#AskGaryVee Episode 154: Chase Jarvis Answers Questions on the Show

on this episode Chasey visits me you ask questions and I answer them this is the ask g b show hey everybody this is Gary V Nerd Chuck and this is episode 154 of the ask four V Ask Gary V show show show show Chase why don't you tell the vayer nation for I know many are going to know who you are uh as a matter of fact a lot of people that watch this show discovered me on when you hosted me instead of what we're doing now me hosting you um why don't you really you know do a quick little 90c W RP of who you are shy uh photographer artist SP that my whole life about uh four years ago started a company called creative live with my friend Craig and now it's the largest live streaming education company in the world incredible and we reached Millions people all over the globe that's my main focus right now still making stuff but uh now trying to help other people around the world make their stuff in photography design film making make a life as an entrepreneur where' you grow up grew up in Seattle uh parents you know super middle class my dad was a cop my mom was an administrator in a biotech company grew up playing sports was conflicted as a creative CU I was also a jock and those things didn't go together I don't know if together back then now it's everything now it's now well for now creatives are cooler than I mean being like a jock in high school outside of like certain parts of it's crazy at least on the coast now you're like in fifth place yeah pretty interesting times but actually in skateboard culture helped me put those two things together because super creative and so I grew up as a skate Punk Grom and built a career that I wanted more than why don't we link up and I think in YouTube we oh no you have to control anyway let's give some love to what the interview I did with you why don't you uh why don't you tell everybody about that series and what you do there because I think for this specific this you're part of a double header today yes first time ever the askary V show double header I just had my father-in-law here different speed yes um but uh but so I think for our AUD my father was an old school marketer sure best dude that was a fun episode super fun two in one day and I'm putting them up the same day no like taping no like changing got this I've got meetings till 12 tonight I got plenty uh but why don't you tell her I think a lot of people are going to enjoy yeah what you're the show you're doing is so incredible and I think I want to siphon as many people that watch this to make sure they're watching your thing of course so started a show about also five years ago same time we started creative live called Chase Jarvis live uh actually I turned down a bunch of network opportuni to do show onv and a lot of that kind of stuff because they all didn't understand it didn't want to do it right and the economic deal sucks [ __ ] Gary do TV sure do [ __ ] get paid and know nothing great the short story too long already uh just started producing it out of my photo studio in Seattle uh inviting people that I thought were great and doing cool [ __ ] and driving culture not just digital culture but photographers filmmakers guys like this turkey um folks like matore uh Adrien grer from ontourage doing interesting things and people you that are super famous and also people you've never heard of who were just like grinding away doing the cool [ __ ] so just basically bringing creativity and those folks to the inter I think my interview is one of the great shows in the history of your show for sure and I think actually the best I would say surprise you actually I think you pulled or you said I don't know I got something from you people about you know I think it's between this show or this show best interviews you were your best 100% you and uh the blaze will Blaze right the blaz yeah uhhuh I think a lot of people voted for the blaze I don't know who the yeah go ahead we curse yeah okay so do I so I thought you were at your best on my show you know what's interesting about your show talk about it let's go I'm my fattest really yeah is that why people don't like it they that's why they rated it second to the blaze no The Blaze he did a great job I mean look it was like go watch it dick don't judge it for real it's very good it's 9 to this guy but I've lost 27 lbs since that you look great thanks man I that's what I was fishing for I appreciate it India let's get into the show all right let's do it India okay Malik has so many good questions I just keep having Malik listen he's a beast he gets on the show a bunch Chase Malik asked if I pursue

