Casey Neistat's Unrelenting Pursuit Of Interestingness

The Rich Roll Podcast

Rich Roll

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2022

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Here today fourth appearance on the podcast—(his last appearance was nearly eight years ago) is the godfather of YouTube, Casey Neistat. One of the biggest and most popular filmmakers on YouTube with over 12.5 million subscribers, Casey rose to fame through a daily vlog he commenced in March of 2015 when he began uploading a new video every single day, elevating the vlog format with next level storytelling & production value that consistently went viral & captured the fascination of millions. In addition to being a friend and occasional running partner, Casey is also an entrepreneur, an angel investor, a husband, a dad, and the director of a new documentary entitled 'Under The Influence', which chronicles the trajectory of a young YouTube creator named David Dobrik from massive popularity to disgrace and the ugly, broader truths of the creator economy that incentivized his demise. Today Casey and I dive deep into what it means to be an artist. We dive into the foundational principles of creativity, filmmaking, and storytelling. We talk about the difference between external versus internal validation and the rewards each brings. If you enjoy our conversation today, check out our earlier exchanges on episodes 73, 144, and 174. Watch: YouTube. Read: Show notes. Today's Sponsors: Athletic Greens: athleticgreens.com/richroll Calm: calm.com/richroll. Outerknown: outerknown.com Squarespace: Squarespace.com/RichRoll Whoop: WHOOP.com InsideTracker: insidetracker.com/RichRoll Enjoy! Peace + Plants, Rich

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0:31.2	All right, let's do the show.
0:36.8	It feels like influence is much, much more valued than creativity, and that sucks.
0:45.3	It's easier to follow trends to find success as long as your metric of success is clicks,
0:51.3	and views, and plays, and all those things which do have financial attachments to all of them,
0:56.6	than it is just trying to pursue what is creatively, socially meaningful.
1:01.5	Social media has shown us that in a more vivid way than any other creative endeavor.
1:06.5	The path to success as it's to find their money and fame has never been more vivid.
1:12.0	It does make me want to go back and purely focus on the creative and see that if I can use
1:17.2	my platform, which is still big, to find success, that will be very reassuring.
1:22.7	I still see myself as like a filmmaker who just really likes to use YouTube as a means
1:28.0	of distribution.
1:30.0	The Rich Roll Podcast.
1:43.2	Hey everybody, welcome to the podcast.
1:45.2	Today we're talking creativity, we're talking filmmaking, we're talking storytelling, we're
1:50.1	talking about the unhealthy incentives that are driving media, both social media, traditional
1:55.9	media, and the creator economy, all of which is headed, I think we can agree in a perilous
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