What Does It Mean To Be Passionate? Chris Do Explains | Motivational Video for Designers & Creatives

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when you get student projects at school when somebody goes bananas and everybody shows up three comps three comps three coms 37 comps who's passionate that person and it's very evident I recently went to a class and I had said something Rude the instructor said do One logo and do one application and sure enough to the student One logo one application how many weeks have you guys worked on this and to my surprise they said 10 weeks you guys need to learn how to produce a lot more work in this time okay and then somebody said in defense we got a lot of other stuff going on oh all right I'll be careful right now I could have done the work that they did in 10 weeks and probably an hour and a half I'd be much much better at [Music] it why didn't one student only takes one person to do this to come in there you know what I did one logo but I did 55 versions of it and then I did this many applications cuz this project is I'm just really excited about it I want to have this deep conversation and show people what I can [Music] do cuz you know when I'm looking at your portfolio when you're done with school like in a few months I see it when I was going to Art Center this is uh over two decades ago the level of competition there with my fellow classmates was pretty intense now I'm not saying every student was as intense and maybe I was just super intense so I just wanted to be better than everybody else that was my thing and then when I could spot another student who's willing to battle with me in so to speak not literally but they would do more I'm like oh all right next week okay I see where this is going to go and it's totally unspoken I don't want to be embarrassed and the amount of work I'm willing to put in the amount of ideas of thorough thoroughness of the exploration is where I will do it so think about that we have 13-year-old 15year old kids watching the show that are already much better hand lettering artists than many of us in this room and believe it or not when somebody's 16 years old and they tell me they've been freelancing for 3 years I think that's bananas and then I see the work I'm like okay I can see that I can see that now [Music]