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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. Chirag says:
    August 12, 2011 at 6:13 am

    Very well said. Thanks for sharing, Chase!

  2. fas says:
    August 12, 2011 at 5:26 am

    Wonderful video. Makes me wanna get creative, but is it possible :p

  3. WL says:
    August 12, 2011 at 4:15 am

    @AJ “This is natural coming from a person of Asian origin…”

    What does that mean? Are you saying that people of Asian origin shouldn’t be defined as people of Asian origin?

  4. Laurent Egli says:
    August 12, 2011 at 2:57 am

    Great insight, thanks. Here is an idea, how about to make a video database where every photographer would submit his strongest advice on photography business in 15 seconds or so. It would make a great edit of all these advice cramped up in a few minutes or accessible one by one. What do you think?
    Laurent

  5. Yuto Watanabe says:
    August 11, 2011 at 6:36 pm

    Great video, thanks for sharing Chase! This is one of the reasons why I love traveling so much – you get to see different cultures, talk to random people, and explore.

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