GaryVee
TRACK 4: THE POWER OF PULLING FROM BOTH SIDES
High low. High low. Left right. Opposite directions. Pull from them. Understand the balance of confidence and humility. Understand that art and science. Understand that these balances are playing out in our society. Find your balance. Enrich dreams. Hold those opposite feelings and try to make diamonds out of the friction. I spent so much time trying to reconcile what I am on the field and what I am off the field, why, why when I'm on business. You know, why am I, when I'm in business with my jersey on, why when I'm on stage, why when I'm debated, why when I'm interviewed, why when I'm in a pitch?
Why, why am I so fierce and hungry? At chip on my shoulder. And win, and not win at all costs, win with proper costs, with respect to the fucking game. But why off the field? Why one on one do I hate confrontation? Do I wanna bring more value to the other person. That I want happiness and positivity. What looks like the opposite isn't necessarily but I try to understand the differences. I try to understand. I try to figure out the balance of the feelings that bloom inside of me when I'm off and on the field.
And I bring so many of you are so different professionally than you are in your regular life. Any analogy that jumps to me is 100% the sports analogies that I understand the best. Which is, how many of you on the athletic field are a different version of who you are off the field and for me, and for me that's my truth of how I play in business. And how I peek on and struggle and fight to win that game fairly, the right way. And how off the field I will shake that competitor's hand then I wish them nothing but the best, I wanna destroy all my competitors in business but boy, in real life do I wish nothing but healthy, happiness and all good for them.
I wanna win in that context. Please, please start trying to understand the things that make you tick in your extreme differences that you pull from other directions because in there is the magic. In there is the happiness. For the rest of your life. Try to reconcile and create frameworks and conversations and debates with yourself to how you can pull in different directions. Have different aspects of your game. Be in different scenarios and reconcile them and make them a clean, complex understanding concoction.
Think of a great bottle of wine. It's a blend. You've gotta find the right balance of those five or six grapes and that's what I'm trying to do. And that's what I want for you. I don't know if I'm in the midst of making my project, I feel like I am right now. This is already the third video. And I feel like I'm gonna have to bust out another five or six. This is a moment for me. A moment of, not clarity, but I'm in tune to where I am and what's happening, my ambitions and my realities, the things I'm feeling.
So much good is about to happen. So much good is about to happen. And if you're looking at the bad you're missing the opportunities to be a part of it. Loud and aggressive, positivity is needed now more than ever. Ying and yang, right?
You can share your concerns and auditing the negative aspects of the macro human climate right now business-wise, politics, art, science, all of it, but please, be in reverse as well. And speak your positive truths and see all the incredibleness and understand how much opportunity there is. Find your balance between your left and right, your dark and light, your open and closed, your aggressive and passive. Find your balance and communicate it.