#AskGaryVee Episode 133: What Goal Should Teachers Set For Themselves This Year

- On this episode, we hit the streets of New York again, and India gets a fan. - No (laughs) (upbeat music) - [Gary] You ask questions and I answer them. This is the #AskGaryVee Show. Hey everybody, this is Gary Vay-ner-chuk, and this is Episode 133 of the #AskGaryVee Show. Just took Misha to her first baseball game here in New York City, kind of interrupted our regularly scheduled vacation. Obviously cruised into the city from the Bronx to take a meeting quickly tonight. Working tomorrow, doing another show tomorrow, so we're squeezing a little bit of #AskGaryVee in because all of you were crying so much, missing... - [India] The show. - Thank you India. You're a little rusty too, DRock. I was pointing, you didn't even move it. All right, I guess that's about it. We're here outside New York City downtown Broadway and Prince. Had a good #AskGaryVee the book call today. That's getting rolling, that's exciting. That's about it. Little bit down on the football season. I'm a little bit worried about what I've been seeing so far. That's my other two cents, and India, let's get into - [Both] The show. - Good job, India. Let's do it. - [Voiceover] Carlo asks, "What should a

goal be for teachers this year? " - What should a year? You know, I'm cynical and tough on the traditional education system in the US, so I would say a goal for a teacher this year would be to find one to three students that are clearly not predispositioned to be successful in the machine that is the education system, you know, the one that's been built 70, 80 years ago and is being crammed down our society's throats here as the world has fundamentally shifted, cool. So teachers, playing within the rules of the game that you play, like all of us, I do it, even though I'm a wild entrepreneur, we all do it, we all play in the confines and the rules that we set for ourselves. Try to find one to three of those kids, and instead of going through the cliche things of worrying about them hitting the marks within the game, or medication, or all the other stuff that is being pounded, maybe take a step back and open up your eyes. Especially if you're watching the show and you're seeing this advice, we're aligned, all right? If you're watching more than two of these episodes, you've gotten through the stuff that I'm throwing, and you're catching. And vice versa, and so we're aligned. Find the one to three kids that look like me, that look like so many of the other people that couldn't win in those dynamics but are so, so lucky in so many other ways to win in the actual world that we live in, and try to give them a boost. Try to be that teacher. I wish I could sit here beside Senor Kennedy, my Spanish teacher in high school. I wish I could sit here and rattle off two or three teachers that saw me for me, and I could give them daps right now and say, yeah, you were right, I was gonna be okay. Be that teacher for those one to three students so that they can, in seven, 12, 15, 22, 39 years from now, say, Mrs. Boston, she was the one that knew in fourth grade that I wasn't made for that, but that I would be special at my art or my singing or my pitching or my selling. Do that.

- [Voiceover] Joe Asks, do you think a company staffed by 50 of your clones would be as, less, or more successful than VaynerMedia? - I love this question. 50 of my clones. Now, there's an asterisk to this answer. I love being an A, a number one, and so I don't like listening to anybody else, so if you're my clone, and we can't listen to each other, we may conflict and may have major problems. And so the answer is, if it's a direct clone, we would crash and burn and not be anywhere close to successful as VaynerMedia because there'd be 50 people trying to be number ones. If I could have one ABCDE, all the way through Z, twice, Right, short, because 52 letters, 26 the alphabet, you know where I'm going. But if 50 of us could go from 1. 1 to 1. 50 and go through that ladder, we would dismantle the earth and dominate and be the greatest 50 per- Forget about 300, those warriors that won, we'd be 50 and we would dominate the universe. My intuition is, straight clones, we'd lose clones with a tweak, just an inch of a tweak that allowed us to have that 50 person rank and people listening to each other, we would dominate earth. Earth, motherf--ers! - [India] I know you were gonna say earth mother-f--ers. - You did? Have you gotten that s--? No way. - I did. - We are so - So in synch. - [Voiceover] Jimmy asks, "six years ago you made a video

