Ep. 274 | The Power of Discomfort: Chris Do on Why Obstacles are a Gift & Avoiding Comfort is the Key to Competing and Succeeding in Any Industry
Chris Do is an Emmy award-winning designer, director, CEO, and Chief Strategist of Blind and the founder of The Futura who prides himself as a self-described loud introvert, middle child, and recovering graphic designer. In this episode, Chris encourages everyone to grow by reframing what we perceive as obstacles, how to max out our reps in curiosity and resiliency, eliminating our range to beat the competition, relearning to not play it safe, avoiding comfort, and leaning into courage to position ourselves for success.
ABOUT Chris Do
Chris Do is a self described loud introvert, recovering graphic designer, middle child, serial entrepreneur, Emmy award-winning director, educator and founder of The Futur. He has an audacious mission of teaching one billion people how to make a living doing what they love.
Mr. Do has given talks and conducted workshops on: Negotiations, Pricing Strategies, Branding, Typography, and Content Marketing. He has served: as the chairman of the board for the SPJA, advisor to Saleshood, advisory board member for AIGA/LA, Emmys Motion & Title Design Peer Group, Otis Board of Governors, Santa Monica College and Woodbury University.
He has taught Sequential design for over 15 years at ArtCenter and Otis College of Art and Design. Additionally, he has lectured all over the world including: EO GLCx, Pinterest, Dribble, AIGA National Design Conference, Adobe MAX, Birmingham Design Festival, Awwwards New York/San Francisco/Amsterdam, AIGA Miami, The Design Conference Brisbane, Hulu, Creative South, Digital Design Days Milan/Geneva, Lu Xun Academy Fine Art Dalian, Motion Conference Santa Fe, VMA Design Conference, MIT Boston, Bend Design Conference, Graphika Manila, Create Philippines, Rise Up Summit Cairo, RGD Design Thinkers Toronto, California Institute of the Arts, LA Art Institute, UCLA, MGLA, Cal State Los Angeles/ Northridge/Dominguez Hills, Post Production World, Adobe Video World and San Diego University.
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