DRock's around a whole lot.

Some things are obviously going to be for the show but sometimes

things come along that can stand alone.

What you're about to watch is something that I know will bring

value to so, so many of you.

It's a long clip but it's advice

that 65% of my audience really needs.

And I hope you enjoy it.

How old are you? - 32.

- Perfect.

You're at the point now where why don't you just take three

years and just do and see what that tastes like because you

know what fucking filling journals tastes like.

'Cause I think one of the things that really works for

me is I'm not worried about the micro

but I think about the macro.

Oh, I don't know where the fuck this just came from but I just

walked in and saw it.

This helps me a lot.

Like, what the fuck am I doing with you right now?

It has a lot more to do with the fucking showing up to the

funeral than it has to do with fucking the bank account.

You know what's funny is if you actually live your life like the

funeral you end up making

stuff for the bank account by accident.

You end up meeting somebody who, you know?

- Yeah, yeah.

- It's so crazy when I think about how I invested in Twitter

and made all that money.

It was more about giving a shit about my funeral, doing the

right thing by a bunch of people which led to going to SXSW

which led to me meeting the Twitter guys which led to,

you know, it's just...

- Yeah, like just following your passion, follow your bliss.

- Yeah, it's just really got to think about how, I'll tell you

even in four seconds maybe some of the context Robert gave me,

maybe making some assumptions but when you're thoughtful I think

one of the things that people struggle with is actually being

very real with themselves.

- What do you mean?

- The difference between being, the difference between

understanding who you are versus who you wish you were.

I think that's something that I'm always very fascinated by

when I have a meeting like this.

What kind of read do you have on yourself and how,

I think I would struggle a lot if I didn't really genuinely

know who I was.

And then once you know you are you get more comfortable with

what you're up to.

So if I asked you right now and I think it ebbs and flows when

you're 28, when you're 32, when you're 57 if I asked you right

this second what do you want to happen and what would you say?

- [Man] What would happen with my creative projects or just life?

- Sure.

- All of it? All of it.

What do I want to happen?

Yeah, I want to have a life where I'm able to create with

fun, create with a team, I want to put out content that affects

people lives for the better in terms of helping them feel good

or better about themselves and their relationships and

cultivating relationships that are meaningful.

I want to travel with my man and have property, international

property and travel for fun and also for play and also little bit

of time for work.

Controlling in what you bring life with ease and also

impacting people for the better in the process.

- That's cool.

What are you hoping, as you're like rolling up to this office

what are you hoping for?

- [Man] You know what? - For real, by the way.

- [Man] Yeah, for real, for real there are you know shit that

I do not know.

I honestly just want to pick your brain about a couple of key

things and really ideally what

I was hoping and what I was expect

to get in a place where I know you I could--

- Hit me up.

Start the process of building a relationship.

- Right. - Okay.

- Yeah. - Let's start with this.

Listening to what you said the first thing I will tell you,

the best thing I think, I hope I think the first best thing

I can tell you is don't front.

The number one mistake that people that aspire to the

sentences that you just spit out of your mouth the number one

mistake they make is they try to over

sell themselves because

they think they need it to have people's attention.

- [Man] To try to oversell themselves?

- Correct, let me give an example.

Whether it's life coach, inspirational figure,

business coach whatever form it takes I think it's much

smarter for you to talk to the world about your process of

going through this then the advice you should

think you should be giving to them.

- [Man] Yeah. Okay, that makes sense.

- And that's where people are struggling.

- [Man] Yes. - I got real lucky.

I've never said this, DRock,

so pay real close fucking attention.

I'm not sure that if the internet was around in its

current form that I would be as successful because at 22 and 23

I knew I was special and I might have not been patient enough to

first build a business, first get experience.

I didn't start talking to the world until I was 35.

- [Man] Hmmm.

- And I love to say to you be patient, to you to be patient,

I'm not sure if I would have been.

I'd like to think I would have been but the freedom of putting,

like, I love to hear myself talk.

(laughter)

You know? - [Man] Okay.

- But you know, anybody that aspires, I think so you and so

do so many of you that's what it is.

And it's nice.

There's nothing wrong with that.

It sounds bad.

It's funny a lot of what I deal with now is being okay with not

being politically correct.

Work life balance, cursing,

whatever, meritocracy.

