Tunnel Vision is the Death of Creativity with Ami Vitale

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4.8 • 641 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2019

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

After more than a decade covering conflict, photographer and filmmaker Ami Vitale couldn’t help but notice that the less sensational—but equally true—stories were often not getting told: the wedding happening around the corner from the revolution, triumphs amidst seemingly endless devastation. As a result, she re-committed herself to seeking out the stories within and around "the story".

Ami is a photographer with National Geographic magazine, yet this episode of the podcast isn't expressly about photography. It's about human connection, how we listen to our inner compass and surface work that helps us find our true direction in life.

In this episode:

The stories we find in the headlines are only one view of the world. Yet if we just lift our head and gain a new perspective, we might see a completely different and untold story.
Patience, hard work, and commitment open doors and opportunities. Real relationships with people or places takes time to build but with it comes powerful stories.
What we tell ourselves shape our reality - and we can choose to tell ourselves stories that lift us. You’ll hear Ami articulate how she does this and how you can too...
We are more alike than we are different. Realizing this can be a powerful force in unlocking the way you move through the world - with tangible benefits to be found...

Enjoy!

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0:00.0	Hey, Rudy, what's up? It's Chase. Welcome to another episode of the show. It's the Chase Jarvis Live show here on Creative Live. I always have a lot of energy in these intros because this is one of my favorite moments of the week where I get to record the intro for the show and this episode is a
0:22.1	whopper because my guest is Amy Vitaly. Now, Amy is a National Geographic photographer,
0:29.8	but this, this show today is not expressly about photography. What I wanted to do is I'm really right now focused for some
0:39.6	reason on human connection, right, on how do we listen to our inner compass? There's so much
0:47.4	stuff going on in the world right now. And I've got a ton of feedback coming in from all
0:52.4	y'all who listen to this show, pay attention to me and
0:55.5	or creative live out there in the internet and the world. And I just hear this craving for human
1:01.4	connection, for compass, for direction. And so what I thought I'd do is go into some of the content that we've recorded
1:12.1	and try and surface this stuff that helps us find this connection
1:18.3	and find our direction in a way that very few things
1:23.8	that are out there in the world today are helpful in doing. And so this bit from
1:30.8	Amy Vitale, again, National Geographic photographer, is so helpful in this end goal. Now,
1:39.8	I'll say that I'll just give you a little background here on Amy. Again, you're in for a treat here.
1:45.1	So Amy was in the Creative Life Studios as a part of a thing called Photo Week. She is a photo
1:50.9	journalist and a filmmaker and has traveled to more than a hundred countries. Now, I think the last
1:56.7	time I counted, I was in the like 85 or something range and I'm what is it Chris Chris
2:03.2	Gillibow another friend of ours he's done he was the first person under the age of 35 to do
2:07.1	all 195 countries point being is Amy is insanely well traveled I consider myself having
2:15.8	flown millions and millions of air miles and Amy's got me
2:18.1	whooped. She's done all this with a camera in her hand as well. She's lived in mud huts, war zones.
2:26.1	She's, you know, come down with malaria. And she's even donned a panda suit as a part of living out her dream to travel, study remote cultures, and document this with a camera.
2:42.3	And to not just explain the world to others, but to herself.
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