Latest / Success Story with Scott Clary / Lessons - Creating a Life That Doesn't Require Escape | Chase Jarvis - Creative Entrepreneur

Transcript

Lessons - Creating a Life That Doesn't Require Escape | Chase Jarvis - Creative Entrepreneur · Success Story with Scott Clary

• 0:00
  In this lessons episode, discover how success leaves clues and action is the antidote to endless
• 0:05
  information consumption. Learn how to deconstruct, emulate, analyze, and repeat the habits of high
• 0:10
  performers and understand why directing attention is the key to turning ambition into achievement.
• 0:15
  You know, there's Alex from all these speaks about this and he paints a really good picture.
• 0:30
  Like, when you have nothing to lose, it's like going to the casino and the only option is to
• 0:36
  stay the same or to win. So why don't you just keep gambling if the only option is to win?
• 0:42
  Like the upside of doing things differently is infinite. So taking shots at entrepreneurship building
• 0:49
  your own business, being more creative, like going against the grain, there's unlimited upside.
• 0:55
  I think there's a compounding problem though and I'm curious about your opinion on this because I
• 0:59
  have strong opinion. I think there's a compounding problem that when you look at the potential
• 1:03
  upside and the people that have done it and air quotes and been successful, people have a hard time
• 1:09
  deconstructing the path that it took them to get there. So they're like, yes, I get that there's
• 1:13
  upside, but I get that I'm making $150,000 in my nine to five right now and the path is opaque,
• 1:21
  it's just blurry. I can't see it and I don't know if you have a strategy or if it's something people
• 1:27
  are born with, I seek it out purposefully now in my own life, but I try and reverse engineer how
• 1:33
  people got there because to that makes it psychologically a little bit less scary. Yeah, for sure.
• 1:39
  And as I've said, success leaves clues. There was something in my last book, which was called
• 1:44
  Creative Calling. There is a framework called D or D-E-A-R, deconstruct, emulate, analyze, and repeat.
• 1:55
  You deconstruct the lives that you see other people leading. I wonder how to use Alex Ramosi.
• 2:02
  Well, he's very clear. He told you how he did it. The reality is you can find out largely in
• 2:07
  this world that we live in today, a lot of the attributes, the risks, the understandings, that
• 2:13
  people that you look up to respect the admire, you can deconstruct their lives. I did that originally
• 2:19
  with photography with artists. I'd look at all the artists in the 70s, 80s in New York. I loved,
• 2:25
  Robert Washingtonburg, Andy Warhol. How did they build their career? What do they do it? I read
• 2:30
  books. I watch documentaries. I just devoured information about them. You can do that again today.
• 2:36
  It's even easier on the internet or following someone's career, listen to their podcasts. You can
• 2:42
  deconstruct the steps that anyone else took. You emulate them. Start, you have to act like a pro before
• 2:48
  you are them. You have to act like the person that you want to be before you are them. You have to
• 2:53
  order the habits that the people that you aspire to be like have built and you build those habits.
• 2:59
  And then analyze what is getting you closer to your goals and what is taking you further away
• 3:04
  from them. Do more of the things that are making you closer to your goals and do less of the things
• 3:08
  that are pulling you away from them. And then you repeat the things that are working. This is a very,
• 3:14
  you know, it's a very available system to us. And yet, where we stumble is in the
• 3:22
  the attention. Our attention, the first chapter of my new book Never Played Safe is about attention
• 3:29
  because rather than being very intentional about following someone who's doing what you have
• 3:36
  a vision for yourself, you might want to do something like that and taking action in the same way
• 3:40
  that they've done it, we get trapped watching endless videos of not just them, but anybody who's
• 3:48
  like them. And we believe that that's getting closer to our goal. And the reality is that we
• 3:54
  it's like 10% planning, 90% action, you cannot achieve any of this stuff from the couch.
• 4:01
  And so to the person that you've fictitiously, you know, oriented us around being
• 4:05
  into this question, the person who isn't a nine to five and making a hundred grand, no judgment
• 4:12
  at all. But if you find that you are seeking something beyond where you're at right now,
• 4:17
  it's not what are you watching? What are you thinking about? It's what are you doing?
• 4:20
  What action? What steps are you taking? And I would encourage you to look into Europe. If you don't
• 4:26
  even know what kind of business you want to build or you don't know what your next career move is,
• 4:30
  have you experimented? Are you actually doing stuff? Are you playing in the areas that are
• 4:35
  interesting to you? Because that's where the best stuff is. That's where you have been aligned in
• 4:39
  your past. Those are the areas that are worth exploring. And the cool thing is when you do things
• 4:44
  that you love, the world happens for you not to. You get more energy, not less. You know,
• 4:50
  it's like a tractor beam for those Star Wars nerds out there towards the best shit. And yet
• 4:57
  the world would have you believe you have to intellectualize all this stuff. Do it from the couch.
• 5:01
  Your mind has been hijacked because you're endlessly scrolling, looking for more Alex
• 5:04
  Hermosi's rather than, you know, trying to base. Instead of trying to be a second rate, him,
• 5:09
  what about a first rate you and the thing that you want to be do or become? There is a,
• 5:14
  you, you touched on something. I've thought about this a lot. It seems like, of course,
• 5:19
