Whenever Michael Jordan gets on the golf course and his friends ask the stakes of the game–how much money they’re betting against one another–rumor has it that his stock response is: “Whatever makes you nervous.”
That’s what you should bet on yourself, every time. Not what makes you comfortable, but what makes you nervous.
Your muscles get stronger by running, jumping, lifting weights, by stressing them out, by pushing them, not by sitting on the couch.
Mario Andretti said famously: “If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough”.
And the one-liners could go on and on… Point being that you’ve got to push your comfort level to grow. That goes for your photography, your filmmaking, your art, your vision, your business, your whatever.
You will not succeed if you do not take risks.
[thx for the flying shot martin gisborne!]
Hey Chase I think you are talking about pushing your boundaries for getting the shot. For me that would be photographing jumping out of a plane or climbing the tallest hotel in Dubai like Joe McNallymdid with the Empire State Building.
You annoying some adrenaline charged work in the future?
Cheers
Christian
Amazing to see how few people challenge you. Taking risks tends to take many forms, from physical safety to artistic license. Finding the balance, rather than going to extremes, is mastery.
Indeed balance is mastery, but doesn’t mastery come from first finding the edges of where your balance fails and then backing off? It’s unrealistic IMHO to think that you’ll find balance by immediately walking to the perfect point on the seesaw the very first time. Instead, i offer that t’s a series of over corrections that ultimately get you to where you need to be…
Buddha’s discourse on finding balance in the middle way using the tuning of a guitar as the metaphor is awesome
“if the string is too taught, it will snap, if too loose, it will not play”.
The point though is that one will not find or know balance if one does not pick up the guitar in the first place and attempt to tune it and probably break many strings in the process.
Taking a leap, with utmost faith in one’s higher purpose (or power) is also a form of mastery.
Keep on Keeping on Chase, thanks for your continuous encouragement!
I needed this … right now. Thanks Chase! <3