what I think is my passion but don't come close to achieving what I want will I've wasted my time go chase you can ask it again yeah one more time Malik asked if I pursue what I think is my passion but don't come close to achieving what I want will I have wasted my time no cuz there's only there's really only one thing in life which is doing exactly what you're Sor what supposed to be doing and that doesn't come from out here I'm I've lived this exact problem I did what everybody else wanted me to do for the first chapter of my life and I who's that who who's that was your parents the world yeah I agree the market a doctor a lawyer or some [ __ ] or something else and like I literally yeah guys by the way who were watching we're old yeah back then doctor and lawyer was like yeah you're so smart doctor lawyer respect when's the last time a 18-year-old now was like you should be a doctor and lawyer that's like prof's going to run out of people oh my God it's insane I mean that just took me to such a weird place like it was like you should be a doctor or a lawyer that's exact or an accountant literally was L those that was the list and these are my parents were amazingly supportive this isn't really come from my parents but just like culturally that's where your friends parents were a son of a [ __ ] right I [ __ ] hate the friends parents the counselor at school like oh yeah you got I never went to my guance counselor ever four years of high school never went they don't know [ __ ] they're living in a different era no I don't want to disrespect cuz those folks were I disrespect different era that being said I served somebody else for a long time emotionally mentally even trying to reconcile being an artist an athlete that was cuz I was paying attention to what culture wanted for me but that's all [ __ ] there's only one thing yeah you're right there and that's you doing what you're supposed to be doing in the world and you can pay your dues I have a lot of respect for working hard digging ditches doing stuff to survive practicality you call it but let's be real like you have to do the thing that's in here otherwise you're burning you're just burning time I'm going to throw a different uh in addition yes in addition you always say yes and that's what you're supposed to do on these show yeah uh is that the thing yes uhuh no but I will say this that uh that I'm countercultural Mike uh Mike is just my fake name for General people um self-awareness my big thing more than anything is do not live on regret so I definitely am also on team being happy will always Trump more money at the end at the end so I try to play that way luckily for Me Mine collided together but if you know you and you know like money's like money like you just are obsessed by money then maybe you should do the thing that makes you the most money because you won't sit there one day and say damn I wish I was an artist now if you're the other way that qualifies that's like listening in here and you have to be honest if what you want to be is something is a needle point expert but you want to make $10 million a year those two things don't go together so you got to be real yeah I mean it's self-awareness like reverse engineer yourself to not have regrets being be having regrets in your 70s ' 80s and ' 90s is literally to me the worst thing that can happen in life for sure what's this what's the ask her's name Malik seriously in here the answers are all in here you got to Recon World CH I will say this though and this is something I've spent a lot of time with this show on is we're we really going to go here yes okay you I do believe that you and I got lucky by having self-awareness and like emotional intelligence is you know the New Black it's seriously oh for sure it's by the way it's always been the black it's just being put front and center um I just want to make sure we're giving practical advice saying like follow from what's in here I have family members who literally have no [ __ ] idea what's in here I know them cold they have no idea that's actually thing one is you got to figure it out and the way you figure out is to live your life and get in Adventures and do up you have you know what I'm so on that test and learn between 20 and 30 to me is hot I'm hot on this idea that if you really want to live the best life you can live the new game plan is from 20 to 30 test a lot of things cuz the downside the risk is you could go risky and the it's you've got bigger upside than downside class Richard Branson mitigate the downside and that's literally why creative life exists so you can take thousands of classes from the world's best people and you can literally dabble and it's not just dabble to Community College you're taking it from like pure priz winner New York Times bestseller this guy like smart people get your hands dirty like we're going to be here for 17 hours Let's Go India fire today um sorry yeah from Allen it's do you know AJ's name is Allen Jack really yeah call AJ Allen okay two L's a in third grade he said he was Alan La in third grade AJ said call me Allan that lasted for a couple months he's back to AJ go ahead Allan

asked would you rather time travel 100 years into the past or future and why past I would make so much [ __ ] bank I'd buy the Jets for $10,000 in 1963 and i' be good but you can't take money with you you're not saying that I'll make [ __ ] money India because you know the outcome of everything on the planet pleas the money factor not even close this is Gary admit what he didn't mean you see the oh you didn't mean that Allan would got it I think Allan means you can see the future well I tricked you I said with what you know now you said yes I me like emotionally we were just talking about get out of here I know you [ __ ] all right real life let's take a step back if you don't know anything and you land and didn't know that you did that yeah I would go to the Future only because I right now as a human know what happened over the last 100 years and the upside is not knowing I put my answer through the exact same filter if you know everything I'd go backwards so you can like do some really powerful [ __ ] don't know anything go forward like send me for the future I mean I'd be like this Microsoft company feels right I've heard I have never heard this I like this uh governor in Arkansas I bet you he's going to be president I would just kill it people be like no stradamus that I'd be crushing cool Vlad asked dear Gary in

