How To Stop Waiting And Start Doing w/ Roman Mars
The Chase Jarvis LIVE Show
Chase Jarvis
4.8 • 641 Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2017
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Roman Mars is the host of the wildly popular design podcast “99% Invisible” and has been called “the Ira Glass of design.” With several hundred episodes in the can over its six years in existence, it’s covered everything from “Unsung Icons of Soviet Design” to Love Park’s place in skateboarding history to DIY space suits, all through the same lens of - as he says - “telling stories that make you notice and appreciate the world in a different way,” drawing attention to the world of design around us that is 99% invisible (hence the title of the show). He’s also the creator of the world’s most popular design-focused TED Talk and co-founder of the podcast collective Radiotopia.
Today on the podcast,
* He says that “lack of success gives you a certain amount of freedom” - I love this because I see so many people stressing about the fact that they aren’t a household name yet - embrace it! This is your chance to try crazy, cool stuff - and if you mess it up then it doesn’t matter because nobody’s watching.
* We get into something I talked about recently on this show which is finding your personal style - he has a great way of putting it: try on as many things as possible until you find your voice.
* He gets into what he’s learned as the show has scaled and relies not just on him but on a team. This is tough for many creators who are super comfortable doing things alone and have to make a lot of adjustments once it becomes a team effort.
Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of the Chase Jarvis Live show here on Creative Live. |
| 0:09.4 | You know this show. |
| 0:10.6 | This show is where I sit down with the world's top creatives, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders. |
| 0:15.6 | And do my very best to unpack actionable and valuable insights with the goal of helping you live your dreams, |
| 0:22.3 | whether that's in career and hobby or in life. |
| 0:26.0 | My guest today is the Roman Mars. |
| 0:30.3 | Now, if you like podcasts, and I trust you do because you're listening to this one, |
| 0:34.9 | then you know Roman. |
| 0:36.3 | He is the host of the |
| 0:38.0 | wildly popular design podcast called 99% Invisible. He is known as the quote, |
| 0:45.3 | Ira Glass of Design. And God, if you, well, let's just talk for a second. I think my radio |
| 0:49.9 | face, first of all, I have a face for radio, but my radio voice, I give it a sort of a B. |
| 0:55.6 | Roman Mars' radio voice is a triple plus plus plus. |
| 1:01.1 | His show, I think they've got about hundreds of episodes at the can more than six years, |
| 1:06.5 | covers everything from the unsung icons of Soviet design to skateboarding DIY culture to space suits, |
| 1:14.9 | all through the same lens, as he says. I'm going to use his words here, of telling stories |
| 1:20.8 | that make you notice and appreciate the world in a new and different way. You've heard me talk |
| 1:26.2 | at length about the world is designed. Everything, |
| 1:29.2 | the chair that you're sitting in, the headphones you're listening to this on were all designed by |
| 1:35.0 | someone that had an intention in mind. And his podcast does a remarkable job of reminding us that |
| 1:41.6 | the world that you live in is designed probably by somebody no smarter |
| 1:45.8 | more talented than you. He is also a creator of the world's most popular design-focused TED Talk. |
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