Chase Jarvis: Acclaimed Photographer and CreativeLIVE Founder

Chase Jarvis:备受赞誉的摄影师和CreativeLive创始人

Good Life Project

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2016-01-25

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Imagine a career...no…Imagine a life where you travel the world earning your living by taking jaw-dropping photos of some of the most astounding athletes, action-sports, and breathtaking backdrops the planet has to offer. Sound too good to be true?—it’s not—this is the life of award-winning photographer Chase Jarvis...but it almost wasn’t, nor is it where he's resting. Chase started down the beaten path, a scholar-athlete, headed toward med-school. It wasn’t until after taking his MCAT and interviewing with several medical schools that Chase’s took an unexpected turn and walked away from it all. IMoved by the call of the camera his grandfather left him when he passed, Chase stepped out of the path he'd been expected to follow and stepped into a part of him that had laid buried. He claimed his inner-artist and storyteller, and starting shooting images of friends doing what they lit them up. And a lot of that included skateboarding and snowboarding. The result?—entirely self-taught, Chase built a life most people only dream about as one of the top action sports and travel photographers in the world, shooting campaigns for many of the biggest brands, and making films along the way. Still, he wasn't done. Over the years, an even deeper call emerged. To teach. To inspire others and to create a different legacy. So, he co-founded CreativeLIVE, which has now grown into a global online educational venture with millions of students learning both the craft and business of a wide array of creative professions. In today’s conversation, we explore how this visionary photographer, director, fine artist, and entrepreneur learned to find comfort in uncertainty and, through that comfort, defy the external pressures driving him towards a career he never wanted. We’ll discuss why we’re so often compelled to pursue validation from the world, and how that pursuit forcibly pushes us away from our natural, creative passions. And, we dive deep into creativity, mastery and so many of the stories we tell ourselves that stop us from pursuing and experiencing both. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • If you had a loving lens on yourself, how much more could you create?

  • And how could I bet you could do it with a lot less drama and pain and the power of positivity relative to that whipping voice, what would be possible?

  • Imagine spending pretty much your entire adult life traveling around the world and photographing some of the most incredible adventures, action, sports, locations, that you could ever imagine.

  • Well, that's what this week's guest, Chase Jarvis, spent the vast majority of his adult life doing until a couple years back.

  • He decided to make a pretty abrupt change.

  • Now, he still travels and he still shoots, but he became really focused on something much bigger, and that is the creative process.

  • That's the opportunity to tap into something profoundly creative and make something, not just make his own thing, but also turn around and teach other people how to find that in themselves.

  • So he teamed with some people, and he created a venture called Creative Live, which has now exploded into this huge global creative platform and community and online educational venture that's touched millions of lives.

  • In today's conversation, we sit down and we really trace some of the big moments of awakening and transformation in his journey.

  • We talk about his career in photography, where that came out of where he was born, and what his early influences were.

  • Really dive into this major pivot that he's made in sort of like, this new evolution of his life, and what he's really focused on, the power of creativity and storytelling and the ability to tap into possibility and then take things that are in your head and turn them into real powerful things in the world.

  • I'm Jonathan Fields.

  • This is good life project.

  • So we're hanging out right now in your hotel room, the Ace Hotel in beautiful New York City, my hometown.

  • You are off a plane from Paris and a couple of days on your way to LA, I guess.

  • And we are soon to have room service, so you guys will hear us chomping and drinking and doing all sorts of stuff when that arrives.

  • I was just thinking back on my way over to hang out with you when we first met, and it was.

  • I'm pretty sure it was that we were both doing a TEDx talk at Carnegie Mellon.

  • Something else popped into my mind.

  • I don't know if you know, maybe you know this, but the room that we did that talk in was the same lecture that Randy Pausch gave his famous last lecture in.