Three Cornerstones for Success
The Chase Jarvis LIVE Show
Chase Jarvis
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🗓️ 17 August 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
If you turn back the clock a couple decades, you’ll find me in the following situation: I’m sitting at my parents’ kitchen table, explaining to them that I’ve decided to drop out of med school and a PhD in philosophy to become a professional photographer. In addition to being a tough conversation, this was perhaps the biggest turning point in my career (and life). It was the moment where I walked away from what I was told I “should” do and committed myself to building a career around my passion: creativity.
It’s a path that few (including me) could have predicted, but I’m far from the only one with a winding path to my ultimate destination. In fact, I’d suggest that paths like mine are the new normal, that the concept of a linear career path is nearly fiction, and almost entirely the exception rather than the rule.
As such, nearly all of us will find ourselves at a turning point in our careers (or lives), whether by choice or by circumstance. And while there are rarely easy choices in these situations, I’d like to share my own personal approach for coming out on the right side of them-- your mileage may vary, but this is what’s worked for me.
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| 0:00.0 | So if you turn back the clock, just a couple of decades, and I know decades, it's a big word, but follow me here. |
| 0:13.5 | Turn back the clock, a couple decades, and you'll find me in the following situation. |
| 0:18.5 | I'm sitting here at my parents' kitchen table and I'm explaining |
| 0:22.1 | a bunch of stuff. I'm explaining why I didn't take that path and play professional soccer |
| 0:30.9 | a few years earlier when I'd had the chance, even though it was a childhood dream, was sitting |
| 0:36.9 | there at the table, explaining to them |
| 0:38.9 | why I'd bailed on medical school just 18 months earlier. |
| 0:44.2 | And why now I was quitting halfway through a PhD in philosophy. |
| 0:52.0 | Not to mention the fact that I was $100,000 in debt, but that I'd quit all of this |
| 1:00.0 | stuff and most recently that journey towards my PhD in philosophy to become a professional |
| 1:06.2 | photographer. Now, in addition to this being a really tough conversation, this was likely outside of meeting my wife, that is, the largest turning point in my entire life. |
| 1:19.5 | This was the moment where I started walking away courageously from what I thought or what I was told that I quote, should do and started committing |
| 1:30.0 | myself to building the career and life around the thing that I really was interested in. |
| 1:36.4 | And that was creativity. |
| 1:39.5 | Now this like conversation on my parents table, right? |
| 1:43.6 | It was really a path that I was on. And this path |
| 1:47.5 | is a path that few people, and including me at the time, could have predicted. But I know now |
| 1:54.4 | that I'm so far from the only person who embarks on this winding path towards our ultimate destination. |
| 2:03.4 | In fact, I think that paths like mine are the new normal. |
| 2:09.0 | The concept of this linear career, this linear life path, it's basically fiction and almost |
| 2:14.9 | entirely the exception rather than the rule. Now, as such, |
| 2:21.5 | nearly all of us are going to then find ourselves at this turning point in our careers or |
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