Don't Change Who You Are Because of One Person

0:00This is the Gary Vee Audio Experience.

0:06How are you? I'm good. What's your name? Alicia. Alicia, how you doing? I'm good. Good. Okay, so me, I want to become an author. Okay. I want a New York Times bestseller just like you. Amazing. And I have been writing. It's my passion. And I had applied to this writing on YC team and I spilled my heart out. It was just me. Raw. Yes. they declined me. So it's like, it's like, they, it's like, that's me. So it's like, they're not accepting me. Fuck them. But it's like, should I? No, but honestly, guys, first of all, they didn't decline you. One random fucking person that read your shit declined you.

0:51Fuck them. But it's like, imagine if I changed some stuff up. If I changed me, they would've probably took me. You're wrong. you're wrong listen to my face I'm telling you right to your face you're wrong you're valuing somebody else's opinion too much

1:10you're wrong I'm just telling this is not this is not a debate you're fucking wrong do you understand? you're letting one random person do you understand how many people would have hired me? none who's got Instagram in here? Cool, go to it right now. Please do me a huge fucking favor. Go to Instagram, go to Gary VEE. That's my account. Go 10, 11 posts back. You'll see my report card. I was ranked 243rd out of 254 in my class. 243 out of 254 in my class. You know why? Because I knew it was bullshit. For me, it might not be bullshit for you. This is about self-awareness. You have to know who the fuck you are.

1:56But for me, it was bullshit because I didn't need it. Because I wasn't, I didn't give a fuck what Saturn, how many rings Saturn had. Listen to me. You can't let something be valuable more than, you're pandering to them. Let them come to you. Take that same essay and post that shit on Instagram with a photo and see what happens. See what happens. Let the market decide, not some bullshit middle management person that read your shit. Good. Of course it's true. And when you're young and 13 and 15 and 9, you think you got to change your shit up because you don't know how it's played. That's why I'm here to tell you exactly how it's played.

2:37One fucking person read your story, my dear. And fuck that person. Thank you.

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