Corey Rich: Good Enough is Never Good Enough
The Chase Jarvis LIVE Show
Chase Jarvis
4.8 • 641 Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2020
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
Corey Rich is a director, writer, and one of the top action sports photographers of our time. He has built a life and a career around his passions for travel and adventure by documenting some of the world’s greatest athletes in extreme locations spanning the globe. From alpine climbing in Pakistan’s Karakoram Mountains to ultramarathon racing in the Sahara Desert of Morocco, freight-train hopping in the American West, underwater cave exploration in the Yucatan and snowboarding in Papua New Guinea - if you're an outdoor adventure lover, you’ve likely seen his work gracing the pages of your favorite magazines and video screens.
Corey is a long-time friend and a master storyteller, so when he released his latest book, Stories Behind the Images, I couldn’t wait to have him on the show. In this episode, Corey takes us on a journey behind the scenes of his life and career.
We get into:
- Doing what you love. The process of chasing the things we know we’re supposed to be doing in our heart.
- Sacrifice. I don’t know a single person at the top of their game who hasn’t sacrificed something to be where they are today. Corey reflects on what what he’s sacrificed over the years and how he weighs those decisions
- Striving for great. Corey describes work as being mediocre, good, or great. While to be consistently good will likely make you a professional, striving for great is what will separate you from the rest.
Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | So in a world where we are obsessed with understanding a process behind something, |
| 0:13.4 | with going behind the scenes and seeing the stuff behind the stuff, around the stuff, |
| 0:19.6 | next to the stuff, adjacent to the stuff, as much as we |
| 0:22.9 | value the stuff. |
| 0:24.7 | In that world, you got to know that the book called Stories Behind the Images, when it's by |
| 0:32.7 | a dear friend and one of the top action sports photographers of our time named Corey Rich. |
| 0:38.4 | You got to know that when he comes up with a book like that, that it's going to be worth |
| 0:42.0 | your time and attention. |
| 0:43.3 | And in this episode, that's right. |
| 0:45.3 | We have Mr. Corey Rich on the show today, longtime friend. |
| 0:49.5 | We came up together in action sports photography over the past couple of decades, I'll say. And in this |
| 0:58.4 | episode, we uncover the process of writing the book. And more importantly, Corey's process for |
| 1:05.7 | life, for photography, for creativity, and for making the living and the life that he has today, |
| 1:10.6 | which is one he has, |
| 1:12.1 | in his own words, designed. It's not something that just happened. He tells a great story at the |
| 1:18.0 | beginning of our conversation about living out of his car for the first six months of his |
| 1:24.2 | photography career to figure it all out. And there's so much embedded in that |
| 1:27.9 | story beyond just living in your car and just figuring it out. It's a story about life and about |
| 1:33.0 | chasing things that we know we're supposed to be doing in our heart. In this episode, |
| 1:38.0 | not only do we cover stuff like that, but we go deep into sacrifice. I think we all think that the things that happen in the lives |
| 1:47.9 | of others, they just happen. But we know in this episode, and from others, this is a question I'm |
| 1:53.0 | pressing a lot more of my guests for these days, is like, what's the sacrifice? What did you |
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