Hello, your friend Chase.

Welcome to another episode of the show.

Chase's Your Office Show here on Creative Live, you know the show where I sit down with awesome humans or I do what I can to share something that I have learned that has deeply impacted me, my career, my friends, peers,

people that I aspire to be more like, or perhaps people that are on your radar,

to identify a couple of key characteristics of the most truly remarkable people that I

have encountered in my career. One of these things is that the truly remarkable people

are not just masters of their craft, say they're a designer, a photographer, a filmmaker,

needlepoint, entrepreneur. They're not just masters of that craft in the narrow sense small C thought of craft,

but rather they are a combination of that craft and other things that elevate or enhance

their work.

And by the word work in this case, I mean work with a capital W. Their purview,

everything they do in touch. So again, it's not just the craft, but it's a combination of craft

and lots of other small toppings, if you will, that they sprinkle on their work, that elevates it, that separates it,

and makes it more distinctive from the work of their peers or other work that we see in the

industry. In fact, the very best photographers, I know, the best creators, teachers, accountants,

insert any job here. They are also entrepreneurs or entrepreneurs. They

are authors, they are speakers, marketers, they are strategists, and more. In short, you've heard me

use this word hyphens before. We are all hyphens. But again, one of these

characteristics are the best performers I know. The best humans, in fact, is that they lean

into being this hyphen rather than run away from it, rather than focused exclusively on the

core. And right now, you say, okay, I'm picking this, I'm picking

up what you're putting down, Chase, but I have a couple of questions. I don't understand how we can

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