Just Close Your Eyes Until You're 29.

2 Aug 2026 · 3 min · 2 chapters

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In short

Gary Vee urges young listeners to stop making excuses and to build patience by taking action and gathering experiences until age 29.

Key claims

excuses are self-sabotage; lack of patience slows you and harms others; happiness drives everything; you’re “early in the process,” not lost; do multiple experiments over the next two years to find what you like; patience provides “air cover” to take risks; time is your asset; success requires sacrifice, persistence, disproportionate work, and 50-year thinking.

Notable examples

call your grandmother, visit a great-grandfather’s burial spot, return to the old country, or go to a shelter to recalibrate perspective.

Guests

none mentioned; only sponsor reads (Accenture, Google Chrome).

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Embracing Youth and Patience

0:05 to 2:17

GaryVee discusses the importance of patience and embracing youth without pressure.

“Everybody wants to come up with excuses.”

Embracing Youth and Patience

2:51 to 3:09

GaryVee discusses the importance of patience and embracing youth without pressure.

“It can help you with practically anything on the web, like restoring a vintage motorcycle from a 50-page restoration block, or finally break down that long article you've had open for weeks.”
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0:00This is the Gary Vee Audio Experience. Just close your eyes until you're 29. Everybody wants to come up with excuses. I'm this. I wasn't born that way. I'm stuck. I'm a rat. I wasn't born here. This. You can't be lost in life when you're this young. I'm a female. I'm an immigrant. I'm a minority. I'm transgender. Excuses. Reality. The problem is nobody cares. Your lack of patience is killing you. It's slowing you down. and everybody else. Your need of things is killing you. I don't need a fucking watch. I don't need a fucking whip. You need to be happy. Because happiness drives everything. You're not lost in life, you're just early in the process.

0:41Everybody's trying to prove something so early. You fucking wrap your head around not giving a fuck about any advancement to your 29. Please, whatever it takes, call your grandmother, go to your great grandfather's burial spot, go back to the old country, go to a shelter, do something. Do something that recalibrates your perspective on what is actually going on here. Every person in here fucking won the lotto. You won. Way too many people have made decisions without ever trying. Everybody's judging themselves way too early. You can literally do four different things over the next two years, six months at a time to figure out everything that you think you might like you should try to do.

1:24Doing something around passion is very similar to love. You're blinded because you like it. It's not rational. It's not rational. The number one reason I push patience. Patience, man. Patience. Everybody's looking up to audit themselves where they are now. It's because patience will give you the air cover to take risks. Time is your asset. What I would do is gather as many experiences as possible. The one thing a 20-year-old has over me is 20 fucking years. Get the fuck out of the machine for a second and think about what you're doing here. You get optimism and patience, you're fucking off to the fucking races.

1:58The 99 % that achieve are willing to sacrifice, be persistent, put in disproportionate work, and think in 50-year terms, not 50-day terms.

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From the publisher

In this episode of The GaryVee Audio Experience, I talk about why you should just close your eyes until you're 29. I share why nobody cares about your excuses, why your need of things is killing you, and how to recalibrate your perspective. I also discuss why time is your asset in your 20s, and why the 99% that achieves are willing to sacrifice and think in 50 year terms, not 50 day terms.


You'll learn about:

• Why Excuses Don't Matter

• Your Need of Things

• How to Recalibrate Your Perspective

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