Gregory Heisler on Embracing Your Uniqueness
The Chase Jarvis LIVE Show
Chase Jarvis
4.8 • 641 Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2018
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
You know Gregory Heisler, or at the very least, you've seen his work. Gregory is a prolific photographer best known for his 70 cover portraits for TIME Magazine and has graced the pages of Life, Esquire, Fortune, GQ, Sports Illustrated, ESPN, and The New York Times Magazine.
We recently had the pleasure of hosting Gregory in our CreativeLive studios to present his talk on embracing one’s own uniqueness. Now, I attend a lot of keynotes, speeches, and presentations. Not often do I stand in the audience yelling “PREACH!” like I was during Gregory’s presentation. His thoughts on prioritizing the expression of your own voice, vision and style over technique is spot on and follows the career path of so many professional and prolific creators in my circle. Listen in, take heed, and let me know what you think. If you'd like to see the video version of this talk, you can watch it for FREE here: https://cr8.lv/2v39iS2
A few topics from this episode,
* Making what you can’t help but make is how you find your own unique style and it helps you get paid for your art. It’ll be easy because you can’t help but make it anyways, it’ll be your best work because it’s what comes naturally to you, and people will hire you to make more of what you can’t help but make anyways.
* The three main components of making art are vision, technique, and style. Too many of us get hung up on the technique, but vision and style is what differentiates you from the rest of the pack. Lean into your own vision and develop confidence in your style.
* If you want to be a professional creative, you’ve got to get comfortable being uncomfortable. Making art is an uncertain path and there will be days where you may not be able to pay the rent or even make a good photograph, but trust and own the process.
Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | That's my |
| 0:02.0 | That's my terrible rendition of the music. |
| 0:10.0 | Hey, all, what's up? It's your friend Chase. |
| 0:13.0 | Welcome to another episode of the show. |
| 0:16.0 | That's right, the Chase Starves Live show here on Creative Live. |
| 0:18.0 | I love this day. |
| 0:20.0 | And because I get to record |
| 0:22.5 | my day is, today's Monday, and you're going to get this, it drops on when, I don't know when |
| 0:26.4 | you're going to get this, but it drops on Wednesday. So that's one of the reasons of many that I |
| 0:30.7 | love Mondays. But that being said, we have a really badass show in store of you today. My guest is Gregory Heisler. If you are a |
| 0:41.3 | photographer, you fancy yourself as one and you know much about photography, you will definitely |
| 0:46.5 | know Gregory's name. If you're not a photographer, fear not. This is still very, very much |
| 0:53.8 | for you. And I would say whether you think you know |
| 0:56.6 | his work or not, you do because he is renowned for shooting more than 70. That's right, |
| 1:02.0 | seven zero cover portraits for Time magazine. All those like person of the year and this. Yeah, |
| 1:09.2 | that's him. Legend. |
| 1:11.8 | So, and not only do you know him or his work, and whether you are or are not a photographer, |
| 1:17.0 | this episode is loaded with the good stuff because you've heard me preach before how being |
| 1:23.4 | different, not just better is the key to success, that finding your own voice is the most |
| 1:29.8 | important thing that you can do on your journey outside of your own health and wellness. |
| 1:36.0 | Finding your voice, what do you want to say, how do you want to say it, where do you want |
| 1:39.5 | to say it, and what is the good stuff? |
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