Omar Usman – 3 Things I Learned from the #AskGaryVee Book
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In this video, Gary V has taught three things he learned from the hashtag ask Gary v book by Gary Vaynerchuk. The first is that cloud and dirt are the overarching big vision, guiding values, and tactical stuff that must be executed. The second is to hustle, which is a way to say there's no excuses for not doing it. The third is to be self aware of one's strengths and weaknesses, identifying one's strengths and weaknesses and assigning out weaknesses to others.
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Hey, guys. Today, I'm sharing 3 things I
learned from the hashtag ask Gary v book
by Gary Vaynerchuk.
The book covers a lot of different subjects,
but there's 3 I wanted to focus on
in particular.
The first is clouds and dirt. This is
probably the most famous lesson in the whole
book. Clouds and dirt go something like this.
You need to be focused on the clouds
and the dirt and ignore everything in between.
The clouds are the overarching
big vision, big picture guiding principle, guiding values
that you have, and the dirt is all
of the tactical stuff that you need to
execute on that vision.
The mistake that most people make is they
either have a big vision and they don't
know how to execute on it. And he
gives an example
of a CEO saying that part of our
core strategy is being is to be on
Instagram,
but then they don't know how to use
it. They don't know the details of it.
On the other side, you have people that
are caught up in the minutiae of their
work, but it's disconnected from the larger picture
and they don't know why they're doing what
they're doing or what relevance it has. A
lot of people are stuck in the middle
as well and that's when they're working early
hard but they notice that they are plateauing.
So he says that in order to stay
out of the middle, you have to focus
on the clouds and the dirt and keep
pushing at the extremes.
Everything that's
not tactically executing on your vision or part
of your vision is usually a waste of
time. One of the examples that he gives
of something that's the clouds in terms of
the, you know, values that he operates under,
he talks about bringing 51%
of the value to any relationship
whether it's with a client, an employee, or
a complete stranger.
The second thing I learned was to hustle.
And Gary v's hustle is a lot different
than most of us are used to.
In the the the hashtag ask Gary v
channel, his YouTube channel, is actually documentation of
showing how he works from basically 6 AM
until midnight and how hard he goes and
doesn't waste any time.
He says that if you've got something that
you're chasing, you have to hustle for it.
If you have time to watch Game of
Thrones or Netflix, then don't complain about not
having the time to execute on your goals.
You have to be take advantage of every
single minute that you have and try to
work harder and smarter than everybody else. Some
people may have more natural talent than others,
but if you hustle, you can close some
of those gaps.
Hustle is basically a way of saying there's
no excuses for not chasing the goals that
you have. Most people simply aren't hustling hard
enough.
The third thing that I learned was self
awareness. And this is one of the most
critical skills that a person can have. A
lot of times leaders falter or leaders get
narcissistic or egotistic
because they don't have people in their inner
circle that will call them out and tell
it like it is. And that creates a
false sense of reality. It's like those people
in American Idol who think that they're really
amazing but, in actuality, they're terrible because no
one around them has told them that they
need to do something else. So as a
leader, as anyone trying to improve, you have
to have people in your circle that will
tell you like it is and tell you
the areas that you need to improve
and that makes you aware of your strengths
and weaknesses.
One of the challenges that we have is
that we live in an environment and a
culture that basically tells us you can do
whatever you want as long as you work
hard enough or you can have whatever you
want as long as you dream about it
or you, you know, you deserve it, whatever
it is that you want to do.
And the reality is I might want to
play in the NBA but I'm not I
don't have that natural talent. I don't have
that skill set. No matter how hard I
work, it's probably not going to happen. In
the same way, we've got to be aware
of our strengths and our weaknesses
in regards to our other skills, our technical
skills, our professional skills.
So be very self critical and self aware
of what you're good at and what your
weaknesses are. And once you've identified those, Gary
says,
focus on your strengths and delegate out your
weaknesses. That's 3 things I learned from the
hashtag askgaryvbook.
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