"called Hey Mr. DJ about curating content. "Is this still a great opportunity in 2015? " - Wow, the truth is, I actually, now that you bring it up, I remember it. DRock. Hey Mr. DJ. Everybody is ready to party. I agree, and I think that DJ is about to get the whole internet partying. I'm just gonna guess, I have no idea what I looked, but ahh, much younger, much fatter. I think that curating content is an enormously important skill in a world of all the content. She's creating content right now. I think that in a world of all the creation of content that's going on, I think we need curators to help us. It's why I love Nuzzle so much, right? Just got in a cab, hit Nuzzle, 12 headlines that I want to know about. Tech Meme, Jason Herscher, by the way, hope you're feeling better, brother. His email list, Media Rep. Yes, curation is massively, massively important, and something that I think that we need in our society. - [Man on street] Gary! - Sup, man, how are you? Sup bro. Gettin' fans, love it. - So I was wondering, what do you feel

a high schooler who's really into tech who knows how to code, has made an app, should do in order to guarantee success as a tech entrepreneur after college? That's my question, thanks. - There's something about this kid's video that kind of hit me in the stomach. What I wanted to say to you is very simply that, by the way, before I get into it, it's a good moment to tell everybody to keep pumping out questions. I am very much watching and sending India stuff. I really want more and more videos, Instagram or Twitter, hashtag it, #AskGaryVee. There's something about this kid that really stuck with me. I'm gonna make a weird prediction. I fundamentally believe that this kid is gonna be massively successful and will email me this video in 12 years saying hey, cool. So what I really want to tell you is to hang around people that you want to be like. Is that another person saying hey? - That was my friend Ty. - Oh, hey Ty, sup Ty? India, you can't have more fans than me, I'll be very pissed. - He's known me since college. - All right, whatever Ty. Hang around as many people that you want to be like as possible. I have a funny feeling you have all the pieces, now it's about the connections. Connections are grossly underestimated. I would intern every summer between now and whenever your'e ready to do your own thing for people that you want to be like, organizations that you want to be like. Network. Networking was clearly the thing that, I watched the video, and I was like, network, kid. Just get out there, MeetUp. com, meet people, go on Twitter search, just say hey to people, join as many networks, get yourself out there into the real world to give daps, say hi to India 'cause you went to college with her, that kind of thing. Just get out there and say hello to people, meet as many people, and be around like-minded people. Be around like-minded people, be around winners, hustlers, ambitious entrepreneurs, spend summers in San Francisco, but there's tech scenes popping up everywhere, but it's about these five to six internships that you can sneak in between now and the beginning that I think will have disproportionate value for you. And don't take an internship at Facebook or Apple where you won't ever touch the genesis, the seed. Go to smaller places that are people like you want to be like so that you can taste it, so you can be close to it.

- [Voiceover] Corbin asks, "you talk "a lot about self awareness. "Do you think this can prevent people "from pushing past their comfort zone? " - I'm not sure what Corbin means. Do I think self awareness- - Like if you're too self-aware and you've found your strenghts, you know exactly what you're good at, will that stop you from pursuing other things? - I think this is a very valid point that a lot of people in my inner circle of intellectual friends who are watching what I'm up to and know that self-awareness is a theme of mine right now argue with me that is a counterpoint to my point, which I have tremendous respect for, but absolutely am not scared of, and disagree, and honestly believe that that's the norm, which is why the norm sits directly in the middle and doesn't have that upside. So, yes, do I think if you're hyper-self-aware and know that you're introverted or you just stay to certain things and you never explore other things, can there be some limitations? I do, but, to the point of true self-awareness, if you actually know what you're best at and what you're good at, and you spend time there, you will have the most upside. So yeah, you could say that you're not gonna be as well-rounded as a person, I would argue that by far the happiest and by far the most successful people are not the most well-rounded and have gone extremely deep, not extraordinarily wide. And that doesn't mean, look, I think I play all over the place, but I drill it in one spot, and so it's about drilling that a great question. DRock, keep you busy a little bit 'cause we don't have any shows right now, throw me up a little bit of a tremendous alert. It's a tremendous question. By the way, DRock, show this thing, it's really cool. I just like it, I just think people should see that cart. All right, get back here DRock. It's a tremendous question, one that a lot of people need to think about, but my answer is, I don't want to hedge here. My answer is, no, I'm not concerned about that, I'm really not. As a matter of fact, as I've gotten older I've become more educated, more rounded into more things because my success has given me permission to do that, and I think if you go deep in the beginning, that success will come, and then you can worry about some of that secondary things, in my opinion, which is rounding out pieces. If you're truly self-aware, you know what you're good at. It's not like you missed out on being the greatest singer of all time, so that's what I think. That's the scoop. Statement of the day. I remembered, I'm impressed with myself right there. I kind of dreamt a couple times that I said question of the day, and you guys all yelled at me. Statement of the day: give me a recap. I need your two-sentence recap of the show. You keep asking questions, I'll keep answering them. (upbeat music)