# ADAM BRAUN, MissionU, HOW TO DELEGATE & I PAY FOR A FIELD TRIP TO VAYNERMEDIA | #AskGaryVee 249

## Метаданные

- **Канал:** Gary Vaynerchuk
- **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZfoc7tw1u0
- **Дата:** 20.04.2017
- **Длительность:** 48:16
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- **Источник:** https://ekstraktznaniy.ru/video/18867

## Описание

MY MAN ADAM BRAUN DROPS BY AND WE TALK MISSIONU, THE FUTURE OF COLLEGE EDUCATION, AND I GIVE A SPECIAL MESSAGE TO AN INNER CITY HIGH SCHOOL CLASS IN PHILADELPHIA 

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QOTD: I want to hear what your hope is for your children's higher education?

12:30 - How would you guys utilize social media platforms for creating educational experiences?
17:29 - How are you going to be able to shift MissionU in the future to maybe cover other majors that are available and would it work with Corporate America?
23:14 - How do you go about learning how to delegate? 
36:35 - What i would love to show to my students is you giving them some advice as to what to do aft

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### How would you guys utilize social media platforms for creating educational experiences? [12:30]

Nick it's Gary ve you're on the Ask Gary ve Show with Adam braa how are you I'm doing fantastic how are you guys super well what's your question um so my question the one I posted was so in terms of you know utilizing kind of a combo of the two things I feel like you two are both really well known for um taking attention you know using social media you know the kind of the sling term for just you know where we all live nowadays how would you guys utilize that what are your thoughts on utilizing that for creating educational experiences you know basically using those platforms to teach people if that makes any sense creating like learning environments so is the question like what how would we think about creating curriculum on top of social in a way in a way of like whatever KH Academy or all these other platforms have done Collective things of that nature what's our opinion on layering that on top of social itself that's exactly what I'm saying do you guys have any thoughts on that I mean I can you know more specific question you know I think the thing that excites me most is the opportunity that every single individual can both be a teacher and a student uh historically you almost had to have some type of roote qualification right you had to kind of get a PhD in order to be the sage on the stage and I think you know what Gary has demonstrated probably better than anybody else in the world is that you can use social in building an audience through education I mean you know your content for some people's vois like they just love to watch your life but I think the main reason that people love to watch your life is they feel like they're learning something and then they're taking that and applying it to their own journey and I think that you know many people are going to benefit from that in the future um as more and more platforms not only just that enable the social layer but focus on specific Niche areas within education toerge here's what I would say to this I would say that the internet is the middleman right like what we're seeing what we're living through with Amazon and Ott and Netflix and Uber and on and on Airbnb the internet is the infrastructure and I think people are struggling to understand that when back to your point using termin knowledge I believe when the five to seven social networks or content hubs because you know people call YouTube a social network now even though it's not for SE um that's the layer on top of the internet that's current so I would say that your Intuition or what you might be thinking about as a startup or where is the opportunity of course like I mean it's the communication Hub of our society in essence blog posts video content these are seminars or books or passages so I think there's a lot of opportunity I would say the one thing that people have to keep in mind is when you're building on some on top of something else You're vulnerable to that something else so if you're building on top of Facebook or Instagram you have to figure out how to get as much value out of it that it gets out of you right I was with a media Mogul just now you he was like he was smart he's Young he was smart he realizes he has to get the value out of Facebook and Instagram that it gets out of him and so I would say if you configure out how to get the value out of it um then you're fine for example look at my content if I wanted to charge like I get 50 emails a day like Gary you need to charge $4. 99 for daily v a week or whatever I'll pay 10 bucks you know people say this all the time if I wanted to charge I wouldn't be as comfortable building on top of Facebook and Instagram because there's no infrastructure for that right I don't want to pay the huge toll booth to Apple that is you know 30 cents on the dollar either so I would go direct but I think what you need to do is figure out how to get value out of it and I would say to anybody who's starting out something early in the beginning you get much more value because you're building brand and awareness and attention and then if you're looking to monetize then you can start moving it off yeah I agree cool thanks bro okay hey thanks guys have a oh sorry all right go ahead in so you were finishing a thought when we did the call so data analytics is the place you decided to attack first yeah I mean we spoke to literally dozens and dozens of company hundreds of people they're on the front lines of hiring and this space of data analytics I mean a um article just came out somebody sent me I think it was maybe last week uh with interview with Eric Schmid at Google and the headline is this is the most important skill of 21st century and it's basically taking data being able to use that to tell a story to make a business decision and it lives in every function of a business and we have a huge shortage predicted uh in the years ahead and so that's where we're starting my entire career has been predicated on my intuition and then working backwards but what's far more scalable is to actually look at the data and make those and people who can analyze the data makes a lot of sense so is that the concept are you guys going to continue to create Majors that you think map to under uh under serviced by the market uh yeah I mean another one I'm interested in is like in the health space nursing for example I mean the amount of open jobs in nursing massive

