mastery Archives - Chase Jarvis Photography

Feb 08

How to Infuse Your Life into Your Creative Work with Timothy Goodman

Timothy Goodman has been around the creative block. An award-winning artist, graphic designer, author and public speaker, his work has been featured in the New York Times, Fast Company and Wall Street Journal. He has designed for names like Nike, Samsung, Yves Saint Laurent, MoMA and Netflix to Tiffany & Co., Uniqlo, Target Apple, Google, and The New Yorker. In 2021, Goodman made his debut as a solo gallery artist with I’m Too Young To... read more ›

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Jan 23

Why Creative Cross-Training is Actually Better than Productivity Hacks

Let’s get something clear: all the “productivity” gibberish we read in our social feeds day in and day out is largely a waste of time. Productivity has become a self-help institution that deals with the symptoms rather than the cause of our problems. Instead of finding ways to cram more five-minute meetings into a day or accelerate the hamster wheel of emails flowing into your in-box, start thinking about how you can cultivate the state... read more ›

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Jan 18

Skill Stacking: How to Combine Your Talents for Greater Success with David Epstein

David Epstein is a world-renowned author, creator, and speaker. He wrote the #1 New York Times best seller 'Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World', and 'The Sports Gene', both of which have been translated in more than 20 languages. With a background in science reporting and investigative journalism, Epstein has authored articles for publications such as Sports Illustrated, ProPublica and The Atlantic. His work covers topics such as the science of performance, genetics,... read more ›

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Oct 26

The Creative Process: How to Get from Garbage to Good with Joey Cofone

I recently sat down with Joey Cofone, Co-Founder, and CEO of Baronfig. Joey is an award-winning graphic designer based in New York. Joey's work appeals to curious minds. He’s released his new book The Laws of Creativity where he helps us uncover the thinking and science behind the creative process and gets us thinking in a whole new way. How To Turn Skill Into Mastery How does skill turn to mastery? When we understand... read more ›

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Sep 26

Begin by Doing

Chase Jarvis is silhouetted standing in front of a window

Are you looking for a place to start? Is the number of options overwhelming? It's always best to begin by doing. School taught me that I'm not ready to learn something properly until I've actually tried it or developed a curiosity so deep that I'm willing to engage with it for hours. As a photographer, I needed to start taking photos before I read a pile of books about how lenses work or what depth of... read more ›

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Apr 18

10 Ways to Grow Your Career

Career decisions can be daunting. The right choice is often unclear, and the trade offs uncertain. Should you stay in your current role or go look for something new? Is it in your best interest to move cities and re locate or double down on your current market? These big decisions can leave us paralyzed. And yet, one of the ways to break through that paralysis is by soliciting the opinions of others. As the... read more ›

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Mar 14

Managing Burnout with Your 9-5

Throughout the course of my career, I've seen how critical mentorship (both 1 on 1 and at scale) is in helping others navigate unfamiliar waters. Sure, experiential learning tends to give the best results, but having benefitted immensely from advice I've received from role models and mentors over the years, I'm always keen to respond to thoughtful and honest questions from you all. If you're creatively stuck, making a difficult business decision or just want... read more ›

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Dec 27

How to Hack Your Creativity

Each and every moment is an opportunity to create. It might be as simple as cooking a meal, trying a new exercise or co-creating a conversation, but creativity on a small scale has a tremendous ripple effect in other areas of life. It's a muscle with infinite potential. Sounds crazy, right? Creativity and art are often conflated. While they're certainly related, they are not the same thing. Simply put, creativity is connecting two unlikely or... read more ›

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Jul 22

The Science of Making Work Not Suck with Adam Grant

Interested in making work not suck? We spend a quarter of our lives in our jobs. My guest today wants to make all that time worth your time. Enter Organizational Psychologist, Adam Grant. Adam has been Wharton’s top-rated professors for 7 straight years. He is recognized as one of the world’s most-cited, most prolific, and most influential researchers in business and economics. He has written 4 New York Times best selling books including Give and... read more ›

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Jun 03

Know What Drives You with Michael Gervais

Dr. Michael Gervais is a high performance psychologist working in the trenches of high-stakes environments with some of the best in the world. His clients include world record holders, Olympians, internationally acclaimed artists, MVPs from every major sport and Fortune 100 CEOs. Dr. Gervais is also the co-founder of Compete to Create, an educational platform for mindset training. In this episode, Michael helps us unpack & decode the journey to mastery through mindset skills and... read more ›

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