Crush It! Great Book…. One Problem
Ok so this one was supposed to be an audio blog to switch it up but it turns out that the free wordpress account wont allow for plugins which are required to post audio. Anyways I guess I’ll have to do this the old fashion way until I get my own domain (which is coming soon, more details later). I decided to do a rebuttal to the book Crush It! by Gary Vaynerchuck for this post so I will try to recount what was on the audio file for you.
Although I am very optimistic and excited after reading Crush It! and although I agree with Gary on %90 of what he says, I do have some issues. Throughout the book Gary emphasizes the amount of hard work that you will have to put in in-order to cash in on your passion and that is very very true. A lot of long hard hours will go into promoting yourself and coming out on top. But he basically says that you will have no time or wanting to do anything other than your passion, you wont play the Wii, have time for hockey or much of anything else. You’ll have a bit of time to catch up with your significant other, play with the kid and that’s about it. This is where I disagree, I believe that you should make an effort to put aside a bit of time every week to do other things that interest you that are not your passion. I love Hockey and I would make sure to make a little bit of time here or there (probably often) to watch or even better play! I believe that staying well rounded will help you to grow and not become stagnant. Gary’s “DNA” is such that he probably doesn’t need that because he is soooo driven and focused but most are not like that. Keep time for other things and you will be more focused when you come back to doing your passion!
Just my opinion though…
i would not have believed this had been handy some years in the past yet somehow it is crazy the way time shifts the method by which you see unusual ideas, thank you with regard to the article it is pleasurable to read something sensible occasionally instead of the normal rubbish mascarading as blogs on the internet, i’m off to have fun with a few hands of facebook poker, take care