Real Artists Don't Starve /w Jeff Goins
The Chase Jarvis LIVE Show
Chase Jarvis
4.8 • 641 Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2017
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Jeff, like many of us, has had a winding path to his art. He’s a best-selling author of FIVE books including The Art of Work and his latest, Real Artists Don’t Starve. As a youth, he never claimed being a writer, but it was always something that lingered in the back of his mind. From joining a band to lingering at a comfortable job, he was just waiting for his mid-life crisis to push him into gear and start taking action.
Our conversation is chock full of actionable, tangible, you-can-and-should-do-them nuggets about how to go from starving to thriving as an artist. Perhaps the biggest nugget revolves around something I’ve been suggesting to you for years- don’t quit your day job while pursuing your side hustle. Keep your side hustle where it belongs, on the side, until it has enough traction to support you.
Today on the podcast,
- We go back into Jeff’s journey and unpack the curiosity, intuition, soul-searching, and grit to travel a winding road to his calling. There is no school or method to finding out who we are. Jeff drops some valuable tactical gems we can all use to find out way.
- Jeff’s curiosity lead him to discover more stories of artists and entrepreneurs. What he heard was “I can’t do that, because there’s no money in that”. We talk a lot about the idea of a starving artist explore what has enabled artists who are killing it to overcome that mindset.
- There’s no such thing as a solitary genius. We talk about how to use community and network to build collaborative partnerships that elevates your work.
Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, how's going? It's Chase. It's time for another episode of the Chase |
| 0:08.2 | drive us live show. It's Wednesday. That means a new episode drops. |
| 0:12.4 | Anyway, it's my job to welcome you here to that episode of the show. You're on Creative Live. |
| 0:16.8 | This show, you know, it's where I sit down with the world's top most awesome people, |
| 0:20.3 | top creators, entrepreneurs, thought leaders, and I do everything I can to unpack their brains for you. |
| 0:25.5 | And I would be lying if I didn't say it was for me too. |
| 0:27.5 | I get a lot of juice from these conversations. |
| 0:31.0 | And today's show is no exception. |
| 0:33.8 | My guest is Jeff Goins. |
| 0:36.5 | And right now, if you don't know who Jeff is, I want you to |
| 0:39.0 | pay close attention because he just dropped the book called Real Artists Don't Starve. And if that |
| 0:46.1 | has anything to do with you and your desires, your journey, you're going to want to pay attention. |
| 0:51.3 | He is, I think he's his fifth book. One's before this, |
| 0:56.0 | actually the one that caught my eye the most before this that I had previously digested is the |
| 1:01.6 | art of work, which talks about how we find the things that we're supposed to be doing in this world. |
| 1:06.0 | But where real artists don't starve goes is exactly where you think it would go. It helps us understand |
| 1:12.2 | the value of our work as creators and as entrepreneurs. And one of the things I love is Jeff's |
| 1:17.9 | own story is really well embedded in this book about how, you know, he really never thought of |
| 1:23.2 | himself as a writer. He wandered in the wilderness. You know, he was in bands. And at some point, |
| 1:27.3 | he realized that, wait a minute, what I need to do in order to be writers, call myself a writer. He wandered in the wilderness. He was in bands. And at some point, he realized that, |
| 1:27.8 | wait a minute, what I need to do in order to be a writer is call myself a writer and start |
| 1:31.7 | writing. So, you know, which is so relevant, I think, you know, as I've talked to hundreds of |
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