### How are you going to be able to shift MissionU in the future to maybe cover other majors that are available and would it work with Corporate America? [17:29]

hey it's Gary VRI you're on the Ask Gary V Show with Adam Brawn how are you I'm doing good how are you all we're doing super well what's your name I'm Jana Adams hey Jana and uh my question for him um as someone who speaks on college campus around the country trying to help students get out of student Lo that his story about this new um I think it's Mission you caught my eye over the last week um and definitely I know that is just for Tech currently but how are you going to be able to shift it in the future to Maybe cover other um Majors that are available and would it work with corporate America yeah um it's awesome that you said nursing R great question literally just kind of diving into this I mean you know our goal is again to build a college alternative for the 21st century that means multiple Majors serving multiple different areas the most popular undergraduate major in the country right now is business but I'm sure many of us have met people who graduated the business degree and still have no clue about how to actually contribute to a company and so that's why our first focus is on data analytics and business intelligence but as I was just saying to Gary um you know a real area of personal interest for me is nursing uh we have literally millions of jobs that are about to come become available as we have an aging baby boomer population the current population of nurses are heavily retiring U there's a lot of different jobs that are going to emerge within just the health space in general that uh I don't think traditional education is going to prepare people for and then when it comes to actually the corporate America side this is already happening whether Mission U existed or not so price wer house Cooper ernston Young two of the biggest accounting firms in the country in the last 18 months have removed the bachelor degree requirement uh in order to get a job at their company obviously Google's done it in the tech space but you look at like Industries as old as publishing Penguin Books when a largest Publishers also removed the bachelor's degree so I think we're going to see a really large movement especially as millennials in the next 5 to8 years become the dominant hiring uh component of our Workforce because so many you know I'm a millennial I'm at the top end but so many of us recognize that whether somebody got a degree or not is actually not all that important it's much more about you know where they got at to school as a helpful sorting mechanism but it's only one data point how they present in the room you know what their referen are what their previous work experience to things like internship all of that I think is going to increasingly matter much more than their transcript or their major or their GPA cuz I can tell you know in my entire career I don't think I've ever looked at somebody's transcript at once yeah and that's what I try to tell the students um I my own company debt sucks University and like even Gary has truly like helped me talk to the students in a different way to make sure that they're ready and I've turned them on to so many people and I just want to turn on the high Community to you um because it's just it's um Interruption just like he was talking about with Uber and so forth and I just think H Ed needs to really get ready before Uber does it the same way that tax you I think you're exact I mean look they are so stunningly vulnerable because I think what Adam said is so right people are like oh Millennials are coming and it's this has already happened you have people in their early 30s that are achieving and becoming leaders of our world who look at the world completely differently and they're going to be the judge and the jury and so Samantha 32 years old who knows that her emotional intell I mean I am I didn't think Adam was going to be that great cuz he did go to Brown instead of the reverse like I actually prejudge people in reverse and that's going to become far more common and to your question the corporations you know when you look at if you're a 15-year-old right now and you think about it's three seven years from now when you understand first of all the corporations of seven years from now look a lot more like warie Parker and Casper whether those companies win or not after there's an economic downside I don't know that model is definitely going to win so and what I mean that model I mean newer businesses that are going to be worth four 10 15 100 billion dollar like they're coming and their DNA is so different and they're going to be the decision makers and so I think you're barking up the right tree I'm glad that it's caught your attention and you know what I'm most excited about I would tell you besides the fact that I genuinely love this human being I'm just excited about the legacy of being involved in it because I know there's going to be more things that look like it oh yeah I know you're going to build the biggest one at least is very important to me that you accomplish that but I think this is coming this is coming so and thank you for the work you do as well thank you so much it's something that I love I'm actually speaking on campus tonight and I'm going to go in there and show them the threats that are against them and how they want so if you can go to Mission youu just the letter you. com and there's a video on the homepage just play them that video I think it'll accomplish what you're seeking I'm tell them to become Jets fans yeah that's key that's important to us I tell them to become Gary V fans I'll take the Jets even more so anyway thank you take care very sweet all right let's keep it going so look I mean this is really out there huh like when you went out there and you've been doing a bunch of podcasts and getting some awareness and obviously and all that have you been overwhelmed was it have you been underwhelmed has it come from a different angle what's been the biggest surprise of the reaction yeah I think the biggest surprise for me is you know the last eight years focusing on pencils of Promise people were curious that was the reaction like I'd explain you know this organization we're building schools around the developing world people were like oh how do you train teachers or how do you pick your commun there was curiosity when I talk to people about the state of higher education in this country there is a visceral reaction and everybody knows that it's broken and everybody knows

