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Chase Jarvis – May 12, 2016

Chase Jarvis – May 12, 2016
Creativelive.com/30daysofgenius
World Class photographer interviews TF.
  • Plan projects that even if they tail they give you skills for your life
  • What would this look like if it was simple? What’s the easiest thing I can do to put out a good product?
  • Low quota goals set you up for success, and to overshoot the goals.
  • Alleviating the need for peek performance at all times allows for better output.
  • Get into the habit of little wins, and you progress.
  • Celebrate the small wins. Reflect on them in your creative funks.
  • Maya Angelou – “creativity is an infinite resource. The more you spend, the more you have.”
  • Meditate to see your life in slow motion.
  • Creativity – seek out and create the absurd. Without it, it’s creativity. Find it, create it, stop being an adult.
    • Do things just for the hell of it.
  • The masks we wear tell us more about who people are than the truth.
  • List of daily habits – play or make.
  • Nap – lay down for 20 minutes, even if you can’t sleep.
  • Post meditation visualize gratitude and success for the day.
  • No time? Make it. Don’t find it, wake up earlier.
  • Make your bed.
  • Product – dohn white noise machine.
  • Product – sleep mask
  • App – flux
  • Hot bath with Epsom salt at night. Listen to something like an audio book, good podcast.
  • Fiction before bed.
  • Book – Baron in the Trees
  • Blog post – Practical thoughts on suicide
  • Book – Chimpanzee Politics
  • Book – Waking up
  • People treat you the way you train them to treat you.
  • Good content is the best SEO. Derek Sivers can do as well as Jamie Foxx on the podcast for his brand.
  • Once you get good at something, start learning something new, to trigger the beginner brain.
  • Freedom is good, constraints are essential to creativity.
  • Good constraints – you can’t use dashes, and you can’t use parenthesis. Set restrictions, especially around your bad habits.
  • Creative constrains. In dance, you take an arm away from your routine to learn new balance, technique and mindset. Keep it fresh.
  • When going into an interview, constrain yourself only to answers that no one else gives.
  • Billboard – put it on the foot path of the largest University in the US, saying, “you are the average of the five people you associate with most.”
  • Most gifted book – penguin addition, letters from a Stoic.
  • Book – surely you must be joking Mr Fineman.
  • Surprising fact about TF – loves Japanese antique saddles.
  • Commencement speech – make good art.