Competitiveness Good or Bad? Important? [5/3/10]

everybody it's Gary vaynerchuk yeah um so I was going to a wedding this weekend in Jamaica uh congratulations to uh Gabby and Josh and a very special day today happy birthday Mom I love you everything I have is because of you you're absolutely the most important thing in my world along with everybody else that I love like Lizzie and Misha and Dad AJ my wonderful sister Lizzy I don't want to get in trouble here M anyway something happened that I thought I wanted to make a video about check this out yeah I did something and I didn't really think about it and then I thought about it and I said you know what I need to talk about this on video because I think everybody needs this kind of character in their business or in their lives not that I have plenty of things I suck at but this one thing I did and I think I get this from my dad so big shout out to Dad I thought was kind of interesting I was reading Wired Magazine and uh saw this advertisement for audible. com you know so you know just inwi page uh something anyway you know was talking about their new uh you know app and just uh about their site it's a great site the audio book has been doing phenomenal for Crush thank you so much and I noticed I kind of said oh there's a lot of books in the background I started looking and I was like oh okay cool Seth godden's Lynch pin awesome Jason Freed's uh rework is down here it got ripped I love Jason Fred big shout out to him and you know a lot of other big by Tom Peters I just did a talk with him the other day and what would Google do by Jeff Jarvis great guy and you know and just all these nice little books Branson I just did a talk with him and Oslo free by Chris Anderson um super fre economics and outliners by Gladwell kind of was looking and I was like wait a minute you know crushit not in this background and so I ripped it out and I folded it and I put it in my pocket and uh and then I put in my wallet I'm going to put it back there now oh look some money came out it's nice um I'm just going to keep it because that's how I'm wired I think it's fascinating and I don't do this all the time I mean I'm actually not as competitive as I used to be but I really think that one thing that is looked upon as a negative now in our society where you know little Leaguers are playing and there's no winners mod I don't know if you've heard about this and this whole movement and I respect that I don't want to suppress or hurt any feelings but you know we've kind of done okay in this Society at least from a competitive standpoint in certain things and I don't know I've got to be very blunt and honest I feel that if you don't have somebody in your organization or in your company that really is built and completely driven at some level by competition that you can't win that it's something that a lot of people need to consider and for me the fact that I ripped out that article and the fact that really drove me and listen I know my role I know my spot which is I'm nobody compared to most of the names there and so that's why I'm not in the ad and I get it but if you don't think that still drives me ripping out that article purely subconscious you know just kind of like ripped it out and said okay audible. com okay you know that's the kind of stuff that is absolutely the backbone of the success that I have and I think it's a trait that needs to be respected more and more importantly instilled in your company and your business it is okay to hate your competition in a completely competitive standpoint you can go afterwards and be friends and shareing the same soccer team and be on the same boards for charity but in the trenches when it's game time you need to want to crush completely Crush that's it that's all I got to say I also notice this I'm going to give it away I love all of you so much that leave comments so randomly you'll get a email from me somebody who leaves a comment on this video today with your thoughts I'd love to hear your thoughts on competition good bad uh I will give this Nokia to I don't know I think I got it last year it might be an outdated phone but you're still going to get it see you later happy birthday Mom I love you