Chase the dream

Chase the Dream

Persistence is the key to achieving anything that is worthwhile. Chase and Tim talk about everything it takes from being a photographer to launching a book. This video is perfectly released post the massive success of The 4 Hour Work Week launched essentially from nowhere by Tim. 

If you have ever had an idea, discovered your passion or thought of a great business plan and not carried it through then you should chill out and watch this.  

Tim explains how he defined exact Goals and how this helped him achieve exactly what he wanted. They both talk about fear in its different forms and how they affect our actions or more often than not Inaction.

This video perfectly defines what can be achieved with persistence.

Enjoy!

Things of note:

Chase Jarvis:

The Best Camera Is The One Thats With You (2009)

Seattle 100 (2010)

http://www.chasejarvis.com/

Timothy Ferris:

The 4 Hour Work Week

The 4 Hour Body

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/ 

Pretending you are someone who can do it:

Don't think you can succeed without going to university? Watch Neil Gaiman author of The Sandman, American gods and Stardust commencement 2012 speech to know how to do it!

                 

Neil Gaiman didn't go to university to learn how to write, he did something different, he wrote. He refers to the arts during his speech but what he says has truth in everything and everyone.

He talks of success and failure, of doing what you want to do and doing what you have to do, and of doing what only you can do.

"let go and enjoy the ride"

There are shining examples of successful people in all fields of life who did not go to university and and those that did. From Chase Jarvis (Photographer) to Richard Branson (Chairman of Virgin Group). If you have a passion then do it.

"What's it like to fly a Harrier"                                                   

Well this is the site, at least the beginning of the beginning of the thought of a site that I envisaged over a year ago.


My story isn't unlike an others particularly. I Spent almost the entirety of youth to young adulthood wondering what the hell I was supposed to be doing, who I was supposed to be and what the hell the whole point of it was anyway. 


Then there was a great happening. Something big. It changed everything. 


When I finally realised I had a plan, or that I should at least create a plan for my life it made be realise that that was exactly what had been missing. 


I, like everyone else I know spent their entire childhood being indoctrinated. We were told that if we worked hard,revised and got good marks that one day, everything would be good. We would become happy, highly respected members of a future society with no worries and a life of luxury. 


The main problem with this was that we were told this by two respected members of society, teachers and career advisers.


Now if I wanted to be a teacher I don't think I would be being particularly daring asking a teacher -"Hey Mr/Mrs/Miss teacher person thingy, what's it like being a teacher then?" and they may respond with "great, i love the hours" or "great, its long hours" or "great, kill me know" but the point is that they would know what its like to become a teacher.


I don't think it would come as a huge surprise though if I were to say that i among others received most insightful opinions on everything from working for the RAF to engineering apprenticeships from people who had spent the last 5 years of their life a career advisor. 

I'm pretty sure a chefs never flown a Harrier and a Pilots never earned a Michelin Star.

So here I endeavour to give real life accounts through interviews and videos with young people at the forefront of their chosen careers, to find out for the masses.

"What's it like to fly a Harrier"