Life Hacks From The King of Introverts + 7 Business Ideas | ft. Nick Gray

**Sam Parr** (0:00)
All right, Nick, are you ready?

**Nick Gray** (0:01)
Well, I'm late because I had to go to Party City.

**Shaan Puri** (0:04)
You are Party City, dude. You're the human Party City.

**Nick Gray** (0:07)
No, but the funny thing is, I went out there because I wanted to get some cool stuff for you guys. For Sam, I got a hot dog hat thing. Sam likes hot dogs. For Sean, I got the big basketball, because Sean loves basketball. I got these balloons. As I'm leaving, this lady sees me with the balloons and the basketball. She's like, oh, are you planning a birthday for your son? I was like, first, that's sexist, and second, no, I'm going on a podcast.

**Sam Parr** (0:55)
Let's travel. Let me introduce Nick and I'll introduce him with a little bit of a story. I don't remember exactly how we came into contact with each other. But basically, I was in New York maybe eight years ago. Somehow, Nick contacts me and he goes, hey, do you want to go to Washington Square Park and play Frisbee? I was like, I guess, yeah, okay. So Sarah and I go and we meet him at Washington Square Park. He goes, yeah, let's just walk. I'll give you guys a tour. So he gives us a tour. He goes, this is the guy that's always here selling weed. Hey, weed guy, how are you? This is my friend, Sam, it's Sarah. Then he's like, these are the people who are always tightroping, hey, tightrope people. Then we go in and we sit down and he brings out a blanket. He goes, all right, now it's time to play Frisbee. Nick is just a crazy person.
You'll go out to dinner with him and he'll be like, all right, for the next five minutes, I want to talk about my dating life. Then from minutes 7 to 13, we're going to talk about your work. Then from 13 to 27, we want to talk about philosophy on life.

**Shaan Puri** (1:52)
Nick, do you actually do this? Do you show up to lunches like this?

**Sam Parr** (1:56)
With agendas.

**Nick Gray** (1:57)
A hundred percent with agendas and sometimes even my own keynote presentations.

**Shaan Puri** (2:04)
Hold on.

**Sam Parr** (2:05)
I had to give this quick summary. So Nick's summary is basically he made money. Nick started a business. He sold it. He made money. He put all of his money in Tesla stock and got incredibly wealthy. And now he is single in Austin and he just lives life to have fun. And he does crazy stuff. Like he just recently did a blind date to Tokyo. Or he just wrote a book on having a cocktail party because that's what he cares about. And he just does everything to...

**Nick Gray** (2:34)
That's fun.

**Sam Parr** (2:35)
Is that right, Nick?

**Nick Gray** (2:36)
Yeah, that is directionally correct. I love to have fun. And I didn't put all my money into Tesla. And but yes, I did make a lot of money a couple of times in my life. And now we get to have fun. And I get to I think I'm like the end game that a lot of people are thinking about how to get to. And they want to make a business and they want to be successful. But for what? And so there's a lot of talk about when is enough. And I think I found enough and this is what happens when you get there.

**Sam Parr** (3:08)
All right, everyone, a quick break. When you're starting a company, you basically duct tape together a ton of different pieces of software and different platforms. And it's basically impossible to stay on top of everything. And a ton of stuff breaks and it ruins things that you forgot that you even duct tape together. And that's why I use HubSpot for all of my projects, because it does it all. So I don't actually have to use any duct tape, which means it doesn't break. I can build my website on HubSpot. I can write my blog posts on HubSpot. I can collect leads on HubSpot. And then my salespeople can put those leads into the CRM and they can track those leads and build relationships with them. And it just makes life much easier. So if you're interested and want to say goodbye to the duct tape, trust me, you guys have to check it out. hubspot.com. It's free to get started. Now back to the pod.

**Shaan Puri** (3:54)
How did you figure that out? Because that is something that not a lot of people have been able to figure out. So how did you figure out what's enough for you? And how did you actually execute that? How did you figure out what you wanted? What was enough? And then do it.