This is a short segment from a YouTube Q&A (Capitalism.com, Aug 22, 2016) featuring Gary Vaynerchuk. In this chunk he addresses the fear of losing material success, arguing that many people become risk-averse after gaining comfort and refuse short-term setbacks that would enable larger future gains. He emphasizes embracing hard work and parallel projects (working late hours) to push past complacency and grow beyond a current income level.
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Everybody is. You didn't have anything. You found an idea, you found somebody that gave you a concept. You got something that worked and now you got something, something that you were sold by the American media machine that you want, like a fucking watch or a car. Like, you know you got something and the fear is you don't want to go back to not having it. My greatest rationale for marrying my wife and the greatest thing that I know about myself is not only am I capable to going back to Queen's studio apartment, I secretly want it to happen like, you know, Rocky V when it's all sad and shit. Cause he's like, back to the thing. And it was like, oh, too bad. I'm like, that's fucking awesome. Like, for me it's the game, right? And so like, I don't need fancy shit. Like, fuck. That's not game kills me. Yes, I want to buy the jets.
But I won't buy a jet on the way there, right? I may because it's actually time efficient, I've come to learn. But it's really interesting. I think the thing that makes me sad is people accumulate a little something and they don't want to go backwards. And so they're not willing to change their behavior to go three steps forward. People are literally, literally crippled and scared to take one step back a place they've been. And they should understand that's what scares them though. Instead of going three steps forward and they get into that hump and that million that they're making is now their handcuffs and they're stuck. And the reason I push hard work is there's a lot of people in here who are in that exact situation and still have seven hours a day to start something new, but aren't putting in the hustle to do that. Because that's what I would do if I was in that crowd making a milli. Wanting to make 10 million or 100 million because I'm ambitious or want to build businesses or want to get to the next level. I hate selling fucking trinkets or whatever the fuck you do.
I would then take eight hours a day and work from 7, 8, 9 at night to 2 and 3 in the morning doing something else in parallel to this to siphon and allow that to be the big thing.
Yeah, you like that one, right? I saw who clapped. I'm gonna give you D.
