The Greatest Year - Akira the Don, Gary Vaynerchuk

Let’s welcome to the stage

Mr. Gary Vaynerchuk

All right, let’s go, let’s go

Sit down, let’s do this

I wish

I wish we had better perspective

I wish that there was some weird genie

That could take us back into time

So that every one of you could live one fucking day

In your great-great-grandparents' shoes

And understand how fucking good you have it

Understand how fucking good you have it

Like, if you really, really understood

Really, really understood

I’m not naive to what’s happening in our society

Let me just say this very clear

So, everybody gets it through their fucking dome

This is the greatest year

To ever be alive

In the history of mankind

This is the greatest year

To ever be alive

In the history of mankind

This is the best

This is the best

This is the greatest year

To ever be alive

In the history of mankind

Fascinated by this

Fascinated by fucking mindset

It’s a binary decision

If you’re gonna be positive or negative about shit

When you bet on optimism

When you’re on the offense

When you were playing towards intangibles

You do something super-duper interesting

You start suffocating excuses

If you asked me

What the number one thing is

That I’m thankful for that my parents gave me

Taking me from a communist country

And moving me to the US

Parenting me well, roof and clothes

If you asked me the number-one thing

I wake up every morning

And thank that my parents did

Is I never saw either one of them complain about jack shit

And it basically created learned behavior for me

I’m incapable of

Actually complaining about shit

This is the greatest year

To ever be alive

In the history of mankind

This is the greatest year

To ever be alive

In the history of mankind

This is the best

This is the best

This is the greatest year

To ever be alive

In the history of mankind

This is the best

We have it the best

And all I see is people sitting around

Dwelling around dumb shit

What they don’t have

Instead of focusing on what they do have

The Internet is a fucking miracle

It’s a fucking miracle

The Internet is a fucking miracle

It’s a fucking miracle

There was no side hustle for your great grandparents

When it was 9:00 p.m.

it was dark and cold outside

We just get used to shit so fast

And in our speed

Of getting used to how fucking awesome it is

I’m just desperate

For you to not lose perspective

This is the greatest year

To ever be alive

In the history of mankind

This is the greatest year

To ever be alive

In the history of mankind

This is the best

This is the best

This is the greatest year

To ever be alive

In the history of mankind

Both my grandfathers had the same exact thing that I had

And because they were Jewish in communist Russia post-World War II

Their communism put them both in jail

For 10 years in Siberia

Like, just think about that

Timing, opportunity, yes

Life is binary

It’s either offense or defense

You’re either sitting in your seat right now

On the offense, or you’re not

There is no fucking half pregnant

There’s no in between

You’re either this or that

(Electronic Voice)

This is the greatest year

To ever be alive

In the history of mankind