  there's different audiences we're speaking to. But the audience that is listening to this is probably
• 5:24
  not an audience that has an issue trying to consume more information because they're listening to
• 5:27
  this podcast, right? But it almost seems like we're over indexing on just knowledge. It's almost
• 5:32
  invoked to just learn shit. Listen to podcasts on 1.5x2. How fast can I listen to as many
• 5:40
  podcasts as I possibly can? How many books can I read every single week? And it's, it's just
• 5:46
  funny how these, how people just, they, they want to do everything except do the fucking work.
• 5:52
  It's like everything, but doing the work. They're like, well, and this is, you know, again,
• 5:57
  the way that the pattern that this book is presented is a pretty simple one. And that I have,
• 6:05
  again, deconstructed what has worked for me and where I had gone wrong has worked for many of my
• 6:11
  friends and peers and the highest performers in the world and what has gone wrong for them. And
• 6:17
  essentially landed on the fact that there are seven tools that naturally reside within us,
• 6:26
  that this, and that's the cool thing. We don't have to go looking for them. They're already there.
• 6:31
  That will help us find this alignment. And I mentioned attention. I'll go back to it again. Like
• 6:39
  at some point, this, the endless scrolling, the endless information consumption,
• 6:44
  that is a hijacking of your attention, not you directing it towards action, right? That is,
• 6:52
  and that is a absolutely fundamental thing. You cannot, you cannot, none of the people that you
• 6:57
  respected, my are appreciate, got what they have in life, learned the lessons, were able to,
• 7:05
  you know, create the success and most importantly, the fulfillment that they feel through thinking
• 7:11
  about it. It was, it's all through doing, right? No, 100%. I'm curious out of, out of those seven
• 7:19
  traits, which one did you personally have the most trouble with manifesting or living?
• 7:29
  I think our intuition is the thing that we, it's the most powerful thing that we know the least
• 7:37
  about. The weird crazy thing is if, if you pay attention to actual science around intuition,
• 7:45
  it's becoming pretty compelling. The results about the understanding of the rational line,
• 7:50
  instead of that being the most impressive default mode to the human being, we actually find that
• 7:57
  the rational line is sort of slow and prone to errors and that intuition, it incorporates
• 8:04
  the rational line plus a bunch of other stuff. And the reality is that we have, you know,
• 8:09
  trillions of cells in our body and they all have, there's memory within all of those things.
• 8:14
  This is why it's a gut feeling. You feel these things in your body and not in your head.
• 8:19
  Now, the cool thing is that the highest performers, they have, developed, they have attuned
• 8:27
  to trust their intuition. And this is not to say that intuition is always right. However,
• 8:34
  if you are wondering where you ought to be going in your life, if this is something that is
• 8:39
  aligned with your values or not, this is usually not a heady experience. It is a head, heart,
• 8:47
  gut body feeling. It's a whole sort of body alignment. And you know, when my,
• 8:55
  when my family, for example, it was saying, oh, you're smart and hardworking and talented,
• 9:00
  you should be a doctor or a lawyer or whatever. Of course, as, you know, the impressionable
• 9:07
  16-year-old, and he was like, okay, cool. What do, what do, like hardworking talented,
• 9:11
  okay, that's what they do. And yet, I knew that in my bones from day one and yet
• 9:17
  hundreds of thousands of dollars in student loan years off track, only to find myself,
• 9:23
  part with you, that journey realizing that I knew all along that this was not the right thing.
• 9:29
  And you can, you know, copy and paste that into a hundred different areas of our lives. And yet,
• 9:35
  if I told you that what, what did you really, really want as a kid? This is why my number one
• 9:41
  journal entry is, what do I really want? I'd soft, I often journal on this for 30 days straight,
• 9:47
  and you get 1% smarter and more accurate. And it's a fascinating exercise. When you start to
• 9:54
  be able to tune into intuition and listen to it and trust like this business partner of that,
• 9:58
  this business deal or that, it's a pretty powerful thing. So for me, that was a big one, mostly because
• 10:05
  the world, the people who love us and care for us are, you know, want, again, the illusion
• 10:11
  of safety for us. And yet, knowing that it doesn't exist, how do we, how do we strengthen that
• 10:16
  muscle within us? So to me, again, being able to direct your attention, fascinating quote from
• 10:22
  Andrew Huberman, the professor at Stanford, he said attention is the most, I think it's the most
• 10:30
  important deciding factor between success and failure in any endeavor. It's the most important
• 10:37
  thing in any line of like, pursuit, the ability to direct your attention. And yet here we are, you
• 10:45
  know, stuck on our devices, swirling endlessly. So in the book, I'm very specific about how you can
• 10:51
  get better at developing your attention. You can get better at listening to your intuition. And again,
• 10:55
  I just default to the people who so many of us respect and admire either in our personal lives
• 11:02
  that we actually know or our parasocial lives, the people that we see on the internet that we
• 11:05
  respect and appreciate. I'm telling you, they are world class at these attributes.
• 11:12
  Thanks for tuning in. If you found this valuable, don't forget to hit that subscribe button so you
• 11:16
  never miss an episode. And if you want to dive deeper into this conversation, check out the links
• 11:21
  in the description to watch the full episode. See you in the next one.