HOW PERSPECTIVE SWITCH IS GARY VEE’S GREATEST ADVICE

The most impressive part of this edition, somehow gratitude wasn't brought up once.

Call Time

The phone rings. Taylor picks up. It’s Gary Vee on the line. 

After some sports banter about the Jets and the Buffalo Bills being a horrible sports team (he said it not me) she gets into her question, which leads to this statement. 

“I feel like I watch all these other millennials hitting these huge milestones.”

Gary shuts this down, and fast. He asks for names of the people who are achieving those big things. 

Taylor replies with, “The Kardashians.” Then she replies with, “This guy in London.” 

Gary stopped her and said, “What the fuck does that have to do with you?” to which they both knew the answer was nothing. 

The Art Gallery

Welcome to The Sum Up Museum, one of the finest in all the few miles within our radius. 

We’re happy you could stop in. Follow me and let’s look at some of these beautiful paintings. 

“I’m an aspiring artist myself,” you tell Bertrum, the museum director.

“Oh, bravo. We love to hear it,” he said, cheery in reply. 

Here we have a piece from Kim Kardashian. She was quite young when she made this, about in her 20s or so. 

And ah, one of my favorites. Here is one from a boy from London. We never did find out who that boy was, but he’s another one who made a masterpiece quite young.

“Why do you look so upset? This is one of the best paintings in the museum, remember?”

I’m just thinking about how I haven’t made one of those yet. None of my paintings are hanging up in here.

Well, have you made any? 

“A few”, you reply.

“Well, Kim had a lot of help with her piece of art. Her family. Circumstances. Credit where credit is due, but she had her advantages. 

And the boy from London, well was working from a super young age, so even though it looks impressive, he had really been making this piece for about 5 years.

And truthfully, even if they had stumbled, tripped, drop a ton of paint, and made a masterpiece that we would hang in this museum, it wouldn’t matter. 

Why not?

Because that would not help your journey as an artist at all. You’re looking at others without even knowing the full story. But you’re also helping yourself in no way by looking at these other artists who did it at your age. 

Bertrum’s Lesson

Bertrum is a wise man, and he has an elegant name, which makes him even more wise. 

And Gary would agree with him. So much so, Gary said this, 

“Every second you spend thinking about what somebody else has, is taking away time that you could create something for yourself.” 

When we look at what other people have done, it becomes easy to project a life we know nothing about onto our own timeline. 

It becomes really disheartening when you know that 12 year old Fortnite streamer is making 10x what you make, I get it. Damn kids these days and their monetization from fun. 

But the ultimate question is as Gary said, what does that have to do with you (he put it a little more aggressive than that)?

We find that you’re so busy pondering how the hell some random person on the Internet made their masterpiece in the museum, that you’re losing the time you need to make your own masterpiece. 

Inspiration Over Envy

I want to leave you with something practical, since most people don’t actually spend their entire day comparing. 

Let’s say you just do it every once in a while. It just slips in here and there, and it hurts a bit. 

Why use that with a negative emotion? Why tie someone else succeeding as a bad thing. Not only is it good for them, but it can be good for you. 

Only if you switch that from envy to inspiration. X person got here at this age. That means I have no excuses. That means I can do it too. 

Remove the feeling of jealousy, and allow that person’s success to fuel you.

If you’re able to look at people crushing it, and that makes you want to crush it, think about how much of a machine you’ll become. 

That means you can choose to only look at people who are winning in life, and everytime you look at them you're inspired to do your own work.

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