The Ultimate Advice For Every 20 Year Old

(phone ringing)

(phone ringing)

- [Taylor] Hello? - Hey Taylor, it's GaryVee.

You're on The #AskGaryVee Show.

- [Taylor] No way!

- Yes way. - [Taylor] Holy crap.

Okay.

- Where are you from? - [Taylor] Yeah, sweet.

I'm from Buffalo, New York.

- I love it, are you a Bills fan?

(Taylor sighs)

- [Taylor] Unfortunately yes.

- I know you said unfortunately cause you're trying--

- [Taylor] We're not doing good.

- Well listen, neither are the Jets, don't worry.

So what's going on?

(Taylor laughs)

- [Taylor] Nothing much.

I basically was just dying to ask you a question.

Currently graduated college last May

and I'm trying to build my own business,

brand, hustle, all that kinda stuff.

My question for you is, and I'm probably sure

that a lot of people ask this

- It's okay. - [Taylor] The same things.

- It's okay.

- [Taylor] How do you get over

the stump of you're graduating, and you feel

all this pressure 'cause you're trying

to build something but you're still so young.

But you wanna do the stuff and grow it big.

I'm just in a rut and I can't get out of it.

But I have a hustle and a drive

that I know I'll be able to build something.

But I'm just in this space that's not--

- I know where you're at.

- [Taylor] That's not allowing me to.

- Let me help you.

The space you're in is

probably the macro, micro issue.

So it's macro patience, micro speed, right?

- [Taylor] Yeah. - so What do I mean by that?

You need to be patient as fuck, Taylor.

You're 22, 23-years-old.

Like what do you think is gonna happen overnight?

- [Taylor] Yeah, I know.

- so You need to be fast.

7 A.M. to two in the morning every day.

But in the big picture, you need to realize nothing good

is gonna happen for the next six years.

- [Taylor] Okay.

Do you think that I should just

try every good idea that I think

I have and just go for it all out?

Or do you think I should stick with one thing at a time?

- I think the fact that you even

asked that question, that you should

taste flirting with a lot of different things

because you'll be crippled by the "what if" if you don't.

Even though that's not the perfect

formula to build the biggest short term wealth

because you should triple down on one thing

instead of being half pregnant on nine.

- [Taylor] Okay, I like that.

- Taylor, let me tell you something.

Let me ask you, the pressure, who do you?

Like are you trying to prove to yourself,

to your siblings, to your parents, to the world?

Like Who you're trying to prove that

you're successful to, or that this

was the right call, or you're gonna make it?

That's what you have to figure out.

- [Taylor] Hmm, that's a good question.

- Like, what are you impatient for?

Like, what's the problem?

You wanna buy a fuckin Rolex?

What's the rush?

- [Taylor] I feel like I've known

that I'm meant to do something big.

- Me too. - [Taylor] And I grew up in

an entrepreneurial household. - Me too.

- [Taylor] So it's in my blood,

it's in my bones. - Good.

- [Taylor] I feel like I watch

all these other Millennials hitting

these huge I guess milestones in their life--

- What milestones?

- [Taylor] Then I'm sitting here.

- Let's break it down. How old are you?

- [Taylor] I'm 22, about to be 23.

- Okay, what milestone, please give

me a Millennial and the milestone

they achieved that makes you feel

like you're just sitting in fucking Buffalo?

- [Taylor] Well, I'm sitting in Buffalo,

which is one thing I'm not happy about.

But-- - That's right 'cause

it's home of the Buffalo Bills, piece of shit team.

- [Taylor] Yeah. (laughs)

- But before you go there, forget about sitting in Buffalo,

who's the Millennial and what's the milestone

that's making you feel like you're sitting there?

Go.

The truth, go.

- [Taylor] Well. honestly there's people

on social media which definitely

is not always true-- - Who?

- [Taylor] But I watch, oh god, the only thing

on the spot I can think of is Kardashian

or Jenner which is lame, but... (laughing)

- Can we talk about this please?

- [Taylor] Yeah, I feel like, sure.

- Like you're telling me that Kylie Jenner's fucking

trillion followers on Instagram

makes you feel like you're just sitting there?

- [Taylor] No, I feel like the fact

that she's already got a business

started that's super successful,

obviously that comes with her fame.

- Did you factor in the fact that

her sisters and mom architected

something for 10 years while she was a teenager that she

was able to walk directly into, that gave her a springboard?

That she had the financial capabilities

of deploying ungodly amounts of plastic surgery,

and all the other variable things that she's been able

to do to create that culture, and that financial benefit?

- [Taylor] Yeah.

- Did you factor in that her mom

is a ninja architect of business and created that framework?

- [Taylor] Yeah and I feel like

not many people give them the credit for that.

- I agree. - [Taylor] I totally think that

they built this empire. - I agree.

But what the fuck does that have to do with you?

- [Taylor] It has nothing to do with me.

I know. - No shit.

Remember how I?

I don't know if you saw this where I said

stop looking at your friends' shit

or whatever the fuck I put on Instagram?

- [Taylor] Yeah.

- I don't know if you saw it

or not but it doesn't matter.

Like you looking at the Kardashians

is the most ludicrous horseshit I've ever heard in my life.

(Taylor laughs)

- [Taylor] Well that's just the first one that can pop into my

when you asked me. - Great.

Listen, we're here, we're here.

Give me another one.

- [Taylor] There's a guy in London.

I can't think of his name

at the top of my head. - I'm gonna stop,

I'm gonna stop you right now.

- [Taylor] Okay.

- Let me give you some, I was gonna say fatherly

I guess my father was 40, now I'll give you some

massively older brother, uncle advice.

You ready? - [Taylor] (laughs) Okay, yes.

- Every second you spend thinking

about what somebody else has is taking

away from time that you could create something for yourself.

- [Taylor] Yeah.

- You're losing.

You're losing 'cause you're laying

in your bed looking at somebody's fucking

glamorous photoshopped picture of them doing something cool.

And you're envious, and you're jealous,

and you're impatient, and it's crippling your upside.

- [Taylor] Yeah 'cause that's where

I wanna be and I know I'm not there yet.

- You haven't done shit.

- [Taylor] I know.

- So go do shit that actually gets you there

so that you earn it instead of like

you dwelling that you're not there

and hoping something's gonna happen.

I don't know what's going through your mind.

- [Taylor] Yeah. Well I guess I'm hustling on the side

but I don't think I'm doing enough, I guess.

- You definitely aren't doing enough

if you have enough time to fucking

consume the content of Kardashian

and some boy in London.

- [Taylor] That's true. (laughs)

- Taylor, listen to me.

Taylor, listen.

You've gotta deploy patience and you gotta love the process.

I'm addicted to the process of the battle scars,

the setbacks, the lack of, you know.

Taylor, I gave up my entire 20s, all of 'em.

Imagine not doing anything fun or going anywhere

for the next eight years, including Saturday and Sunday.

That's what I did from 22 to 30.

Every day I spent 15 hours a day

in a liquor store, thought about a liquor store,

built a liquor store, sold wine.

Like spent every day.

Like this last weekend, don't lie to me Taylor,