The #1 Skill to Develop is the Ability to Not Judge Yourself

0:01This is the Gary Vee audio experience.

0:05How do you make determinations on where and how you spend your time, knowing how valuable and how limited your time is?

0:13Oh gosh, I'm really happy you're asking this question because if you can internalize what I'm about to say, you will not believe what it's about to do for you.

0:21The answer is the ability not to judge myself.

0:26By you know how a lot of time, there's a lot of people in, there's a really dirty secret in the strategy world of like Bain and McKinsey where if you really get them drunk, they admit that the actions lead to the strategy, not the other way around.

0:39That's my answer to you.

0:42How?

0:43I make decisions.

0:45And then I try to look at my calendar the week ahead and see if any decisions I made four weeks earlier that made me think this was a good use of time.

0:52Am I able to move something, cut something down?

0:54I'm extremely thoughtful about cutting times in meetings.

0:59So one of the things I think that really make me successful is understanding a seven-minute meeting is real and not just making it a 30-minute meeting.