Listen to this if You're Graduating in May
4/21/202634 min
In this episode of the GaryVee Audio Experience, I talk about the biggest opportunity you have right now: your youth. I encourage you to do the work and taste as many different things as possible before the baggage of life sets in. I also discuss why the "nice guys finish last" mentality should be eliminated and why self-awareness is the ultimate competitive advantage.
You’ll learn about:
- The 50-Month Window for Risk
- Why I Think College is a Racket for Entrepreneurs
- How to Fall in Love with Losing
- The Power of Tuning Out Parent and Peer Pressure
- Why Kindness is a Winning Business Strategy
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First 90 secondsGary Vaynerchuk· Host0:00
I would tell you this piece of advice. If you are 22 years old, the amount of people that settle for the first paying job versus living with 19 friends on the floor and eating 99 cent meals blows my mind, in lieu of trying to get your dream job versus what you settled for. Please, from 22 to 24, don't settle. You know, go for your dream job, pound for it, and if you can't get into VaynerMedia, [bell dings] then go for the second best or third best or fourth best on your list. Please start with the moon and go backwards. The amount of you that start at a hilltop and just settle there is an enormous mistake. This is the Gary Vee Audio Experience.
Speaker 10:40
[upbeat music] Natalie asks, "If you were a college graduate today and didn't have your family business, how would you handle the job market?"
Gary Vaynerchuk· Host0:49
Natalie, thank you so much. Big shout-out to everybody who was out in LA. That was a really phenomenal night for me as well. A lot of peoples came out. Appreciate it. Um, h- well, first of all, I wouldn't attack the job market because, uh, even at the age of 9 or 10, long before I even realized my parents had a liquor store, [laughs] kind of, uh, you know, um, as my dad managed that store and was buying into a business, I was already slinging, as you heard in episode 118, you know, blue curtains and alarm clocks and, and clearly you've heard the stories of lemonade and baseball cards. There is no attacking the job market for my DNA, uh, because I would try to start a business. Especially right now, I would completely