Name: Should I Follow My Passion or My Talent? (with Scott Galloway)
Uploaded: 2024-12-03T00:00:04.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Should I Follow My Passion or My Talent? (with Scott Galloway)' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-12-03. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Should I Follow My Passion or My Talent? (with Scott Galloway)' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-12-03. Transcript available.

why do you so let's I know you're a professor here at NYU and why do you talk
about I've heard
you talk about advising your students not to follow their passion but to follow
their talent
is that right yeah okay I think anyone who tells you to follow your passion is
already rich
I think this is your job I think your job is to find what you're really good at
okay because I
think a lot of times young men mistake their talent for their hobbies or
mistake their hobbies
for their passion okay they mistake their hobbies for their passion I wanted to
be a football player
when I was 17 and I wanted to be a pediatrician I mean what I found was I was
really good at
analytics and very few boys grew up thinking I'm really good with data and so
the majority of the
quote-unquote passion fields are really shitty industries because there's too
many people
going into them there's 180,000 people in the SAG-AFTRA union which is the
union representing
actors 83% of them last year didn't qualify for health insurance because they
didn't make over
$23,000 they're not even making any movies anymore try and be a DJ do you know
what percentage of high
school basketball players may get into the NBA I mean it's insane I don't know
yeah they're very few
the more romantic or sexy an industry is the lower the ROI on your effort this
is your job find
something you're good at instinctively you have an affinity for that you could
someday maybe in the
top 10% or the top 1% and here's the key part it has a 90 plus percent
employment rate because if
you're good I'm renovating a house right now and this guy comes in he's the
soapstone guy he knows
more about soapstone than anyone he's this Iraqi immigrant and he got really
into it and he was very
open with me he makes 1.8 million pounds a year he clears 800,000 pounds a year
right I don't think
he grew up as a child thinking I'm going to be the soapstone guy in Marlebone
London yeah that no
one grows up thinking I want to be the best tax attorney in the world the best
tax attorneys fly
private and have a larger selection set of mason they deserve and the guy
telling you at NYU to follow
your passion made his billions in iron ore smelting right yeah the the the
boring industries the boring
shit is where you can make a great deal of money yeah be a DJ on weekends be a
welder during the week
that's right find a job that you're good at you become great at that's got a 90
plus percent
employment rate if you're just good in that industry you're going to make it
and this is
what happens what does it mean the 90 plus before you I just want to make sure
that that's clear
that has a 90 percent what were you saying that part employment rate and what
does that mean when
you say that just tax law anyone with a degree and oh you're going to get a job
and at 90 chance
that's what you're saying employment rate okay got it employment rate and
basketball uh DJ art modeling sports
owning a club or restaurant I would bet the unemployment rate is 90 percent
yeah because
there's too many people pursuing too few jobs right so I don't want to crush
your dreams if you want
to be a DJ you want to be the next Lionel Messi just make sure you're getting
bright signals very early
that you're in the top one percent which is where you're going to need to be
right because you can
always at a certain point you have to play to the odds well this is what you
become passionate about
you're going to see this as you get older you become passionate about taking
care of your kids
you become passionate about taking care of your parents you become passionate
about going to the
Hotel du Cap or going to F1 in Austin I went to Wimbledon for the first time oh
yeah and I'd rather be
Roger Federer than me I'd rather be named all than me but I'd rather be me than
the number five seed in the
world yeah who's that I have no idea right so I'm saying all I know is the
number five seed is in the
0.0001 percent all I need to be is in the top 10 percent of my field and I can
buy my way into
Wimbledon right so find something you're great at and if you're great at it and
you can make money
at it you're going to have a great relationship with your wife and your kids
you're going to be
we live in a capitalist society right and that's not going to change right 100
no the America becomes
more like itself every day and that is it is a loving generous place if you
have money it's a rapacious
violent place if you don't have money and I'm not saying that's that's the way
it should be but that is
the way it is so your job as a young person what could I be great at that pays
it has a 90 plus
percent employment rate and this is where passion comes from the accoutrements
the camaraderie the
economic relevance the status of being great at something where you're making
good money that will
make you passionate about that thing mastery artisanship being a ninja-like
warrior and anything
will make you passionate about that thing regardless of how boring it may sound
when you're nine
years old yeah it's funny the better I've become at some things the more I like
them is that what
you're saying 100% yeah