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The Keys to Success
anyway. Yeah, and I really wanted to be able to, you know, to go into an office, work for 12 hours a day, and then clock out. Like, I would love that. I would love working for a long time. And I never got the opportunity. And then YouTube came along, and then I got the opportunity to work hard. But up until YouTube, I wasn't doing anything. And even though I wanted to do stuff, there was nothing. At least I'm 100% certain there was something for me to do, but it just felt like there was nothing to do. Even though I had this strong urge to work really hard, there wasn't anything there. Right.
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here— what do you mean? There's people sitting on the beach right now. We just finished filming and we ran here to record this. Like we do not
stop. You know what the toughest part was of like this whole like like getting a career started is like working hard. That aspect I never understood. 'Cause like when people tell you like, you know like when you pull up next to a guy in a Lamborghini and you'…
hard. Yeah, and you can only do like one Vine a day
anyway. Yeah, and I really wanted to be able to, you know, to go into an office, work for 12 hours a day, and then clock out. Like, I would love that. I would love working for a long time. And I never got the opportunity. And then YouTube came along, and then I got the opportunity to work hard. But up until YouTube, I wasn't doing anything. And even though I wanted to do stuff, there was nothing.…
Yeah. Well, you were in LA. You weren't like— I'm sure if you stayed in Vernon Hills, something would have presented itself to you.
Maybe. Like selling real estate or whatever it was. Regardless, I think the toughest part about your career is finding something to work hard at or work hard for. Right. And like, but once you find it and you're like, and you're loving it, like I am loving th…
done. I mean, I think the biggest mistake I made was just like not just finding something that worked. I kept trying to do things that like weren't