episode 122 you say it 22 to 24 don't settle what is the settling age I thought you should never settle that's so weird that's so funny this is coming right from something you yes what's interesting is we just talked about it though how I just said from 20 to 30 that's funny that's interesting timing um look I think first of all I think every goddamn answer on this show has to be very personal meaning if you and your boyfriend or girlfriend have a baby when you're both 17 because that's what happened in your life practicality enters your world sayy I was just a Casey Studio bab that's exactly right so you know practicality comes and knock and say yo what's up man practicality here right cuz you're a different 17-year-old because you have a child coming it's something you got to know you got to have to raise a child so for every single person that's watching I think practicality or settling cuz they cousins they don't have to be the exact same thing but there's cousins in them um comes at different times I do think look I know a lot of 40 to 50 year olds that are still living in outer space and dreaming and I think there's diminishing returns at some level around that especially if it hasn't happened already unless we're happy but isn't practicality the thing you dip into because you can be living your dream you can be pretending living in fantasy land but you got to pay rent you got to eat and sometimes that actually dip into real life is what motivates your passion like those two things they I feel like well that's Casey's favorite answer right I don't know if you guys talked about Casey's favorite answer I think he said in the show was do something you hate to realize how much you want to do something else go wash dishes like he unbelievably motivating all you have to do what's the thing you did the most in your life that you hated I oh my God I went to school for [ __ ] ever yeah forever the world from 6 to 18 I hated life yeah it I mean that's why I love it so much now I'm not in [ __ ] English class seriously like we got to put a filter on this culturally like there this is a real thing that people are going to college for all the wrong reasons do you need a piece of paper that says you have to have a piece of paper to cut someone open I want my doctor to be CER certified I want my airline pilot to be certified anything else why or maybe there's some value there or if you're exploring if you're trying to figure your [ __ ] out school is a reasonable thing but I the average person graduates college with $35,200 in debt that's the average so for everybody who graduates with only 10 grand there's someone who graduates with 50 that's [ __ ] that preaching yeah that's I've been pumping out some serious content around this issue uh so the answer is it's different for everybody some people get practical at 16 yeah you know they don't have that risk uh tolerance um or you figure it out there's a practicality when you figure out what you want to do then you got to get to work would you call that practical yeah look here's what I truly think I think [ __ ] is really hitting the fan I think the internet I don't know if you heard of it but obviously have uh all of us have it's only 20 years old I know it's been around for a long time I know there's nerds that say I know I mean in Windows 95 came out normal people started going on the internet we are 20 years into this thing is fundamentally the biggest culture shift of our time they've changed everything we're just starting and all the rules need to be thought about in a very aggressive way because there's so many alternatives to the way that we always thought the amount of people that go to college because that's what their parents want because their parents were sold on the propaganda of college before that it's literally about their ego most of the time 100% I believe my son went to this yep I made a shirt called schmarvard that is like literally my number one selling t-shirt it's not even close I saw it is it blue is it yes I remember India I didn't know the story that's good Isam asked would you say the

