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  • - Hey guys, one of the great things about DailyVee is that

  • DRock's around a whole lot.

  • Some things are obviously going to be for the show but sometimes

  • things come along that can stand alone.

  • What you're about to watch is something that I know will bring

  • value to so, so many of you.

  • It's a long clip but it's advice

  • that 65% of my audience really needs.

  • And I hope you enjoy it.

  • How old are you? - 32.

  • - Perfect.

  • You're at the point now where why don't you just take three

  • years and just do and see what that tastes like because you

  • know what fucking filling journals tastes like.

  • 'Cause I think one of the things that really works for

  • me is I'm not worried about the micro

  • but I think about the macro.

  • Oh, I don't know where the fuck this just came from but I just

  • walked in and saw it.

  • This helps me a lot.

  • Like, what the fuck am I doing with you right now?

  • It has a lot more to do with the fucking showing up to the

  • funeral than it has to do with fucking the bank account.

  • You know what's funny is if you actually live your life like the

  • funeral you end up making

  • stuff for the bank account by accident.

  • You end up meeting somebody who, you know?

  • - Yeah, yeah.

  • - It's so crazy when I think about how I invested in Twitter

  • and made all that money.

  • It was more about giving a shit about my funeral, doing the

  • right thing by a bunch of people which led to going to SXSW

  • which led to me meeting the Twitter guys which led to,

  • you know, it's just...

  • - Yeah, like just following your passion, follow your bliss.

  • - Yeah, it's just really got to think about how, I'll tell you

  • even in four seconds maybe some of the context Robert gave me,

  • maybe making some assumptions but when you're thoughtful I think

  • one of the things that people struggle with is actually being

  • very real with themselves.

  • - What do you mean?

  • - The difference between being, the difference between

  • understanding who you are versus who you wish you were.

  • I think that's something that I'm always very fascinated by

  • when I have a meeting like this.

  • What kind of read do you have on yourself and how,

  • I think I would struggle a lot if I didn't really genuinely

  • know who I was.

  • And then once you know you are you get more comfortable with

  • what you're up to.

  • So if I asked you right now and I think it ebbs and flows when

  • you're 28, when you're 32, when you're 57 if I asked you right

  • this second what do you want to happen and what would you say?

  • - [Man] What would happen with my creative projects or just life?

  • - Sure.

  • - All of it? All of it.

  • What do I want to happen?

  • Yeah, I want to have a life where I'm able to create with

  • fun, create with a team, I want to put out content that affects

  • people lives for the better in terms of helping them feel good

  • or better about themselves and their relationships and

  • cultivating relationships that are meaningful.

  • I want to travel with my man and have property, international

  • property and travel for fun and also for play and also little bit

  • of time for work.

  • Controlling in what you bring life with ease and also

  • impacting people for the better in the process.

  • - That's cool.

  • What are you hoping, as you're like rolling up to this office

  • what are you hoping for?

  • - [Man] You know what? - For real, by the way.

  • - [Man] Yeah, for real, for real there are you know shit that

  • I do not know.

  • I honestly just want to pick your brain about a couple of key

  • things and really ideally what

  • I was hoping and what I was expect

  • to get in a place where I know you I could--

  • - Hit me up.

  • Start the process of building a relationship.

  • - Right. - Okay.

  • - Yeah. - Let's start with this.

  • Listening to what you said the first thing I will tell you,

  • the best thing I think, I hope I think the first best thing

  • I can tell you is don't front.

  • The number one mistake that people that aspire to the

  • sentences that you just spit out of your mouth the number one

  • mistake they make is they try to over

  • sell themselves because

  • they think they need it to have people's attention.

  • - [Man] To try to oversell themselves?

  • - Correct, let me give an example.

  • Whether it's life coach, inspirational figure,

  • business coach whatever form it takes I think it's much

  • smarter for you to talk to the world about your process of

  • going through this then the advice you should

  • think you should be giving to them.

  • - [Man] Yeah. Okay, that makes sense.

  • - And that's where people are struggling.

  • - [Man] Yes. - I got real lucky.

  • I've never said this, DRock,

  • so pay real close fucking attention.

  • I'm not sure that if the internet was around in its

  • current form that I would be as successful because at 22 and 23

  • I knew I was special and I might have not been patient enough to

  • first build a business, first get experience.

  • I didn't start talking to the world until I was 35.

  • - [Man] Hmmm.

  • - And I love to say to you be patient, to you to be patient,

  • I'm not sure if I would have been.

  • I'd like to think I would have been but the freedom of putting,

  • like, I love to hear myself talk.

  • (laughter)

  • You know? - [Man] Okay.

  • - But you know, anybody that aspires, I think so you and so

  • do so many of you that's what it is.

  • And it's nice.

  • There's nothing wrong with that.

  • It sounds bad.

  • It's funny a lot of what I deal with now is being okay with not

  • being politically correct.

  • Work life balance, cursing,

  • whatever, meritocracy.

  • I don't know if you seen this,

  • did you see that I was on The Breakfast Club?

  • - [Man] Mhmmm.

  • - I don't know if you watched that interview or some of the

  • content that I've been building on I'm on a hot no excuses kick.

  • I have a lot of female entrepreneurs.

  • I have a lot of fans that are African-Americans.

  • I spent a lot of time in that community in my college years.

  • I just think I'm giving the best advice to women and minorities

  • in business today which is tough.

  • And it's crazy.

  • You have to understand in my body right now

  • it doesn't feel great.

  • It feels a lot better going somewhere else,

  • the problem is it's the truth.

  • The market just doesn't care.

  • - [Man] Yeah, it doesn't.

  • - And what's cool is when you actually say fuck it then you

  • start betting on your strengths.

  • Do you know I was a businessman in a world where going to smart

  • colleges was the only thing that mattered for businessmen?

  • You are only a good businessman

  • if you went to Harvard business school.

  • And then I reversed it.

  • I'm a D and F student.

  • I curse, I don't dress the part.

  • I do me and then you know what happened?

  • The world came to me.

  • So I would tell you that the best thing that you're gonna

  • walk out of here with is something that took me a long

  • time to really realize is if you want to pull this off and you

  • want people listening to you there's only one thing:

  • the truth.

  • The fucking and know and

  • everybody says that fucking clichĂ© term--

  • - [Man] Just be yourself and all that shit.

  • - It's unbelievable how much that's the reason I'm winning.

  • - [Man] Hmm. I--

  • - And I think it's easier when you have a level of success and

  • it's harder when you're climbing up the ladder.

  • But I think that there's a lot of people who if they talked

  • about the journey of the climb could win.

  • I think it's the best piece of advice I can give right now to a

  • bunch of 20 to 30-year-olds that feel that they should be talking

  • to the world and bringing value.

  • Talk about your journey of trying to find that voice and

  • synthesize it property versus go find because the problem is a

  • 30, 40, 50-year-old listening to your one minute rant video on

  • Instagram even if it's powerful there's a level of cynicism of