L.O.V.E. Your Work | The Key to Beating Burnout and Staying Passionate

0:00This is the Gary Vee Audio Experience. If you're under 30 and you're lost, let me explain to you why you need to love what you do. A lot of people are confused about burnout and don't realize that if you love it, you can't burn out. Love's important. When I think about love from the framework of like you love what you do, you want to be successful, you're ambitious. you know I like breaking down the letters and I do think learning is huge I think the L in love learning is underrated I don't think people excuse me I'm about to sneeze keep this in don't edit it for all the people that come from the part of the world that I come from you know that I'm on to something because that sneeze means what I'm about to say is true I think the reason I tell so many people to be admins or interns for the CEO is get close to the sun you both have felt this I just think you learn so much you know I think the best piece of advice I could give somebody 22 to 28 is go work somewhere for somebody who's a juggernaut in what you want to be who gives a fuck how much you make fucking live shitty because those three four years you'll be set up especially if you're good so I think learning is huge I constantly am learning I'm obsessed with it it's why I'm always listening I'm always trying to learn what humans care about of the moment right Right?

1:28Oh, it's like I'm doubling down here, folks. Learning and observing is basically the same shit for me, which is like pay attention. Like why? Why? Why? Curiosity is such a fucking powerful framework. I'm literally watching this keynote with no sound that I'm about to give, but I'm watching how the audience is reacting and I'm literally observing, learning, and it's going to affect how I talk. Literally. In an hour. And so always watch. Be curious. If you're into selling stuff to the consumer, when you're on an airplane, watch how people board. What are they looking at? When you're at a restaurant, pay attention.

2:07I watch how people look at menus. Just observe, watch, learn, learn, observe. Those first two letters of love, you're setting yourself up in a huge way. Bringing value, the V, early on comes in a lot of shapes and sizes. For a lot of kids early on, it's just about outgrinding everybody else, right? Like what you have at 23 is energy. What you have is you're living humbly. What you have is you don't have a family normally at 23. Obviously some people start early, but you have tenacity, you have humility, you have grit. The unstoppable nature of 18 to 30 is nothing to lose, everything to gain. your expenses have not come up yet from a place of like providing for four kids and a spouse so you have the ability to provide value in your humility but you might have value in different ways you might work for a company that is marketing to 15 to 25 year olds and you should have a substantially better pulse on that given that you're in that demo and around that demo you might have grown up in a family that is incredibly into architecture and you work in a company that's doing architecture so you might be skilled shit at 22 I knew everything about wine or not really but fuck loads and so trying to find ways that you can provide value is very very important and I think grit and and really grind and hustle like those are big things but there might be different ways you could provide value like taking notes or cleaning out someone's inbox or supporting them in a different way so there's just a lot of ways and it could be very highbrow because you're just a genius like that or it could be very humble and someone around you needs that grunt work and just try to find value observe your situation and figure out what someone's not doing that the boss or the leader wants not what you want Biggest mistake that people do with value is they try to provide something that they want to provide that isn't valuable to the decision maker.

4:19Value is based on what they want, not what you want to give. And finally, E, boy, do we like to talk. We have fallen in love with the posture. People love to act successful. People like to talk about what they're gonna. fucking I'm gonna is like one of my least favorite two word combos to start a sentence how about instead of saying I'm gonna you shut the fuck up and do and then tell everyone I did you know what's a lot better than I'm gonna I did and so you know execution will be forever the vulnerability of so many of you execution is what almost everybody tries to avoid boy do they try to avoid it it's hard it's work people want the trophies they don't want the practice and so love that's how I break it down