### How do you go about learning how to delegate? [23:14]

somebody that's beeni and so people are psyched Kyle it's Gary Vayner you're on the Ask Gary V Show with Adam Brawn how are you dude holy [ __ ] I'm amazing how are you I'm doing amazing where you from uh Dallas Texas I love a man what's your question all right man my question is how do you go about learning how to delegate I've gotten to the point now with my business that I'm needing help and I end up just doing everything myself paying people uh basically just to watch me do the work that I want them to do what do you do um I'm in real estate and what do you want them to do like run open houses or cold call or what are they supposed to be doing that you're doing I mean really a little bit of everything that really the main thing that I do is advertising branding uh for myself um so for them it's more of just taking care of lead um locking down leads you know uh getting uh things scheduled on the calendar got it so you're the top of the funnel and you want them to see it through underneath you yes sir got it and who have you been hiring uh I mean honestly I think this might be my issue I've been going for people that I just know um which I'm not you know listen I'll be honest with you K Kyle it's honestly I'm a big fan of that believe it or not especially in your early days that's youro that's myo I feel like I hang out with Gary's crew and it's like all his buddies yeah I know this kid it's I I'm a big that's what I try and do I try and give the same opportunity you know that's been given to me to my boys you know here's the one thing though I didn't hire a single one of my college friends like I don't hire friends personally but you had like Michael White like you I get people involved but it's I think at this stage of my life I certainly can when I was in my college early to mid 20s and I was building something it was hard for me as a leader to demand the level of Excellence that I wanted without it kind of hurting the relationship so I just stayed away from now I would probably not have as big of an issue but let me tell you what the biggest thing you need to figure out is you whether it's your friends or people like you have to hire people that are obsessed with Logistics and are type A personalities MH you have to hire people that love the [ __ ] that you and I hate like the biggest me I feel you on that like you need to find somebody who just loves Excel and loves being in their calendar and freaks out when you're a minute late and like you need cross your tees and Dot your eyes I'm sitting with Adam and asking him about details of mission you right now with you because I don't do that you need to hire people that do that because you're just hiring homies or people that look the part of you but that's not what you need if you're the quarterback you need to hire offensive linemen they look different okay yeah I mean the other thing I would say is you know the start of my career I was probably very much the way that you were I was the person who needed to do everything myself because I believed that could do it better than anybody else on my team then I spent three years at Bane which is arguably the top kind of culture in the world for a corporate company and what I saw there was uh that they spent an insane amount of time training people below them to do the job that they're doing today so they can focus on the next higher issue and so my biggest piece of advice to you is you should look at how you're spending your time and it might feel really strange and really awkward but you should actually delegate let's say in the next two weeks 50% maybe all of your time all it's two weeks sure teaching the people that you are delegating to do all of your exact responsibilities literally to the point where they can do it as well if not better than you can and then it will free up your time because at the end of the day delegation is a matter of trust and right now you're not trusting these people and that's cuz you haven't invested in them or because they're losers do you go about how do you go about showing someone the vision you know for me it's easy to see because it's my vision showing some you don't you get rid of people that don't buy into your vision if these are your boys and they don't see your vision that should be real fast okay like they're either bought it's binary brother either they're bought in that you're going to be the biggest [ __ ] Real Estate Mogul in [ __ ] Texas America the world the universe or they don't and if they're just there to collect the p check and it's kind of easy because you don't make them work hard you've got a problem and you need to cut that cancer out okay I mean [ __ ] yeah I mean that's it man right like what do you mean like I don't try to convince anybody about my vision I'll give you my [ __ ] Vision one time