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EPISODE · Mar 6, 2026 · 8 MIN

9 Minutes to Remind You Why Gratitude Is the #1 Ingredient for Happiness

from The GaryVee Audio Experience · host Gary Vaynerchuk

In this episode of the GaryVee Audio Experience, I dive into the essential components of a truly happy and successful life: perspective, self-love, and a redefined sense of success. I break down why the simple act of being grateful is the foundation of my work ethic and why "luck" isn't what you think it is. I also share my unique take on the relationship between ego, humility, and self-esteem.You’ll learn about:The 400 Trillion to One Odds of Being YouWhy Ego Is Just Pure InsecurityThe "Constellation" of Self-Esteem, Confidence, and HumilityHow to Counter Hate with LoveWhy You Must Be Kind to Yourself Before Anyone ElseThe Strategy to Get Everyone to Love ThemselvesWhy We Must Change the Definition of Success from Money

In this episode of the GaryVee Audio Experience, I dive into the essential components of a truly happy and successful life: perspective, self-love, and a redefined sense of success. I break down why the simple act of being grateful is the foundation of my work ethic and why "luck" isn't what you think it is. I also share my unique take on the relationship between ego, humility, and self-esteem.You’ll learn about:The 400 Trillion to One Odds of Being YouWhy Ego Is Just Pure InsecurityThe "Constellation" of Self-Esteem, Confidence, and HumilityHow to Counter Hate with LoveWhy You Must Be Kind to Yourself Before Anyone ElseThe Strategy to Get Everyone to Love ThemselvesWhy We Must Change the Definition of Success from Money

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Perspective. It's so interesting to me why I deem myself happy because I just am so grateful. Like things like you think we got the excited amount of, you know the data, the data behind being human beings is 400 trillion to one. When you just start there and you realize forget about the odds of like meeting homelessness or being born in the communist country, like just actually becoming a human.

Like. Like I always think each other like your mom could have another glass of wine that could have been late because I'm trying. The odds are so insane. I'm just so grateful for what I have versus what I don't have.

And I think people just have all these admirations and envy and all these hard wiring things to me it's perspective. Just like there's so. I just genuinely believe there's always somebody that has worse. And the problem is that's where I default into mentally and have practiced took myself there versus somebody's facet.

I know a lot of you say I hate luck. Let me tell you, luck. It's luck is that you were built in a way where that is genuinely the way you feel because then you actually do it because you love it and then enormously awesome shit happens to you. So how do you think I work so hard?

Because I'm filled with gratitude that I was built that way. Because that gift, that fucking gift is the fucking thing. This is the Gary Vee audio experience. I just really, really believe in what I see.

And I have like just incredible acting and ambition to try to scale it. I see a clear path to how we can get there which is grounding on building up self esteem, countering Kate with loves when I was so hate on Kate triggered right? I'm like I go triggered. It hurts.

Like every single person says it hurts. I don't know. I wonder if I can get others see themselves the way I do which is just like a, like kind of like an empty pipe. I'm just an empty pipe.

It's like you give me accolades, my mom, you shit on me, you just don't know me. It's all empty. Just like I think of ego, confidence and humility as a triangle. It's not like a triangle.

Cause usually I get things together. It's like just these constellation and like three things that like the game's like if you can just focus just on hey, I'm self stealing, help the person. I'm doing the best I can, do the best I can and, and humility, like if it's going well, being like yeah, okay, there Are people and people in our cultures feelings that are doing better than me, you know, better looking nicer and smarter than me. If you play in that, you win.

If you go to ego, which is insecurity, it's all over. I think a lot about that. It's like ego, which is just pure insecurity. Like you think you're shit, so then you make pretend that you're good.

You think you're shit, so it's lack of self confidence. So then you spend all your time shitting on everybody else and fake pretending that you're good. Posturing fall to protect that you're weak. The reason I give so much trust, you know, this is control.

You fuck me cool. You lost, not me. Compassion is really like the difference between empathy and compassion is something that's going on under. There's a lot of people who like are nice and there's a lot of sensitive people that are nice.

But their weakness and their insecurity creates scenarios where they lash out and aren't nice. It's a funny one because if you're sensitive and empathetic, you do pep feelings. You actually have a lot of good. But it's your weakness and your sensitivity that's causing your bad.

What does that even mean? Like, who talks like that? Everyone wants to build their so fast like posture. People's intent is selfish because they're trying to plug holes.

My mother and my circumstance plugged my holes before they started Zone world with no holes. But like fuck a lot less than a lot of people. People live their whole life trying to close their holes. Like holes are lows.

Let me go close other people's holes. I'm fucking closing other people's holes. So I think a lot about these thoughts. Like because when you're confident but humble, you're just balancing, you know, you're purpling purpley.

Also for lack self esteem, you're in trouble. And that's just if you don't think you're good, it's over before it started. You lost. They want people who are sensitive or soft or insecure flash because they want to attack first.

Yeah. Because in their mind they're like, if I stay passive here, it'll hurt me. It's gonna hurt you first. Just hurt, you know, a lot of dangerous insecure.

They're like, I'm put down that person right now. Let me start beating them down. Make them weaker so they don't get me. I'm like, hey, because nobody's doing to me.

It's not happening. All you Go into like you know one side you suck. I'm like cool. You know what I mean?

Which is why like everybody seriously everybody man. I really talk to camera like it like Jesus. Like what everybody else thinks too. Like don't mess again.

Like you'll be better tomorrow. Like beating yourself up. It makes no sense. There's just a lot to do.

I just want you to do it. You know your dad told you suck I get. But it's just not true. It's not true that you suck.

It's not. You think you suck which then triggers everything else. You can just change your mind. You can.

You can love yourself. How can you be kind? Does anybody else cannot hide yourself. How impossible you energy give this creature how the ones were treated.

I was like, you just want to remind me how to move about my money when you're going to too much no money focus on what you do. It's got a lot of good feelings for like you kind of feel really reinvigorated. I feel more ambitious but I'm like okay, let's fucking go like 1% of the time. Like if it does a good long thing to me, I'm a good bricklayer.

At 22 it didn't feel blinding to me. I was gonna give a deck in half my dad and then start seeing now like okay, six other people not happy. Let's go. One, two.

Let me get you today. I'll get you today. Tomorrow I get somebody else. And in four days I'm get somebody else watching this in 19 days and in three some days I'm gonna get somebody who's gonna get somebody else that I couldn't make up to you.

But they don't realize that themselves accept self awareness. You're not gonna be an athlete. You're not gonna be a billionaire. You're not gonna be a supermodel.

Cool. It'll be something else. And that leads to everything. The reason I've always had videos I'm not gonna cross.

We gotta figure out how to get every video on itself. Which is why we cuz not everybody has skills anymore. But we can teach everybody tough skills and being content and having what they have. Gratitude.

I really want it. It's a game of why not. I really want the world. We have means that I will.

Emily. 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 stream.

See you later.

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