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Twelve and a Half Leveraging the Emotional Ingredients Necessary for Business Success

Gary Vaynerchuk

USA Today For decades, leaders have relied on “hard” skills to make smart decisions, while dismissing the importance of emotional intelligence. Soft skills like self-awareness and curiosity aren’t quantifiable; they can’t be measured on a spreadsheet and aren’t taught in B-schools or emphasized in...

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On Purpose with Jay Shetty

Gary Vaynerchuk reflected on his previous book, '12 and a Half Ingredients', discussing his realization that it's not solely about empathy or ambition, but a combination of several factors, which he applied to an interaction with his father.

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But my last book, 12 and a half, Ingredients...

— Episode: Gary Vee ON: Living Without Judgment & H...

Episode: Gary Vee ON: Living Without Judgment & How to Stop...

Gary Vaynerchuk reflected on his previous book, '12 and a Half Ingredients', discussing his realization that it's not solely about empathy or ambition, but a combination of several factors, which he applied to an interaction with his father.

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But my last book, 12 and a half, Ingredients...

What I realized when I wrote it was, oh, it's not just empathy. Oh, it's not just ambition.

The Daily Stoic

It was described as a great book about stoicism, soft skills, and self-improvement. Signed copies of some of the author's other books were available for purchase.

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His new book, 12 and a half is great.

— Episode: Gary Vaynerchuk, David Rubenstein, Ali A...

Episode: Gary Vaynerchuk, David Rubenstein, Ali Abdaal, Emi...

It was described as a great book about stoicism, soft skills, and self-improvement. Signed copies of some of the author's other books were available for purchase.

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His new book, 12 and a half is great.

Episode: Gary Vaynerchuk on Stoicism, Soft Skills, and Beco...

It was described as a monster hit that sold 1.2 million copies in pre-orders. The book focuses on emotional ingredients for business success, including gratitude, self-awareness, and kindness.

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It's called 12 and a half, leveraging the emotional ingredients necessary for business success.

He talks about gratitude, self-awareness, accountability, optimism, empathy, kindness, tenacity, curiosity, patience, conviction, humility, ambition.

And then something he's struggling with the most, kind, kinder. How do you be honest without hurting people? How do you use your reluctance to hurt people, not hold you back from speaking the truth?

It's a fascinating book.

He signed some copies of his other books while he was at the Painted Port, which we have for sale at thepaintedport.com. We've got signed copies of Crush It, the Thank You Economy and his other books as well.

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