LeVar Burton: Hustle, Self Talk, and a little Perseverance

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Chase Jarvis

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4.8 • 641 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2016

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

LeVar Burton was cast in the groundbreaking role of Kunta Kinte in the landmark television series Roots, at age 19, landing him on the cover of Time Magazine. You will also know him as Geordi La Forge in the iconic “Star Trek: The Next Generation” television series and films, but it’s his role as host and executive producer of the PBS children series “Reading Rainbow” that he’s most proud of.

In this episode, we dive into LeVar's meteoric rise as a young actor to lessons learned of the last 40 years in the business for upcoming artists. We also get it into education, the revival of roots, and race relations in America. LeVar shares so many great lessons from his extensive career that reveals how we can all use self talk, hustle and perseverance to change the world.

Enjoy!

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0:00.0	Hello everybody, I am Chase Jarvis.
0:06.7	Welcome to another episode of the Chase Jarvis Live show here on Creative Live.
0:10.5	This is where I sit down with the world's top creatives, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders.
0:16.0	And I do everything in my power to unpack actionable, valuable insights aimed at helping you live your dreams
0:21.7	in your career, in hobby, and in your life. My guest today is Lavaar Burton. This was a spectacular
0:31.8	conversation. You know Lavaar because he was cast in the groundbreaking role of Kuntikinti in the landmark television
0:38.8	series Roots. I think it came out originally in 1977. He went on to have an amazing career,
0:45.4	but back to that Roots thing. He was 19 when that came out. Found himself on the cover of Time
0:50.5	Magazine, among other things. He's also Jordy in Star Trek, the next generation, which people love him there.
0:56.8	An incredible artist in so many ways.
1:00.0	And he is the host and executive producer of the PBS series Reading Rainbow.
1:05.9	The guy is all over the place.
1:07.6	We talked about so many things, you know, literacy and the foundation of reading being one of those things. We talked about, you know, what I go around saying all the time. Creativity is the new literacy. And we actually sort of compare those and how reading is such an amazing foundation for self-education. And obviously, I'm all about self-education. But we probe into all sorts
1:29.3	of other things as well. First of all, LeVar's meteoric rise at such a young age and now sort of
1:34.5	looking back, how much LeVar learned from that and how much we can learn from LeVar's trajectory.
1:40.5	Actually, why sort of early success and anything in sports and career and whatever might always not be great.
1:48.2	In fact, it can be dangerous.
1:50.0	Gosh, what else we talk about?
1:51.2	We talked about just a lot of advice for young creatives, young artists looking to break into not just acting, but really any industry.
1:59.1	We talk about hacking the education system, you know, things like Creative Live,
2:03.8	things like reading, and the fact that we can all sort of own that in this new era in which we live.
2:11.0	And we actually talked a fair bit about race, race relations, about his sort of African-American experience.
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