and if you're not bought in [ __ ] you no yeah [ __ ] yeah I mean I appreciate that I really do yeah I mean let me tell you another thing well but that's not how that's how you look at it but that's not how you're acting on it okay you notice if you've been watching my content you notice how I say I never try to sell anybody like I'll try to sell you one time but if you're not in you're out like it's fine by the way I have hundreds of employees of Vayner media that are not fully bought in you need them it's fine but I don't dwell on it I'm not emotional about it like it doesn't mean anything to me I'm on my mission and so you need to just if if they're literally your homies or acquaintances they the reason I build companies with friends and family is cuz they are automatically bought in usually M if they're not man they're just taking advantage of you slash you need to check your ego at the door you're right it's about trust I love the fact that I know every single person here either is doing a job that I can't do but if they're doing my job right like so the pr team the new business team Andy job those are shitty jobs because those are things that I could do but I know if they're doing it as an 8. 3 to my 10 or a 6. 7 to my 10 I can't do everything MH and I'll tell you the Great greatest feeling in the world is when you have a team around you that takes all of those responsibilities off your plate and allows you to focus on the thing that you can do exceptionally well that they can but right now you're trying to do too many things I want the team man it's like I've been doing everything on my own for like five six years then you're not surrounded by the right people I wanted and that's I mean that's what I've been thinking that's I mean when I was like ask question or let's do some basic math let's say there's four things you do and you think you do them better than anybody and let's award you full points right you're getting 40 points problem is there's 87 things that need to be done do this math if everybody else is doing a two or three but you're getting all 87 things done the Net score is greater people are crippled by Perfection or doing everything right I think the thing that I've always done really well is you just keep moving forward nothing's ever going to be perfect so it's one of two things either your homie suck [ __ ] or you suck [ __ ] and you like the ego boost that you're better at it than your average below average friends which means you'll never be that big you got to figure out which one it is and it's probably a little bit of both you know what I mean it always is a little bit of both I would agree for sure that's it man I would definitely agree so just increase my action and bring more people involved and just let it happen and figure out are you holding it back because it makes you feel good that you're a better sales per the amount of people I watch that build1 and2 million businesses cuz they get off on being the best that all these little things it happens every day and I'm always like okay that player is going to be an average player cuz they don't realize notice how I always talk about sucking [ __ ] at everything and I suck at this and this like you have to take pride in your shortcomings because then you start acknowledging them and then you know everybody's fronting that they're so awesome at everything I suck at almost everything yet I'm winning because I surround myself with people that know what they're doing in that world I can't edit videos like these characters mhm well I think that's the problem I have is that I see what I personally feel like I see the potential and the people that I bring on and I just can't get them to actually see it or at least tap into it on themselves yeah but if you see it and they're not bringing it to fruition in a very short period of time then those aren't the right people to help you build your business yeah you might also suck at motivating people bro okay like that's the real part of the like we have to understand these variables this is for everybody right I have no idea like it could literally be that they're milking you and they don't want to do anything and you're the homie that's kind of dragging everybody up that could be the case but I would also say maybe your management style and leadership style is making them go in reverse because maybe when you're when you should be using honey you're using vinegar and vinegar you're using honey it could be an indication on you okay and I don't know right I definitely know that I know that I suck at like I want to work with people I don't want people to work for me okay and that's a big thing for me personally and I think that at the same time I I'm to a fault with that because I don't want to be someone's boss I want to you know I just want to be does that make sense hell yeah it does hell it big time