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GARY
VAYNERCHUK
GARY VAYNERCHUK
ONE OF THE FEW THINGS
I COMPLAIN ABOUT:
COMPLAINING
I HATE complaining. This advice is
for the complainers. I’m not upset with
you if you play video games all day or
watch Netflix all night. I’m mad at you
if you’re doing that and you’re baffled
by why you’re not making more money
and living your dream. If you’re happy
and content, you’ve won. But if you’re
complaining, it means you haven’t won
yet and you should stop complaining
and do something about it instead.
Someone I look up to most in the
world (tied with you, Dad) is my
mother. Hands down, one of the
most intriguing things about my
mother is her inability to complain.
It’s probably one of my favorite traits
that she’s passed down to me. I find it
incredibly attractive and it’s a quality
I adore in my wife as well. It’s even
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something I try to instill in my children
because I think complaining is ugly.
Personally, I don’t complain. (Except
about the New York Jets—I complain
about them a lot.) If you look at my
tweets historically, maybe there’s
two or three complaints. You’ll never
catch me complaining about not
seeing my kids enough or about not
having enough leisure time because
if I had an issue with those things, I
would either do something about it
or at least recognize that I have the
ability to do something about it.
There’s no shifting into the complain
zone when I encounter an issue
I’m not happy with. I’m very “put
your head down” when it comes to
problem solving. It’s about assessing