The Power of Gratitude

0:00There are over a billion people on earth that don't have access to clean water and you're complaining that your Instagram's not growing? Fuck you. This is the Gary Vee Audio Experience.

0:14You just gotta be thankful. People just don't have perspective. It's really easy to be energized when you actually understand the score. The problem is that people just don't have perspective. They don't understand that it's impossible to be a human being. Like it's impossible. Like that's the rarest shit in the world. And so they just people taking for granted. Do you know you're more likely to win the lottery 10 times than be alive? 400 trillion to one. That's how rare it is to be a human being. Everybody in this room is likely to get hit by lightning seven times more likely than being alive.

0:48That's crazy. Perspective. And once you see gratitude and opportunity, life is fun. You get to decide if you're gonna dwell and play prevent defense or if you're gonna see opportunity and be grateful and go on offense.

1:06I'm inspired by practicality and reality and the truth which is it is ridiculously impossible to become a human being, I am one, I have other good things going for me as a human being and I'm just grateful. You're dwelling and looking at what you don't have versus looking at what you have. There's nothing you'll ever accomplish that's more remarkable than that you have a chance to accomplish something. When you're so grateful for the at-bat, you're happy. But people dwell about dumb shit. What's something you think most people take for granted? Family time? Your health, you know, living in America.

1:47Access to clean water. Food on the table. A roof over your head? I'm grateful for everything I have. We lack gratitude. You understand that, right? I'm trying to get people to practice reframing their perspective. I practice gratitude every day. If I wake up in the morning and nobody I love passed away or came down with a terminal illness, then my day starts off great. If there was a list that ranked everyone on earth in terms of overall success and happiness from 1 to 7.7 billion, where do you think you'd rank? And this is really it for me. This is really it. If you actually asked me why I'm so damn happy all the time, I play this game all the time.

2:27When I'm anxious, when I'm upset about something silly, because I'm a human, where do I rank? When they live in London, Dubai, or Los Angeles, you're living amongst the wealthiest of the wealth and you're looking at a very narrow window of like, well, my neighbor has this, but you haven't taken it all the way up and said, look how grateful I should be for what I have. I love when people are like, easy for you now. No, from the get. I cried when I got two Star Wars figures instead of one when I was six because I couldn't believe my parents could afford to do that. Like, I'm grateful, I'm grateful.

3:06Gratitude, gratitude. Like, somebody's always got it worse. That's how I think about this. You have to stay grateful. You can't take things for granted. We have so much abundance in the world, so much opportunity, and too many people are crying about what they don't have instead of being so deeply grateful for what they have.

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