yeah I mean but I think they almost want a boss without knowing it dude everybody wants a boss if they go work somewhere yeah if you go work somewhere you're looking for a leader yeah I would say you need to step into that role and not try and be every person's friend and in fact there's also a big difference between a boss and a leader people are looking for a leader that's what they need you to be not a boss they need that's what I want to be how old are you I trly do I'm 22 good man you're a baby you're like you're a real [ __ ] baby right so like you got plenty of time to mold into this the fact that you're aware about watching this the fact that we're talking about this and you got time man I wouldn't [ __ ] yourself you were literally a child like you're 22 years old you got a lot of time listen at 22 I was not able to give critical feedback to my employees I wasn't good at it hearing that you're 22 changes the equation for me I mean I was 24 when I started pencil of promise it was my friends that were around me helping me throw these parties raise money and I could never order them around and you know I just didn't have the call it self-confidence as a you know leader of the organization I was always grateful all those things but at the end of the day it becomes very clear where the talent Rises and the cream really does rise to the top once you set a Clear Vision and then you start holding people accountable to Real Results so and you might have Lu I mean Adam had snobby friends like Brad H you know who could never take feedback so like you got to be careful with who you surround yourself with Brad I love you Kyle good luck be patient man here's what I would say let me give you one real tangible thing go have your first ever negative conversation with one of your employees just go taste it just go in there sit down Rick and be like Rick listen to me we've been friends since little league in fourth grade I love you you're the best you saved me from drowning in the river in ninth grade but here's the problem you suck so either you get your [ __ ] together or I have to fire you all right man hey I really appreciate you taking the call and advice don't jump off real quick you've got to promise to me that you're going to go have that conversation no I literally am I got to meet with a couple of my guys tonight so we're going to have to talk like re now when you said a couple of your guys if you're going to have that conversation make sure you have it one-on-one don't start lumping people in okay yeah because when you start lumping somebody's feelings get hurt it can get confusing let me tell you what losing players do if they're both sitting there I'd be like oh it's Adam who's screwed up he's just bringing me here to make it more palpable like you've got to do that one-on-one okay and you re listen to me you really have to go there mhm and start the conversation by Framing it up as I want to talk to you to get feedback and right then and there that's going to set the tone this isn't like a friendly normal conversation this is about getting that feedback having that tough conversation that you need and and just say listen I love you but yeah make this a butt conversation be like listen we're homies for life but you know you're lazy as [ __ ] no yeah I honestly everything you're telling me I feel like I already know I just haven't had to I know you know you don't have the balls to do it yet because most people don't and the reason I'm not letting you get off the phone is usually people need this kind of pep talk and I'm worried that I haven't put enough energy into you and that in the next 4 hours it's going to go away and then you're going to [ __ ] the bed so the reason I'm keeping you on the phone is I'm trying to give you the audacity to actually get this done because the first time you do it remember how scared you were to kiss a girl oh yeah remember how after you did it you weren't scared anymore yeah immediately you need to go have this negative reason you need to have go you need to go have this negative conversation it will change the course of your career I appreciate it I really do I mean I'm uh I'm opening up the Austin Market in about a week so I got to do this now and that's why I gave you I asked for the question and I've literally been sitting in Walmart just hoping that you guys would call me so Andy K saved your day in Walmart I love it love you bro Hi man see good appreciate it dude you got it take care it's cool Colin's fun right great yeah that's great remember listening to Mike we're like Mike and the Mad Dog oh yeah who are you you're more Mike I'm my Mad Dog yeah definitely all right fine um I think in amongst the two of us you definitely my um so that was interesting that was great I mean I the whole thing shifted for me when he said he was yeah and I could the voice I was like he yo

