Kipp Bodnar (@kbodnar32) over at DigitalCapitalism.com, links to a very inspiring and frank talk from Gary Vaynerchuck in a recent blog post. Let’s watch it here, it’s worth the 15 minutes…
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhqZ0RU95d4[/video]
Kipp calls out what I also feel is the most important part of that talk: Be Yourself. Well Kipp actually goes a bit beyond that, his point is that if you are yourself and are not hyper-concerned with pleasing everyone then you will piss a few people off – and that’s good.
I’m not sure you have to piss people off, but I agree that you have to be willing to allow that to happen. Part of being yourself is being passionate about something. Being passionate lends to having very strong opinions and being able to stand up to others with differing strong opinions. And that’s where you provide value.
So where are you providing value? Who are you arguing with?
September 24th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Adam,
Thanks for adding your thoughts on this subject and linking back to my post. Gary did a great job and you are right, passion is polarizing and people need to be more passionate.
Kipp