The Power of the Personal Project
The Chase Jarvis LIVE Show
Chase Jarvis
4.8 • 641 Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
I have been a long-time proponent of pursuing personal work. There's no better place to create a playground of ideas, explore curiosities, and give yourself permission to fail.
In this episode, we take a little dive into the power of personal projects for growth and opportunities, including:
- Building a portfolio that reflects the work you want to be hired to do
- Growth, learning, and creative breakthroughs
- Growing a community
- Using your commercial work to enable more personal projects
Enjoy!
Today's episode is brought to you by CreativeLive. CreativeLive is the world's largest hub for online creative education in photo/video, art/design, music/audio, craft/maker and the ability to make a living in any of those disciplines. They are high quality, highly curated classes taught by the world’s top experts -- Pulitzer, Oscar, Grammy Award winners, New York Times best selling authors and the best entrepreneurs of our times.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode is specifically directed at you folks out there who want to do your creative passion, your creative pursuit. |
| 0:14.7 | You want to do it professionally. |
| 0:17.0 | Now, I realize this is not going to be everyone. |
| 0:19.5 | But here's the thing. |
| 0:20.3 | If you do not want to do your creative passion and create a pursuit professionally, I still think there is a ton to learn about the approach required to create success in that field, even if you do not ever intend to make a dollar. And here's why. I always seek a balance |
| 0:42.8 | between the work that I do for others, for the market for what makes a dollar or puts some |
| 0:50.1 | food on my table or gives some fuel in my bank account to do other things. |
| 0:54.8 | I always seek to balance that kind of work with work that is deeply personal to me and |
| 1:01.6 | exploratory. And before I get into this, just a super quick word from Creative Live. And then |
| 1:08.4 | I'm back into this topic. And I want you to stay with me. Hey, oh, hey, new sponsor alert. So this episode of Chase Jar Creative Live, and then I'm back into this topic, and I want you to stay with me. |
| 1:11.9 | Hey, oh, hey, new sponsor alert. So this episode of Chase Jarvis Live is brought to you by |
| 1:16.0 | Creative Live. And you all know, yeah, of course, I am the founder of that company, but I got to |
| 1:22.0 | be straight up. This is unequivocally, no questions asked, the best place in the world for |
| 1:27.2 | creator and |
| 1:27.8 | entrepreneurial education I mean frankly nothing even comes close and it's the |
| 1:32.2 | only one that's focused specifically on photography design video art music |
| 1:38.3 | craft and maker and the ability to make a living and a life in all those disciplines |
| 1:43.6 | it's where the best teachers in the world that where Pulitzer Prize winners, New York Times bestsellers, |
| 1:48.5 | the best of the best go to teach. |
| 1:50.7 | So, of course, I'm biased, but I just encourage you to check it out because nothing else comes close. |
| 1:59.1 | And you will be on your way to join millions of other folks in our |
| 2:03.0 | creative community there learning from the world's top experts. Okay, that's it. That's my soapbox. |
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