Why I'm Comfortable Giving People Advice

0:00This is the Gary B audio experience.

0:05Listen, how does one become an expert on a thing that is still growing and people still try to figure it out?

0:12I mean, social media.

0:13By being a practitioner.

0:15You know, there was a day when painting was new and the people that became good at it were the ones that were painting.

0:23It's amazing to me how many people have opinions about Facebook or Instagram or LinkedIn or making videos or doing this kind of podcast and getting people to listen to it.

0:32A whole lot of people with opinions who've never done it.

0:36And so I believe the great way to be great at anything is to be a practitioner.

0:41You know, people ask me all the time, I make the analogy, you know, you can read about push-ups, but if you want the results that push-ups give you, you have to do the push-ups.

0:52And I just think a lot of people with business, entrepreneurship, and specifically being a social media content creator or a modern media digital creator read a lot, talk a lot, pontificate a lot, and don't do a lot.