Using Constraints to Fuel Your Best Work Ever /w Scott Belsky

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Chase Jarvis

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4.8 • 641 Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2017

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Scott Belsky is one of those guests where I couldn’t possibly do justice to their resume - but here’s the short version: He’s currently the Executive Chairmen of the professional referral platform Prefer, was the founder of Behance, the creative portfolio platform that I’m sure many of you use, VP at Adobe, and author of the bestselling book “Making Ideas Happen.” I’m leaving out a ton - such as his time at Goldman Sachs, Benchmark, and as an early investor in Pinterest, Uber, and Periscope among others - but you get the idea - incredibly accomplished entrepreneur and passionate advocate for creativity.

Today on the podcast,

* He has an amazing term called “the messy middle,” which essentially refers to all the stuff between the start of a company and the flashy exit or spectacular failure

* He is also militant about the critical importance of, well, doing shit - of focusing on execution over plans or ideas

* We also riff on the value of focus and prioritizing, another common weak point for creators and entrepreneurs

Enjoy!

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0:00.0	Hey friends, it's me. It's Chase Jarvis. I want to welcome you to another episode of the
0:08.5	Chase Jarvis live show here on Creative Live. This show is where I sit down with the world's top
0:13.2	creators, top entrepreneurs, thought leaders, and I do everything I can to unpack their brains
0:18.7	to help you live your dreams in career, in hobby, and in life.
0:22.3	Today's show is a doozy because my guest is Mr. Scott Belski.
0:29.0	Scott is, you know Scott's work, if you've been in this creator or entrepreneur community.
0:34.1	He's one of these guests, I couldn't possibly do justice to his resume
0:38.5	because he's touched so many things that are out there in the world that I believe you use.
0:43.4	From books he's created to software products, he's worked on, the short version of his bio
0:48.6	was basically the executive chairman of a new professional referral platform called Preferer.
0:52.7	This is part of his role as an entrepreneur.
0:55.0	He's been involved in so many companies. He's an early investor in companies like Uber.
1:00.2	He was the founder of Behance, that creative portfolio platform that a lot of you use. Adobe purchased
1:06.2	that from him, I don't know, probably half a dozen years ago. Then he was a VP at Adobe. He was in charge of
1:11.9	many things like community. And among all of these, this list, he also created a book called
1:18.7	Making Ideas Happen, which was specifically targeted at the creator and entrepreneur
1:23.0	communities where so many of us have great ideas, but we don't actually kick them into gear.
1:28.6	Scott is a doer. I'm leaving a ton of stuff out, like his career at Goldman Sachs.
1:33.4	He also had a stint as a partner at Benchmark, which is one of the top venture firms in Silicon
1:38.8	Valley. Anyway, you get the idea. He's an incredibly accomplished entrepreneur and a radical advocate for creativity.
1:46.7	The episode is overflowing with nuggets specifically around the common thread of self-awareness.
1:54.1	You know, this comes up again and again on this show. He's so smart. He sometimes outsmarts himself in this show in a really elegant way by recognizing, rather, his imperfections and setting up systems to defend against those.
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