10 Things Every Creative Must Learn

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Chase Jarvis

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🗓️ 23 October 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, I’m unpacking “10 Things Every Creator Should Know.” This is a dive into the hard-earned truths that can make or break your creative journey. We’re talking about the real stuff, the lessons that come from the trenches of creativity and entrepreneurship.

We delve into why clients can’t always tell you what they need and why aiming for ‘different’ rather than ‘better’ can set you on a path to true innovation. Discover why embracing big challenges leads to your best work, and why simplicity is your best friend in a world cluttered with complexity. Learn the art of bouncing back from mistakes with grace and speed, and understand why value should be your north star, not price.

Some topics we get into:

Rethinking Expertise: Unpacking why the true expert in your creative journey is you, and how external advice should serve as a guide, not a gospel.
Client Collaboration: Shifting the narrative on client interactions, emphasizing the importance of innovation over simply meeting expressed needs.
Innovation Over Imitation: Encouraging a mindset that seeks out unique solutions and perspectives, rather than settling for incremental improvements.
Embracing Challenge: Exploring how stepping out of your comfort zone and tackling bigger challenges can lead to unprecedented growth and creativity.
Cultivating Taste: Strategies on how to develop a strong aesthetic sensibility and why it’s crucial in setting your work apart.

Enjoy!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and good day. It's your friend Chase. I want to welcome you to another episode.
0:08.0	The Chase Jarvis Live show here, a micro show today, and specifically diving into 10 things that I've learned the hard way that every creator, every photographer, designer, entrepreneur, every creative person should know.
0:22.0	Ten things. Thing one, experts are not the answer. All of the blogs, the teachers, mentors, all the seminars, the online courses that you watch, they aren't the answer. They're not there to tell you exactly what you need to know. And we lose this. We lose perspective on this all
0:39.8	the time. If these resources are good, then they actually are there to give you ideas, guidelines,
0:46.1	some bumpers, maybe some rules to learn and then subsequently break. This isn't about the expert.
0:52.5	This isn't about taking exactly what one artist or one
0:57.7	instructor or one mentor did and apply it exactly to your life. It's not about the expert. It's
1:03.6	about you in any creative pursuit, especially what's going on inside of you. That's where
1:10.7	the answers can be found.
1:12.5	So I have a little phrase, you should hear what experts say, but don't always listen to them.
1:18.6	That's thing one.
1:19.3	Thing two, clients can't tell you what they need.
1:22.4	Now, this is going to be an affront to some people who are developing products for, you know, for their
1:29.9	company. They're building digital assets, say, and you've heard lots of times, go talk to clients,
1:35.0	find out what they need. But true innovators, true artists can take that information and then
1:42.2	actually decide to do something different.
1:45.0	When you think about it, clients, whether you're in the service business or in case you're building a product like I shared,
1:51.0	they hire you or they buy your product because they have a problem and you have a solution or they're coming to you if you're a service provider to solve this problem for them.
2:00.0	They may need some great visual representation of something if you're a service provider, to solve this problem for them. They may need some great
2:01.7	visual representation of something if you're a photographer. They need a solution to a particular
2:06.9	digital problem if they're building something and you've got a product to solve the challenges
2:13.7	that they're up against. Mostly clients think that they know the best way to solve a
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