Debbie Millman: If not now, when?
The Chase Jarvis LIVE Show
Chase Jarvis
4.8 • 641 Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2017
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Debbie Millman is currently the Editorial and Creative Director of Print Magazine, but she has an insane track record going back decades: she’s the author of 6 books including “How To Think Like A Great Graphic Designer,” a prolific design writer in outlets like NYT, Fast Company, and Design Observer, chairs the Masters In Branding program at SVA (co-founded with Steven Heller), and hosts a long running podcast called “design matters” which has done 265 episodes over 10 years with legends and icons like Michael Beirut, Stephen Heller, Chip Kidd, Massimo Vignelli, Isaac Mizrahi and Malcolm Gladwell.
Today on the podcast,
* She says that “confidence is overrated.” This is something I know a lot of you struggle with and I love how she talks about this. Confidence is created by repeatedly doing something, and if you’ve never done something before how could you have confidence? Confidence - in her view - is the easy part. It’s finding the courage to do the thing when you DON’T have confidence that is the gamechanger.
* The importance of teaching: why Milton Glaser said it’s the most important thing he ever did and why Debbie has always made it a big focus in her own career-- because as she says, when she teaches, the students teach HER
* Why even hyper-achieving legends struggle with feelings of unworthiness and what the levers are for coping with it. This is a nearly universal thing that’s very rarely talked about, and it’s super important that you put your own mechanism in place to keep it from sabotaging your success.
Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone, how's it going? |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Chase Jarvis. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome to another episode of the Chase Jarvis live show here on Creative Live. |
| 0:11.0 | This show is where I sit down with the world's top creatives, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders, |
| 0:16.0 | and unpack actionable and valuable insights with the goal, the goal of helping you live your dreams in career, |
| 0:22.4 | in hobby and in life. |
| 0:24.7 | My guest today is the inimitable Debbie Millman. |
| 0:30.4 | Debbie has become a dear friend over the past. |
| 0:33.3 | Oh gosh, probably 18 months, 24 months? Incredible human. |
| 0:38.7 | She is the editorial and creative director of print magazine, |
| 0:42.3 | but she has maybe even more importantly, |
| 0:45.2 | an insane track record going back decades in the field of design. |
| 0:51.3 | She's the author of six books, including one. It's got a very straightforward title, |
| 0:57.0 | but it is renowned, How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer. She's also a really prolific |
| 1:04.6 | design writer for The New York Times, for Fast Company, Design Observer. She chairs the Masters |
| 1:10.5 | in Branding Program at SVA, and she co-founded that with Stephen |
| 1:15.8 | Heller, another legend in the design world in his own right. |
| 1:18.8 | And she hosts the top design podcast on iTunes, long-running podcast called Design Matters. |
| 1:26.1 | She's done over 250 episodes over like a 10-year window. |
| 1:31.2 | Legends in the design world on that show, Michael Beirut, Stephen Heller, Chip Kid, Massimo |
| 1:37.8 | Vigneli, Malcolm Gladwell, etc., you get the picture. That's just the biggest names, |
| 1:42.9 | and those are some of the biggest headlines. What I love about Debbie in addition to everything I've mentioned so far is that |
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