Pod Insights The GaryVee Audio Experience Don't Change Who You Are Because of One Person About this episode In this bonus episode of the GaryVee Audio Experience, I talk to a young writer who got declined from a writing team and was ready to change herself to fit in. I share why one random middle-management person doesn't get to decide your worth, why I was ranked 243rd out of 254 in my class, and why self-awareness beats gatekeeping every time. I also encourage her to post her work on Instagram and let the market decide instead.
You'll learn about:
• One Person Doesn't Get to Decide
• Valuing Yourself Over Their Opinion
• Self-Awareness Over Gatekeeping
• Letting the Market Decide
• Not Changing Yourself to Fit In
Transcript 0:00 Speaker 00 This is the Gary Vee Audio Experience.
0:05 Speaker 00 How are you?
0:06 Speaker 01 I'm good.
0:07 Speaker 00 What's your name?
0:08 Speaker 01 Alicia.
0:08 Speaker 00 Alicia, how you doing?
0:09 Speaker 01 I'm good.
0:10 Speaker 00 Good.
0:10 Speaker 01 Okay, so, me, my, I want to become an author.
0:15 Speaker 00 Okay.
0:15 Speaker 01 I want to become just like you.
0:17 Speaker 00 Amazing.
0:17 Speaker 01 And I have been writing, it's my passion. And I have, I had applied to this writing on YCT and I spilled my heart out, it was just me.
0:27 Speaker 00 Mm-hmm.
0:28 Speaker 01 Just me.
0:28 Speaker 00 Raw.
0:28 Speaker 01 Yes. They declined me.
0:31 Speaker 00 Yep.
0:31 Speaker 01 So it's like, it's like, they...
0:36 Speaker 00 Yeah, I get it.
0:36 Speaker 01 It's like, that's me.
0:38 Speaker 00 Yeah.
0:39 Speaker 01 It's like, they're not accepting me.
0:41 Speaker 00 Fuck them!
0:42 Speaker 01 But it's like, should I?
0:45 Speaker 00 No, but honestly guys, first of all, they didn't decline you. One random fucking person that read your shit declined you. Fuck them!
0:54 Speaker 01 But it's like, imagine if I changed some stuff up. If I changed me, they would've probably took me.
0:58 Speaker 00 You're wrong, you're wrong. Listen to my face, I'm telling you right to your face, you're wrong. You're valuing somebody else's opinion too much.
1:10 Speaker 00 You're wrong.
1:13 Speaker 00 I, I'm just telling, I'm, this is not, this is not a debate. You're fucking wrong. Do you understand? You're letting one random person... Listen, do you, do you understand how many people would've hired me? None.
1:27 Speaker 00 Who's, who's got Instagram in here? Cool, go to it right now, please, do me a huge fucking favor. Go to Instagram, go to Gary V E E, that's my account. Go 10, 11 posts back, you'll see my report card. I was ranked 243rd out of 254 in my class. 243 out of 254 in my class. You know why? Because I knew it was bullshit. For me, it might not be bullshit for you. This is about self-awareness, you have to know who the fuck you are. But for me, it was bullshit, because I didn't need it. Because I wasn't, I didn't give a fuck what Saturn, how many rings Saturn had.
2:06 Speaker 00 Listen to me. You can't let something be valuable more than you can. You're pandering to them. Let them come to you. Take that same essay and post that shit on Instagram with a photo and see what happens. See what happens. Let the market decide, not some bullshit middle management person that read your shit. Good. Of course it's true. And when you're young and 13 and 15 and 9, you think you gotta change your shit up because you don't know how it's played. That's why I'm here to tell you exactly how it's played. One fucking person read your story, my dear. And fuck that person.
3:04 Speaker 00 Hey everybody, if you enjoyed this podcast, please go back and look at the prior episodes. They're loaded. I appreciate your attention and thanks for being part of this.
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