And many years later, these individuals who took their parents, advice and didn't did not pursue was, in their heart end up many years later, hating their parents, because they are stuck in a dinner job. One of the things that could be closer to death without dying is having to get up every morning and go to a job. You hate give me some overarching, spikely legend wisdom on. What's a good way to think about creativity from your perspective in your journey, not only you and how you do it, but others you've admired and meant through the last 40 years that you're, like.

Oh, that's, her process. Oh that's his process. What should be the thought process or some hypotheses of how to get there and be successful at it? Well, i want to thank you gary vee for lobbing, a big fat one, a big fat juicy, fastball you're winning you're softball right down the little plate, and i i for i'm in my fourth decade as a filmmaker, and i speak all the time at universities and In colleges, and one of the things i always try, try to strive, i try to hit home is that over the years over the decades, parents have killed more dreams. I'm gon na repeat that parents have killed more dreams.

Anybody - and this is specifically when we come to the arts. Parents can understand what you why you go to med school. Why go to business school? But when it comes to the art, many parents have no understanding how to become an actor, a dancer, a riot, a porter, a poet, a painter whatever it is. The arts is some type of mystical thing, and, and parents want the best for their children, a hundred percent and they think in their wisdom they could give the vice to their children.

Nothing want to do with the traditional work thing. Do you think your parents? Do you think, do you think yeah and a lot of times knowing how parents might have took a second mortgage on the house and whatnot and done everything? So you can go to a great undergrad school and the bills, and these student loans are crazy, and so there comes that parental pressure and also guilt, knowing that what our parents have done and many years later, these individuals who took their parents advice and did not Pursue was, in their heart end up many years later, hating their parents, because they are stuck in a den and job, because one of the things that could be closer to death without dying is having to get up every morning and go to a job. You hate. Let's talk about that strategy and i think i want to highlight gary what you did with v friends and um, which has been massively successful for those of you who don't know um right now.

There was one that was auctioned for as high as 1.2 million uh and the lowest current value of it is of one is 30k. So what did you do to bring branding and generate over 91 million dollars in the first 90 days? And then i do want to come back to blockchain, but i want to start with some of those strategies. Well, the thing that is most fascinating to me about the blockchain and one and a lot of my friends reached out to me when i went so hard and they're like man. I've watched you for 15 years leave so much money on the table to preserve your reputation.

Why are you ruining it now, basically, is what they were saying: you're doing something so high risk, and i'm and i said to them said you don't understand the blockchain. It's actually the reverse. If you are the creator of a project, an nft project, you're, actually more in control than anything that has ever happened before. Let me explain with vfriends.

First, i use the utility of the smart contract to create a three-year promise. Contract of a conference called v-con that i'm doing at u.s bank stadium in minnesota in may, which you know it's it's a profound lineup of every of the who's michael's even coming, and i don't think he's ever been to minnesota, and so, like you know it's, you Know it is cold there. I am aware, thank you, um, the you know, and so first i think people are not using the utility aspect of nfts enough right now, right now, we're in the art and collectible phase no different than the internet 94. We were in the information age right, the internet's awesome for information.

The internet was awesome for information. It was also going to do so many more things in our society. The blockchain right now is on art and collectibles, but it's a contract, and so i did a three-year conference. I did a lot of access tokens um, where zooms like information things, that people actually value besides the collectible, but the part that i was referring to earlier, and this is why i wanted to be in business.

You know candy's, really, the only other major thing i'm really involved in is that i knew how michael thought about the consumer. Let me just paint the picture for everybody: who's hesitant to do an nft project because they actually are good people and they fear that the value goes down with with candy with me. Friends, if god forbid the market crashes, and so you know it's one thing for all the people that spent two thousand dollars for it last may and are selling it for 30, 40. 70.

100. 000.. They did great, but what about the guy or girl who bought it today for 40, 000 and the market goes to 8 000.. For me, because it's on the blockchain, i can provide more value for that person.

You're the central bank you're, the country you're in control. So i just you know: i've been telling a lot of my friends who i think have not the best behavior in mind who are going to be like. Well, they made it. You know they bought it.

They took a risk, i'm like it, works a little bit different you're in control of that economy and your reputation is completely tied in so i think for the people that have good intent and have resources and are smart for me, i take a lot of usd Off the table with my project and put it in one place just for the rainy day, so i can deploy that capital back to the people that own v friends and i think the best projects will do that gary hi hi again um. My name is burkhan. Firstly, i love you you're, a legend um and secondly, my um. My question relates to tick-tock, you kind of spoke about it, a little bit towards the end there, but i was already in the line and it was too late to change my mind and not ask the question.

So here we go um strategies in terms of tick. Tock, i am a sales coach currently and i want to start posting more on tick tok. I do instagram and facebook already. What do you recommend? I would do.

I would do 10 things the way you exactly do them elsewhere and watch them not work. I would consume a shitload of content on tiktok and see trends, and then i would mimic those trends in in your interpretation. For example, one of the trends on tick tock is to actually film another phone of your content on a different platform and talk over it. Right, so you could literally take one phone play, your sales, video on on facebook and then record with another phone and talk over and say, hey, kids, because you know it's younger.

This is what i'm saying on facebook. The version for you to practice now is this right. You see where i'm going yeah you have to come up. You have to consume the reason i always do well.

Is i listen for hundreds of hours before i talk. It's not obvious to you, because you're only seeing the talking part, you don't see the 14 hours that i put in in listening to tick-tock content on the flight here right. It's the same reason: i'm going to crush sports cards this flight here wasn't tick-tock. It was sports cards, you know eventually everyone's gon na be like how are you right about soccer and wrestling and basketball cards? It's because i read for 14 hours, the sale prices on auctions on those categories and then read articles and then went on twitter and searched what people were talking about.

I put in the work, you don't need me to give you the strategy for tick-tock. Go live in tik-tok for 100 hours and you'll figure it out cool. Thank you. You got it.

I view that content is the oxygen that creates awareness around what you're doing so to your point. If you stop creating to do something, you in essence are turning off the oxygen of what you're doing so. The reason i have continuously content created, even though i've gotten remarkably busier in my time, is because i agree with that. I think once you stop creating you become less vulnerable.

Oprah winfrey businesses are not as impactful today as they were a decade ago, because she doesn't have a show, that's just real life and so yeah. I'm a believer that at all costs, as a matter of fact, one of my biggest anxiety points professionally is that, because now v friends is so successful in taking up my time. While i still have to run vayner x the thing that you know, we only have so much time in the day, the biggest casualty to the huge success that i have in nft land is my content. I am definitely in a different output place.

I mean i went seven eight years without putting out four pieces of content on my instagram every day and now i get two a day and that's like a big day and that adds up, and so i'm i'm conscious of that. I think about that. Bro tap talent without work ethic it should. It was a wasted opportunity.

You understand, yeah, it's a wasted opportunity, yeah. I just think about that all the time how many people had loads of talent that either didn't fight to find it. I'm always curious about that like who was the greatest painter of all time, but she or he never decided to paint, gave up yeah not even gave up just didn't even go uh novak djokovic. When i was chopping with him.

Had there not been a tennis court behind his family's uh, he never went out restaurant. He would have never gone there and instead he would have been into skiing he's the greatest he's gon na be when it's all sent on the greatest male tennis player of all time. The serendipity of a tennis court, like i think about that. This is why i push curiosity so heavy like try just try some you were if you said no, i don't sing and just stayed home and played video games or whatever you don't know what would happen.

I know what would have happened all the good that time. Last year used when the happened, that's why i know that part wouldn't happen.