but I thought I'd made it forever I've never felt the impact of money since that mark the same way cuz I don't need stuff like the reason I love being an entrepreneur is because nobody's my [ __ ] boss so like making 80,000 a year selling rubber bands on Amazon sounds great to me because nobody's yelling at me how many rubber like I just like the autonomy I like the control you know I'm a nice guy it's leverage when you're giving more than you're asking for you've got the leverage I like leverage hold on know what good advice would be like if you fail at something what keeps you and what do you think are some of the good things that might help some people well for me the reason I always do things that I think I might fail at is because I don't care what anybody thinks if I lose it's a very big deal guys the reason I take so many risks and always did and that's why I won was because if I lost I didn't care about what anybody thought about my L it's my [ __ ] L I'm telling you if you can

figure out how to get every voice out of your mind your whole life will change doesn't mean you know take advice from people but if you realize how to get quiet up here everything is different man what's scary about failure I love losing means I learned something figures figured out how not to do it again right they say well I say to is like the only way that you can learn this from your mistakes and I made you learn from winning too but let me tell you one thing not trying they're doing always loses you'll learn from winning I've learned a ton of [ __ ] lot from losing the only thing I've done much better than a lot of people is I'm always doing well you're sitting and debating should I or could i or how or what I'm working go ahead my man that's a great question my man so I got real lucky even though there wasn't a lot and I was coming up a certain way my mom did it for me nah now my grandma did not do it for my dad right she was an old Eastern European woman she did it different I'm gonna give you an extremely this is what I'm so glad that I let a little more questions go because you just asked a real important question something I really hope people can understand it's gonna be really real please pay attention to this one thing the only way I've seen now that I'm older that you can build confidence is if you surround yourself with people that are optimistic it's just super real it's super hard what I'm about to say to you everybody in this room needs to cut out as much of the noise and time with people that are negative and spend as much positive and I'm not talking about positive as like there's people in the toughest situations that are optimistic and positive and there's the people that have the most in the world that are pessimistic and negative this isn't where you're at or what you got this is are the people that you're sitting with at school on the bus the shelter is here right now are they saying how shitty everything is or they talk about how to get the [ __ ] out get rid of everybody who says it's shitty including family members I'm not kidding doesn't mean run away from home like you know but kinda there's only one way to build confidence my guy it's having people that are reinforcing good things to you it's brainwashing [ __ ] for real yes how are you what's your name Lee say how you doing good riding on ycteen and I spilled my heart I was just me yes like it's like they yeah get it it's like that's me yes they not accepting me [ __ ] them nobody honestly guys first of all they didn't decline you one random [ __ ] person that read your [ __ ] declined you [ __ ] them you're wrong listen in my face I'm telling you right to your face you're wrong you're valuing somebody else's opinion too much you're wrong I I'm just telling this is not a debate you're [ __ ] wrong do you understand you're letting one random person listen you do you understand how many people would have hired me none who's got Instagram in here cool go to it right now please do me a huge [ __ ] favor go to Instagram go to Gary Vee that's my account go ten eleven posts back you'll see my report card I was ranked 243rd out of 254 in my class 243 at a you know why because I knew it was [ __ ] for me it might not people [ __ ] for you this is about self awareness you have to know who the [ __ ] you are but for me it was [ __ ] cuz I didn't need it because I wasn't tricked I didn't give a [ __ ] with Saturn how many rings Saturn had listen to me you can't let something be valuable more that you could you're pandering to them let them come to you take that same essay and post that [ __ ] on Instagram with a photo and see what happens see what happens let the market decide not some [ __ ] middle management person that read your [ __ ] good of course it's true and when you're young in 13 and 15 and 9 you think you got to change your [ __ ] up because you don't know how it's played that's why I'm here to tell you exactly how it's played one [ __ ] person read your story my dear and [ __ ] that person who else has got a question not yet Nicole anybody else good what's that one more time I apologize yes you know that's a really tough question to answer obviously mindset came natural to me it was a circumstantial thing here's what I was say back to the same way this was not a debate my friends if you're thinking positively good things are gonna happen if you're thinking negatively bad I really it's just it's so weird right because when the cool says I'm a motivational that's like I don't want to be a mode of it I mean it I was 34 years old I was a businessman there was no motivational me there was no writing books there was no person now there's no 3. 2 million followers on Instagram I was practical I worked and I thought life was good even though I didn't have you know I felt life was good when I didn't have [ __ ] like I get worried that Aunt Oh thinks I think life is good cuz I have money in the bank [ __ ] that [ __ ] like my grandkids are gonna get like I'm not gonna spend it you're it's the same [ __ ] so like it's just to me well it just became obvious to me that it wasn't a good idea to listen to other people like what right like the thought that like you know how happy I am right now that I stayed here and we had that conversation it's one person like I think your tie-dyed hoodie is [ __ ] rad dude behind you might think it's [ __ ] you know it's just the way it is people's got opinions like it's just one person it's not that's not the coal company so I'm not sure you know what I would tell you is I just choose optimism just

because I know if I choose pessimism it's over if I choose that Donald Trump's gonna ruin America I'll be sad if I choose that it doesn't mean [ __ ] like I'd be the same way I felt about Barack Obama and Bush and every other president if you think the president is dictating your life you're a [ __ ] loser but no alternative like what nobody's gonna cry for me like you think about this situation for people in here right I can be empathetic I understand what you're gonna put down on you know how I got here why it doesn't just happen there's some other nasty [ __ ] that gets to this moment here's my problem the post at the doctor's office today this is just real person walks out crying terminally ill finished dead thirty days I feel worse for that person I don't care you have had the same pair of clothes your whole life least you're allowed to go to that back you got a shot I choose optimism please good yeah what's your name I didn't catch you last time saying cool good it's all the same themes man I just don't care what you got like I walk it like in here or when I speak to 7,000 people Madison Square Garden the other day like I just don't care fear comes from willing to let somebody else have the other upper hand on judgment I'm gonna give my best I came here and gave you my best I'm 30 rocks already bent out of shape because he knows I'm 30 minutes late for this important meeting but like I'm giving my best right here cuz this is more important to me but like if everybody leaves here and says that crazy white dude [ __ ] him right I don't care cuz I know I just left it on the line so I'm always gonna do me and if it works out good and if it doesn't good