### What i would love to show to my students is you giving them some advice as to what to do after high school, if they don't want to go to college. [36:35]

it's Gary ve you're an Ask Gary ve Show with Adam Brawn what's your name you gotta be kidding me man not joking yo my name is CJ Reynolds I teach in West Philadelphia born and raised I you know on playground where I love it CJ how are you U I'm doing great man I'm sitting here watching your feed and I'm waiting the next question to be done so I could know if they were going to call well guess what you won kids are coming in the room to ask me for something real quick give me 10 seconds I'll be right with you um so here's my question uh I have students um that I teach in my Philadelphia I teach at all boy school and we're talking like Inner City Philadelphia and um you know I'm going to show them this feed and what I would love to show them is you giving them some advice as to what to do after high school if they don't want to go to college um because coming from me it's like yeah you're a teacher you're teacher over and over again I'm a teacher I teach nth grade literature I actually um I hit you up on Twitter a while ago when you were looking for a oh schools to come I actually yep do we have one right going back Alex go ahead okay so what could you speak to my students to kind of give them something to you know that they're not just heing me but they're they know who you are we watch your videos in class um they keep asking me like they're like uh you know like so like I I'm always giving them your information and telling them what I think you would say but I would love for you to speak to them directly if you could I could now like give me help me a little bit here because the truth is let's start from the top and I'm talking to the class now and you can clip this we'll even send you a clip got it Tyler we'll send you this clip first of all how many are there I have uh this graduating class is about 100 students right so for the hundred of you you're all different like if you don't want to go to college if you want to figure out what to do all of you are different some of you can sing some of you are are math based and you could be analytical there's a million things you could do obviously it's crazy that we got you on this show because of mission you so you got to go check that out there's a million things that I could tell you here's the one thing I can promise you need to work your [ __ ] face off and nobody gives a [ __ ] about where you grew up like this no like nobody's gonna feel sorry for you circumstantially or feel positive for you like whether you're born in the ghetto or you're born to a trust fund at the end of the day once you hit the real world nobody cares cuz then the clock's on if you're a trust fund baby people are judging you like you suck it's all cuz you're daddy if you're [ __ ] from the ghetto it's like you have no shot you don't look the part either way nobody cares the end the only thing that you should be figuring out is what are you good at and so you should try a lot of [ __ ] right and then you need to work every minute like if you're not going to go to college you're going to have to work right like if you're not going to use the brand of the degree and before Mission you means something to the whole world you're going to have to work and prove it and nobody's going to feel bad that you're working two jobs or that you're not you don't have no time to hang out anymore see you know this look these kids they're young when you're young I was we're all we've all been young the biggest thing that's going on is it's all the same advice over and over you have to work your brains out and you have to realize nobody cares about you and once you go into that place and you're super solo then you have a prayer but for any second that you think somebody's going to save you Bernie Sanders Donald Trump the government your sister the people that feel bad for you like nobody gives a [ __ ] do they understand that Siege I'm asking you you know so I hear you and so that unfortunately I think that only comes that understanding comes with doing right with like it's the Mike Tyson thing right as soon as you get actually punched in them out then you're like oh exactly and so a lot of my guys have been literally punched in the M many times in their lives and so it's about like helping them to see that there's kind of more to themselves or that there's they have more to offer than um you know they kind of been beaten down already and some guys seem a little bit uh you know like they have they lack is what it's just do they have the chip on their shoulder that somebody owes them something because it was [ __ ] up or do they have no self-esteem because everybody told them they can't win both you know it's a both so when we're talking about boys so it's all boy school where you know 90% of my guys don't have a dad at home which lit it makes my job easier because you know you're a guy that shows up every day and tells kids that you love them and that you see them and that they're not invisible um but it's me doing that with my my crew at school over and over again and so for like the you know akill daners and the Elijah Goodwins and the you know Mark Slaughters like and I'm so I'm shouting them out because they're going to go oh [ __ ] Reynold you just said my name on the Internet so hey Rey ask you a question if I paid for the bus like I know schools are [ __ ] up so they can't take advantage but if I paid for the bus can you bring like eight or nine of them up here and hang with me for an hour I'll go I will be up there this afternoon if you pay for the bus that's what I'm gonna do so cool send an email to Gary at Vayner media I'm going to pay for the bus you're going to come up here we're going to film it because then I'll get into re deal I don't