Best of: Born to Be An Artist with James Victore
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2019
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Unmistakable Creative, artist and designer James Victore shares his personal journey, what’s required to succeed in a creative career, and uncovering the defining ethos of our lives.
James Victore runs an independent design studio hell-bent on world domination. He is an author, designer, filmmaker and firestarter. James has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and is represented in the permanent collections of museums around the globe. He is the host of Burning Questions. He also hosts a dinner series that consists of four days and nights that are chock-full of creation, communion, deep thought, and play. It’s an intense and intimate mastery program for conscious creatives who are ready to see and be seen.
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| 0:00.0 | People want people will follow |
| 0:05.3 | People will follow an authentic voice |
| 0:07.9 | You know if even if you're selling shit |
| 0:11.1 | People will follow you you You know, my wife Laura pointed out the other day Patagonia did a full-page ad for one of their |
| 0:19.3 | jackets and she said, she said, they gave, they said don't buy this coat and they gave all the reasons and they gave like how |
| 0:28.6 | They know how much things cost and what the labor was and blah blah the freaking coat sold like hot cakes. |
| 0:35.0 | You know, they were being completely honest. They said don't buy this coat and we loved it because they were being honest. |
| 0:42.0 | You know, even in marketing average... and we loved it because they were being honest. |
| 0:43.0 | You know, even in marketing and advertising, it works. |
| 0:46.0 | And I don't mean like it works as in like, hey, that's a good trick. |
| 0:50.0 | But people want to follow an authentic true voice they want they don't they don't they don't |
| 0:56.7 | want you to be aloof and untouchable they want to know that you know that you're a human being. This is |
| 1:05.9 | important because because quite frankly there aren't enough human beings out |
| 1:10.4 | there or enough people being that completely honest. |
| 1:14.2 | It's powerful and moving. |
| 1:16.5 | I'm Sreeney Rao and this is the Unmistakable creative podcast where you get a window into the stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds who started movements, built thriving businesses, written best selling books and created insanely interesting art. |
| 1:33.1 | For more, check out our 500 episode archive at unmistakable Creative.com. This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats, so you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's. |
| 1:59.0 | Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply, check the Uber app. |
| 2:03.0 | If you could go back in time, |
| 2:05.0 | if you could go back in time, |
| 2:08.0 | if you could go back in time, if you could go back in time, |
| 2:10.0 | would you save the world or yourself? |
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