Social media and self-presentation

Vaynerchuk recommends that people build confidence by posting a video listing what they are bad at.

“I believe the number one thing that most people watching or listening to this podcast should do is make a video and tell the world what they suck at”

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Vaynerchuk argues that social media algorithms reflect users' own choices rather than shaping them.

“My friends, the algorithm did not change you. The algorithm exposed you”

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Kelly claims virality is predictable and that his show gets over 100 million views a month, with the hook as the key.

“But you can actually predict going viral. So we get over 100 million views a month, every single month, consistently”

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Kelly says he neither responds to nor blocks haters because their negative comments help his content go viral.

“No, because it helps the algorithm when they hate”

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Kiser argues that social media content never represents a person's full reality because it is always curated.

“Social media shouldn't be anyone's representation of anything because at the end of the day, it's always, even if you share the good, the bad, the hard, it's what you're choosing to share”

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Kiser says she no longer shares her younger son or images of Trigg online.

“I don't share my younger son anymore. I have a strict boundary of I don't share Trig anymore”

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Saban says social media made players' motivation externally driven by others' opinions rather than internal.

“I think what social media has done is created an external factor that impacts a lot of people. In other words, what other people say about me is meaningful”

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Sacks says the only way to grow wealth is to spend less than you earn and invest the difference.

“the only way that you grow wealth is to spend less than you make and to invest that difference”

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Sulek argues the most successful creators document what they would be doing anyway rather than forcing relatability.

“the guys who end up doing the best are the ones where what they're doing is just what they would be doing anyway”

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Williamson advises creators to be careful about personal disclosure because it is hard to undo.

“when you open the door to that part of your life it's very hard to close it”

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Haas-Sapp attributes her growth from under 10,000 to nearly 600,000 Instagram followers to genuine expertise rather than posting tactics.

“this time last year I had less than 10,000 followers and now I'm almost at 600,000 on Instagram”

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Rogan argues that people with hater tendencies do not succeed and should treat others' success as inspiration.

“I know so many dudes who have like hater tendencies and they never excel”

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Siddiq argues that inflated claims and social media pressure have caused depression among comedians.

“Me talking about how this business of people inflating things has caused depression in comics”

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Urquhart recommended that listeners take breaks from social media, saying she once took about a year off.

“taking social media breaks is so healthy. Yeah. I really encourage everybody to do it if they can”

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Conti says the modern world offers too much connectedness and too little aloneness, pushing people to rely on external cues for preferences.

“where the modern world has gone is it offers us too much the opposite, where there's not enough aloneness”

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