I don't know if you seen this,

did you see that I was on The Breakfast Club?

- [Man] Mhmmm.

- I don't know if you watched that interview or some of the

content that I've been building on I'm on a hot no excuses kick.

I have a lot of female entrepreneurs.

I have a lot of fans that are African-Americans.

I spent a lot of time in that community in my college years.

I just think I'm giving the best advice to women and minorities

in business today which is tough.

And it's crazy.

You have to understand in my body right now

it doesn't feel great.

It feels a lot better going somewhere else,

the problem is it's the truth.

The market just doesn't care.

- [Man] Yeah, it doesn't.

- And what's cool is when you actually say fuck it then you

start betting on your strengths.

Do you know I was a businessman in a world where going to smart

colleges was the only thing that mattered for businessmen?

You are only a good businessman

if you went to Harvard business school.

And then I reversed it.

I'm a D and F student.

I curse, I don't dress the part.

I do me and then you know what happened?

The world came to me.

So I would tell you that the best thing that you're gonna

walk out of here with is something that took me a long

time to really realize is if you want to pull this off and you

want people listening to you there's only one thing:

the truth.

The fucking and know and

everybody says that fucking cliché term--

- [Man] Just be yourself and all that shit.

- It's unbelievable how much that's the reason I'm winning.

- [Man] Hmm. I--

- And I think it's easier when you have a level of success and

it's harder when you're climbing up the ladder.

But I think that there's a lot of people who if they talked

about the journey of the climb could win.

I think it's the best piece of advice I can give right now to a

bunch of 20 to 30-year-olds that feel that they should be talking

to the world and bringing value.

Talk about your journey of trying to find that voice and

synthesize it property versus go find because the problem is a

30, 40, 50-year-old listening to your one minute rant video on

Instagram even if it's powerful there's a level of cynicism of

like but what do you know?

- [Man] Yeah.

- And I think that that's fair and look you could just be a

whiz kid about the world and that exists but I do think

there's a smarter way to context it.

It's like starting a sentence of "you should" versus you know

it's funny, right now I could say "you should" 'cause

I built so much. - [Man] Yeah.

- But if I was at 20 you need to be like "my intuition says"

and that changes everything.

Or "when I look at," or "when I met with Gary today the take

"away I got was," that's, got it?

- [Man] What's your perspective on cultivating relationships

with people who not only believe in your ideas but can actually

help fund or will point you to funds?

Right now all my friends are broke and

trying to create some shit.

I can't borrow from your negative bank account.

So how do you get in to a position where you are around

people who are influencers or who will also will donate or

whatever the case may be.

- The market will give you money.

The market will give you money whether it's Kickstarter,

I'll give you money.

You just have to give somebody

what you want you want it against.

The biggest problem right now

is finding money is not the problem.

Really, it's not.

I'll explain.

- [Man] That's definitely my problem right now.

- Let me explain, it's not.

It's how you're looking at the world.

- [Man] Okay.

- There's things like AngelList and Kickstarter.

Do you know how much harder

it was for your mother to get money?

- [Man] Oh yeah, yeah. I remember that shit.

- Do you know how hard somebody would slap you, do you know that

the 1973 version of you if he was sitting here would punch you

in your fuckin' mouth because money is the last thing you have

to worry about.

AngelList, Kickstarter the world can give it to you.

You start a Kickstarter, you can.

You know why most of them fail?

'Cause most shit is whack.

'Cause most stuff isn't good.

'Cause most people don't get a fuck.

You can go to AngelList and hit up all the angel investors.

The real question is before you go there is is I think most

people say--

- [Man] (inaudible)

- Everybody says to me Gary I can't find the money.

And then I go cool, I'll give you money.

What do you got and then they don't know.

So what am I buying?

Your brand? What? In perpetuity?

- [Man] Yeah. - Got it?

- [Man] Mhmmm.

- We're living through a really interesting time in the world

right now where people don't.

Where art and science and business are colliding and

they're all very different.

I understand the art that's in your heart but how do you going,

yeah, see I got lucky I had the art and the business.

But okay, what am I buying?

There's no buying into Gary Vaynerchuk would've been a very

good idea for a lot of people but it wasn't for sale and

I didn't even know how to sell that like what you sell?