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Never Let Them Define Who You Are

“Sometimes in our industry, our professionalism, we get [put into] silos…it should be all of our goals to break out of those silos. The more you work, the more people want to put you in a silo so they can define who you are by their terms. Our job is to never let anyone define who we are…”

John Jay–W+K’s Global Executive Creative Director–on creativity and breaking out of silos. There’s a lot to learn from these 2 minutes.

The above video, plus stills for a Fast Company assignment shot by Matthew Furman. Check him out here.]

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  1. Erin Wilson says:
    August 11, 2011 at 10:33 am

    Hell yeah!

  2. CallumW says:
    August 11, 2011 at 9:58 am

    Doesn’t play on mobile 🙁

    What’s the URL?

    CW

    1. johnjohn says:
      August 11, 2011 at 10:35 am

      http://blog.chasejarvis.com/blog/2011/08/never-let-them-define-who-you-are/

    2. Chase says:
      August 11, 2011 at 11:53 am

      Callum – if I’m not mistaken you seem to occasionally pine at not being able to watch stuff on mobile – yet this is freakin YouTube, broseph. Can you help us out by sharing mobile device doesn’t play that? thanks!

      1. Callum Winton says:
        October 8, 2011 at 5:37 am

        Hey Chase.
        First time I’ve said it bud 🙂
        It’s a Win7 phone. It plays Youtube vids, but not always.

        Haven’t yet figured why it doesn’t play them all the time, but I suspect it’s when they’re embedded into a webpage in a certain way.

        If I have a link then I can watch it directly from the YT pages

        Hope that helps
        CW

      2. CallumW says:
        October 21, 2011 at 10:10 pm

        Wee update.
        I recently updated my phone OS to 7.1 (mango) and the embedded videos now play 🙂

        CW

  3. AJ says:
    August 11, 2011 at 9:11 am

    This is natural coming from a person of Asian origin. I would like to see more Western artist also think this way.

  4. Alex Maragos says:
    August 11, 2011 at 9:06 am

    Very important words Chase, very important. Great post.

  5. jacob says:
    August 11, 2011 at 9:06 am

    The truth it’s hard to find people you think about soul in industry…..but that’s a good thing for the professionals.

    1. jacob says:
      August 11, 2011 at 9:08 am

      it’s who think about soul

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