tea and timing is way more important than the tea and talent not even close for me yeah no is Ish Isham do not disrespect the show no timing is a talent in itself like everybody thinks like send like yeah in 2006 after carefully watching YouTube for five months I just got lucky I decided to go on it you know lucky timing for Me Oh weird let me no no there was talent and understanding that this platform was going to be meaningful that that's why I got I mean I hear you got so lucky with your timing with YouTube [ __ ] I [ __ ] paid attention yeah it's going there I there was talent in understanding that this was going to be important and I put time in effort to learn it wasn't L weird here I am oh weird here's YouTube it's no it's not timing is a talent in itself one of the most important T talents Chase for sure I mean I already think I told Isham that's like is Isham is is Isham Talent cultivated what are you good at what do you love that's what matters timing I mean sure I guess it matters in the sake of getting hit by a bus but that's about it yeah too many people think you were at the right place at the right time let me tell you something ishim and everybody else if the internet didn't come along I would have 177,000 liquor stores right now would have been great timing for bricks and mortar like Talent trumps all it is the absolute variable period and story hard work's in there yeah listen yes I love the hustle talent without hard work is pretty much yes but Talent is the but I do think isable timing it's not even a close not even in the same yeah timing but I killed it but I will say this if I work six if I work 16 hours a day on my basketball game I am not going to be an NBA player sure Talent is the variable what hard work does is it maximizes that Talent of whatever you deploy that hard work against Isham sorry about that real did Isham ask it that way I heard you in that no he just said it in a weird way he said is the tea in timing more important than the tea in Talent that's the question he very nice of you trying to save Isham but no I that question really question yeah no timing is a talent guys timing is a talent itself somebody's be like oh Gary you were so lucky with the timing virtual reality and 360 video no no no I had talented figuring out that this is about to be the time for that thing to pop I think what's going on with you guys in 360 video 360 [ __ ] video I know it's we're playing around you can imagine being in an educational environment where you can look around and see everything at your will like that's UC that's next level India last one from Cory you do five I five my favorite number five Cory asked

Star Wars or Star Trek or both Star Wars not Star Trek too how old are you I'm 43 yeah that makes sense and I'm 39 and like that's like the Golden Era for like if if you were 52 if we asked Peter he might have been Star Trek because Star Trek was earlier there's not a lot of 32 to 40 year old Star Trek over there's a funny pocket of maybe 35 to 42 because there is a funny pocket of like 30 to 35 or Star Trek the Next Generation during a lle of Star Wars where it popped a little bit but my intuition is that actually quick side question of the day get in there Star Trek or Star Wars and your age I think people will realize I think Star Trek is really 48 and above and then a weird little pocket of 30 to 32 yeah and there's a couple of like people who are yeah really like that Star Trek and no like that's it's a sure it's an interesting cultural thing but Star Wars you love Star Wars I don't freak out like Game of Thrones like there's some like Star Wars is the only thing I go for like I'll go see Star Wars opening night for sure because that's a cultural it's and for me it was a big thing cuz it's like the Jets Star Wars these were some of the few pillars that made me an American when I first came all of the Star Wars action figures and all their guns do you still have them uh yeah they're worth some money no they're not send them to me um Star Wars Chase yep you get the floor for the last couple seconds one little rant and then the question of the day you get to ask the vayer nation any question they'll leave comments I would really think about using this as a focus group do your thing nope I cannot help you nope on the spot I'm enjoying this tremendously yeah look at this very similar um so uh so keep stop stalling and ask the question damn you know me um I know everybody Chase I know everybody you're very you score very high on the emotional intelligence scale Chase do you know I think I'm all time like 11 no no I yes um in that context uh I actually in my will have put that when humans figure out how to measure EQ I want to be dug up and tested because I truly think I'm all time yeah go ahead I think you score very high all time um the what you're asking me to do is ask the Viner Nation a question that I want to use basically use them as a focus group you don't have to do anything you want I just at this point want you to ask any [ __ ] question uh I mean ask them if they think the Mets are going to win the World Series I mean like come up with something what's their favorite color I don't give a [ __ ] this point talk to me about so this is about virtual reality okay what I want to know about virtual reality is How likely do you think it is that it will change the game in the next 24 months is it going to be everywhere in the next 24 months or is it like uh so many things that they thought were going to happen and did it is it going to get just punted in like the connected home everyone thought connected home 2010 yeah all that [ __ ] got punted way down field so what about virtual reality is it happening now or is it going to get to punt that's a great question because I talk a lot about timing and practicality around when these things pop we know it's going to happen but is it 24 months or less or is this more like a seven years from now it's really going to happen there you go good Chase thanks for being on the show man much respect suc thank you very much bye people you keep asking questions will keep answering it