want to be the guy who's just shouting to 100 people without context let's take eight or nine of them do some [ __ ] contest Reynolds do whatever [ __ ] You' got to do to get pick eight or nine of them bring them up here we'll jam with them we'll film that and then you can use it because they look the part of the other 90 and the 100 next year and and I knew the answer to your qu to my question was both right here's the problem and this is for everybody this is not just inner city kids this is for everybody Johnny Texas you know Rick Oklahoma and Pam Peru the bottom line is it's one of the two opposite things either you have a chip on your shoulder and you think the world [ __ ] you and you're unlucky or you've actually been suppressed and told you can't right in a different way than that it's not the circumstance it's the verbiage you actually have parents they just suck right they just they're in pain so they don't want you to succeed misery loves company it all ends up in the same place Reynolds which is it doesn't matter and that's what I want these kids to understand it just doesn't matter because once you get on the field it's just the field and so the quicker you can make that mind shift and then the other thing that none of us realize is how much time you have yeah like if I knew as an 18-year-old I did and that's why I won but I didn't even know to the extreme the biggest thing I'm going to do with those eight or nine kids Reynolds is I'm going to make them understand they just have to put their head down for 15 years and think about when you're 18 what 15 years sounds like right it's forever well it's nothing to us as we get older when you're 18 dude I'll be honest with you 15 years feels even a little bit long to me right now and I'm 41 when you're 18 15 years of your whole [ __ ] life when you tell them each [ __ ] for 15 years you'll be 33 a child and you can then go win that [ __ ] with you if I can break through and get them to understand yeah I the only other thing this that the only thing I I'll add in and I think one I mean it's amazing that Gary's gonna bring these kids up here and I will absolutely be watching that session that you have with them but the thing that I've seen is and this is the one thing that as a teacher I think you can most instilling kids is that you become your expectations and people find their expectations sometimes externally sometimes internally sometimes it's a parent or a coach or a teacher or Mentor that helps you understand your self- expectation other people are just intrinsically born with this belief that they're going to go do something great but you become your expectations and so every one of those kids regardless of their situation today if they can redefine the expectation for their future then that creates the underlying motivation to bust ass for the next 15 years but if they don't have the expectation of the outcome in the future and they don't hold themselves accountable to it then they won't get to that place if they understood the man that's holding them down is in their [ __ ] Dome everything would change true yes I love it so Hey listen I can I shout one thing out real quick yep I have so my if people want to check out my gu I have a YouTube site called with the which is um I post teacher videos like how people that teach in the inner city should stop going there for two years to like do their good deed and then move on but they should like go there and stay and this is how you can stay and like how you can just keep crushing it every year after year um no matter what the kids bring in with them that you're like helping them and loving them and what's the name of the video what's the name again it's called re it's called real rap with the Reynolds real with the Reynolds good we'll put Reynolds I can't wait to [ __ ] see you better get your ass here soon The Season's almost over best man I'll see you soon I'll see you next week let's figure it out see you I think that's a good no I think that's good that was [ __ ] awesome that great he hit on all the right things right the cliche like I'm a good person two years kind of thing uh Adam how do you want to close this out here and then you get to ask a question of the day I get ask question to you or to no to the world AKA a couple thousand people yeah um I want to hear um what your hope is for your children's higher education I'll answer mine real quick and then you guys can all answer yours and I know a lot of you are young and far away from children many others have children and I'd love to see the answers mine is very simple which is I just want my kids to be happy like I you know I first of all I'm unique because I made it without higher education so I have no expectations or needs I want them to do what they want to do AKA in Reverse too if Xander wants to be the greatest scholar of all time with no practical execution the thing that I would make fun of then I want him to be the greatest [ __ ] pontificator and theorist ever as long as that is what he wants to be about so from my standpoint that's what I want out of it I also recognize there's seven and four 11 14 years from today with things like what you're up to the way technology is work and the way the ecosystem is playing out this is why I'm so upset for all the parents I have on the upper east side of town school and all these things is they don't realize these all you know horse man and and avenues they don't realize the buzs saw that they're walking into they think their kids need to go to chess and they need to be six-year-olds that are prepping for SATs and I'm like what the [ __ ] world do you think little [ __ ] Johnny excuse me not Johnny little [ __ ] Hudson is going to be you know living in anyway that's what that's my answer I like um I love you brother I love you too man Adam Brawn you keep asking questions we'll keep answering them