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Eastern Time, which I know a lot of you are, dog walking the gym, just consuming on your travel. I'm live right now probably if you're hearing this or shortly, I'm live at 9am I'm live on all my socials and then the questions themselves. The Tea with garyvee show is back. If you're unaware, the questions themselves are on whatnot. So go check that out. We're@vfriends.com live for that. I'm excited to be doing tea with GaryVee. I'm doing a lot in 2025. It's my home. I miss it. It was such a big deal in Covid and I hope to see you there.

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When I thought about what I wanted to talk about this morning, probably the biggest thing I thought about is how do I get these kids to realize that success that is being pushed on them, what success is, is incredibly twisted. I know that so many people view success from a money place, from a fame place, from a follower's place. All the shit that's being put into your head from the outside world is confusing. And I say that because the only mark of success as you get older is just sheer happiness, simplicity, Joy. When you're 17, when you're 15, when you're sitting in this room listening to me talk, you don't believe that shit as much. I get that. Even when you're 20 and 25 and 30 every day I get thousands of DMs that talk about not believing that money isn't the unlock to happiness. 40, 50, 60 year olds are confused and twisted on how to win life. For the kids in here that are overstressed about some fucking test this week, let me promise you, and this may not go over super well and I apologize, but I need this for the kids. Bad grades is not going to end your life. How you do at school academically is not an indicator to your joy when you get older. Of course, learning how to be disciplined and doing shit that matters, right? But we worry about stuff that ends up not mattering, especially at this age. Of course, for many of you in this room, getting good grades is your way out, is your way to build and if it comes natural to you, that's remarkable. But I had the luxury of chopping it up with your principal and when he told me about his passion of converting the school to a CT school and just the way he sees the world, I just really, really feel happy. In my heart right now that so many of you are going to be affected by that. Especially the freshmen in the room that gonna eventually get impacted by this. But for everybody in this room, please understand a couple things. Life is very different than school, Very different than school. Again, I don't want kids to. I don't wanna leave here and all of a sudden B students become F students and they blame me for that shit. I'm not trying to get that heat. But what I do want is for everybody here to understand what you need to extract out of school to prep you for real life. Extracting out of school. Things like being comfortable with being uncomfortable. Like, I'm aware that not everybody wants to go to this class or that class. It's Monday morning. I'm aware that for a lot of people, last night was a tough night because you didn't want to come in the next day. You live for Friday. Real Talk. That was me when I sat where you're sitting right now. I hated school. I was a bad student. But what I learned in school really mattered to what makes me happy today. One of the biggest issues in the world, not just for kids, but for the grownups in the back, is that we've lost our way with dealing with adversity. The world has lost its way with dealing with adversity. We've become soft. We've become incapable of dealing with things that don't come easy. One of the great things to learn during your four years here is getting through the things that are not as easy. If one kid in this room leaves this talk excited about eating shit, meaning literally being comfortable with getting through stuff that doesn't come easy. My mission will be accomplished here. Life has challenges. It gets complicated. I'm sure it's not lost on a crew like this. There's a lot of high schools that I could visit where the kids have not faced anywhere close to the level adversity that this room has. That is ultimately, for most of you, your strength. Me growing up in a family that had little. And me having to work when I was in high school, after school, every weekend, every summer vacation. That became the foundation of my happiness. In a world where I'm sure a lot of you can look at others and see how they have it easier or how they have it better. I'm excited for y'all to get older eventually and recognize how this chapter was the foundation, how this was the moment. Couple things I want to talk to you guys about before we go into Q and A. One thing that I get A lot of questions from this crew, call it 14 to 18 every day. Probably the DM, I get the most of it, says Gary Vee. How do I make money? So I'm going to attack that a little bit here on a practical kick. And this is fun to talk to y'all, because what I'm about to talk about, I talk to companies and executives and big companies all the time, and they're confused by it. None of you are going to be confused by what I'm about to talk about, because you live in this world. You live this world. So, couple things. Number one, I'm sure most of you have noticed that on TikTok, they've been pushing a lot more live shopping. How many of you are familiar with on TikTok tuning in? When you go through your for your page, you see somebody doing like a QVC thing, selling shit on TikTok, raise your hand. I'm just trying to get a sense. Raise it high. I want to get a sense. All right, good. The middle really fucks with it. What's