I was blessed to be on a Zoom call yesterday with serial entrepreneur, author, and speaker, Gary Vaynerchuck. This was not a one on one conversation; there were about 650 of my fellow EO members in attendance. That said, Gary stayed true to his core message, the same one I’ve heard him preach on YouTube and every other social media platform. “Social Media is still the next big thing and the cell phone is going to turn television into the radio.” While I agree with the projection, this was not the real value from yesterday’s call. I was delightfully surprised when about 10 minutes in, he stopped speaking and hit us with an amazing 45 minute Q&A session!
Some people speak to think and others think to speak. I think Gary V is the former. This is a good thing, as it is easier to glean information about how he arrives at conclusions. Really successful people leave clues when they answer off the cuff questions. Yesterday, I could see he was a master of something of which most people are incapable, holding conflicting ideas.
Genuinely holding two conflicting ideas simultaneously is a super-power leaders need in their mental arsenal. The internal conflict of opposing ideas generates energy, new ideas, and solutions. Instead of arguing at the speed of analog (speech/hearing), you can reason through problems at the speed of light.