Never Been Better - Akira the Don, Gary Vaynerchuk

You know, I mean, of course we’ve gotten soft

As a culture in the US

Because the US has had an incredible 200-year run

Like, this is just what happens

And that’s a great thing

That means there’s been enormous amounts of prosperity

But let’s not be naive

I mean, people literally complain

When somebody gives them the wrong

Amount of, like, extra cream in a Starbucks $ 6 coffee

My lack of interesting complaining is so high

And when I watch, what people complain about

It breaks my heart

Because they completely lack perspective

I genuinely believe my happiness and optimism

Comes from my perspective

Even in political unrest times like right now

A lot of people are very bent out of shape

But the reality is that

It’s just never been better

It’s just never been better

To be a human being

It’s just never been better

That’s just the truth, that’s just data, that’s

That’s reality, it’s just never been better

To be a human being

It’s just never been better

That’s just the truth, that’s just data, that’s

That’s reality

It’s just an incredible time

And I think the way people look at the world right now

Is actually the quickest tell to who they are

If you think it sucks or it’s bad

You have losing pessimistic DNA

And if you think it’s awesome and phenomenal

You have optimistic winning DNA

And I believe that to be true

That’s where we’re at

We’re beating ourselves up

Like, everybody sucks

At something

Right?

Like, we all have shortcomings

And we all have strengths

And for me it’s like

Why don’t we just audit that

Like, why don’t you look at it that way

And be like, all right, well, I’m good at this

But I’m not good at that

And then I only focus what I’m good at, right

Like, I don’t dwell that I can’t fix shit around the house

I call somebody to fix it

Like, I’m not like, I’m not a man

I don’t give a fuck

I don’t get it

I also think it’s awesome that I’m so emotionally stable

And I’m the emotional backbone of everybody

Is that what a dude’s supposed to do?

Like, the clichés, these stereotypes are so silly

I don’t judge myself

I’m fully in love with myself

It’s just never been better

To be a human being

It’s just never been better

That’s just the truth, that’s just data, that’s

That’s reality

It’s just never been better

To be a human being

It’s just never been better

That’s just the truth, that’s just data, that’s

That’s reality

And I’m also fully in love with everybody else too

It goes both ways

I tell people to buy into me

That work for me

It’s 'cause I buy into them first

I don’t need anybody to gain trust with me

It’s there

I believe the human race is so grossly underrated

We are good

Of course, we have some bad

There’s fucking seven billion of us

But, like, when you look at our net score, it’s bonkers shit

Do you know how much damage we can be doing to each other

On an hourly basis and we don’t

We’re still here

And we won

We’re the alpha being

And we’ve figured out how to stay together

This is insane when you think about it

And yet everybody wants to dwell

On like, somebody said something mean

It’s just never been better

To be a human being

It’s just never been better

That’s just the truth, that’s just data, that’s

That’s reality

It’s just never been better

To be a human being

It’s just never been better

That’s just the truth, that’s just data, that’s

That’s reality