the matter with y'all? You don't see it? So for all of you, one of the biggest opportunities right now is TikTok shop. Literally. Literally going to the dollar store or grabbing stuff that's laying around in your house. Going live on TikTok and selling is stunning. To see what's going on with this right now. For many of you, another move would be, you got 20 bucks, you go to TJ Maxx, you buy three things for 20 bucks, you go on TikTok Shop, you sell those things for 50 bucks, you take that 50 bucks, you do it again and again and again and again for the next year or two. Anybody that goes live on TikTok, in a TikTok shop, even if you have no followers, will start to reach people on TikTok. And that is a big arbitrage. That's a huge opportunity. And for this crew, obviously, some people are going to feel scared to go on camera or things of that nature. But anybody who is about that life, I could not recommend this more to you. It's a huge opportunity. And what you're gonna learn on it, what you're gonna learn on it, is really gonna impact you. Really gonna impact you. Couple other things, content on social media. So the other thing that's going on on social media right now, from a business standpoint, is you don't have to have any followers, any followers to have a post go viral. So the social media that I grew up on, when you were little Little kids, you had to amass followers for anyone to see your stuff. I think that comes very natural to all of you. You understand that what's happened in the last 12 months is the game is completely flipped. Now, even if you have no followers in here, your first post can get 10,000 views if it's good. I was just talking to principal, I was talking to my team. This book right here that I just wrote, Day Trading Attention, just came out and really breaks it down. I just decided in the back room that I'm going to send hundreds of books here of this book so some of you can grab that shit. Don't clap. No clapping on that. Because if you don't read it, nothing's going to happen. You can clap after you read it or you use it because another thing I'd love to talk to you about that I'm obsessed with and again isn't just a 15, 16, 17 year old thing, it's a 20, 30 year old thing, it's a 40, 50 year old thing for the back is we talk too much. People always talking about what you're gonna do. I need you to look at the people you're sitting with. Your homies always talking about what they're gonna do and not doing it. We need to shut our fucking mouths. Uh huh. And we need to start doing instead of talking. I promise you nothing you want in your head right now, nothing you're hoping and dreaming to do for you and your family will ever happen if you just talk about it. People talk about things and think they're doing it. We talk too much. So I appreciate the clapping. I know it came from a good place. But what would make me much happier is when I send them here and they're free and however the school's gonna do it, that you actually read it. But actually reading it is also not the game. Actually posting. You know this. Teachers, parents, the media, they're all demonizing social media to y'all. And you know, you sit there and you watch it aimlessly all day, I get it. But guess what? Your parents, the teachers, we did the same shit. We just did it on television and magazines. The world's always the same. What's not the same is how you're gonna actually attack it. You can use social media just to waste your day or you could use it as the biggest weapon in the world. If I had social media when I was your age, I promise you one thing. My mom and I laugh about this all the time. I would have never graduated high school. Not because I was bad or that was good or bad, but. Because if I had social media, I just would have built business after business after business, and I just wouldn't have been able to get there. I was doing it without the Internet and social media in the analog world, so I would have definitely done it. My friends, kids, this is crazy. You understand the computer you have in your pocket, the phone, is a more powerful computer than Ronald Reagan had in the White House when he was the President of the United States. The world's changed, and you live in a time and era where everyone's trying to tell you what's wrong and what's not good. And meanwhile, you've never had more opportunity in your life. If you harness this stuff for good, for you, it will change your life. And so please do not buy into the negative and choose optimism, no matter how deep the adversity is. I promise you, you're capable, and I get it. Listen, I'm sitting here giving the talk, and I'm literally thinking about kids sitting in the audience right now listening to me, and they're like, whatever. Can't. No, I don't see it. Maybe for you, bro, but not for me. All that shit. And what really motivates me to be here this morning is with the desperate hope that just one of you in this audience hears me. Just one. I can't get all of you to believe what I'm saying. I just know the math of how this shit works. But if I can get one person in here to understand that everything you hear that tells you that you can't is fake. If one person realizes they can, whether they decide to go down TikTok shop, whether they decide to just post content about whatever you're interested in, no matter how chill or whatever you are in this room, all of you give a shit about something. Something. And if you make content about that on social media that's free, that can be the gateway to a whole new world for you. You will learn, you will build community. It will be real. But you just can't talk about it. You got to start being about it. I mean, that.