In keeping with this spirit to look beyond just the photography industry for insight and inspiration, please join me this Tuesday, August 16 at 11:00am Seattle time, as welcome #1 New York Times best-selling author Tim Ferriss (@tferriss) for another episode of chasejarvis LIVE.
Tim was Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People of 2007” and is on Forbes Magazine’s “Names You Need to Know in 2011″ list. His first book, The 4-Hour Workweek,
Who: You, Me, & a worldwide gathering of creative people
What: Q&A and LIVE photo lesson with NYT best-selling author Tim Ferriss
When: this Tuesday, August 16th at 11:00am Seattle time (2 pm NYC time or GMT -8)
Where: tune in to www.chasejarvis.com/live. It’s free and anyone can watch.
Among other things, we’ll specifically discuss:
_How to leave your worst clients and replace them with the coolest/most profitable ones
_How to outsource or eliminate all your least desirable tasks
_How to establish a better work/life balance
_How to attract book publishers
_How to trade a tired, long-haul career for short work bursts and frequent time off
_How these principles can guide so many other parts of your life (ala Tim’s second book)
AND…not only is Tim a genius entrepreneur & author, but he’s also a Guinness World Record holder, a National KickBoxing champion, and–you guessed it– he’s got the photography passion too. So after I squeeze outta him all the above info, plus get him to answer your questions via twitter (@chasejarvis, hastag #cjLIVE), and more, I’m going to give Tim a live photography lesson and then let HIM shoot MY portrait.
Tim’s never shot a real studio setup in his life, only a point and shoot camera, so I’m going to show him how to set up a full kit–seamless backdrop, studio lighting, pocket wizards, the camera and everything else–and then, he’s going to shoot MY portrait. Should be informative and…well…good for some laughs. So even if you’ve got all the business stuff locked in (which I doubt you do…) there’ll still be an informative photo segment with a few surprises.
***Lastly, for a little fun and to hype this show, we’ll be giving away a signed copy of each of Tim’s last two books, 4 Hour WorkWeek and 4 Hour Body, to the two people who send out the most interesting tweet that contains the URL (or short url) to THIS post AND hastag #cjLIVE, starting right now and ending at the beginning of the show on Tuesday. Enter as many times (tweets) as you want.
I can’t stand Tim Ferriss. The guy is so full of himself and reminds me of a smooth talking, know it all, sleezy car salesman. I’ve tried reading his book “4 Hour Work Week” and it’s filled with him bragging like a narcissist about how great he is. I feel like he may be the next Donald Trump in the making and not in a good way. I really like you Chase but I can’t and won’t be tuning in for anything that has to do with Mr. Ferriss. Good luck with the show, you have a lot more patience than I do!
Well @hance, you sound pretty opinionated about him, so I wont’ try to change your mind, but i’d be completely remiss in not saying that I think you must not actually know Tim. He’s not full of himself. He’s smart and articulate. And in fact he’s more hungry to gain knowledge and share it than almost anyone I know. Hope you reconsider and tune in.
I’ll second that. If he sounds proud of his accomplishments, he should be. He lives the kind of life that most of us can only dream of doing. He has the courage to actually go out and do it, instead of being too scared to try. If we all had half the guts that Tim did, we wouldn’t be stuck in jobs we hate and married to THINGS we don’t need.
I soooo wish I could watch it live, but unfortunately there’s no way that I can break away at that time. (sad face) I’m really really really really hoping that at least part of it will be available later to watch. I’d really love to see what Tim has to say about photography, given the fact he doesn’t really seem to favor offering services (vs products).
I never jumped on the 4-hour anything bandwagon, but I’m certainly on yours, Chase. I’ll be there.
I am looking forward to it, i loved 4-hour work week 🙂
Chase: This should be SUCH a good podcast/livecast/whatevercast… Tim is a great writer. A fantastic public speaker. And I’m in complete and awe of his ability to system-ize business, language learning, exercise, or just about anything that he sets his mind to.
As a quick aside, his new book — The Four Hour Body — is fantastic, and has really changed the way in which my wife and I approach diet and exercise.
Sounds like a great event, but I have issue with the phrase “Reinvent yourself” It is way overused and conveys the the wrong idea. There is nothing wrong with yourself that needs reinventing. You are you! What needs to be done is to stretch yourself and go beyond your comfort zone.