We were lucky to catch up with Andrew Vogt recently and have shared our conversation below.
Hi Andrew, thanks for sharing your insights with our community today. Part of your success, no doubt, is due to your work ethic and so we’d love if you could open up about where you got your work ethic from?
My family and recognizing that what I get to do is awesome is where I get my work ethic from.
My father would work over 60 hours a week on average, and would still make time to see the three of us. He became an anesthesiologist despite the significant odds stacked against him.
My grandmother came here from Chile by herself with four kids, worked multiple jobs to provide for them.
Getting to do what I love is a huge incentive to keep going even when I don’t feel like it somedays.
Thanks, so before we move on maybe you can share a bit more about yourself?
Getting to create compelling visuals with awesome people is pretty much the gist of what I do.
Meeting amazing people, and helping them grow through my video/photo skill sets is the best part of what I do.
I recently did a videography booking at the Villain Arts convention for an artist named Jordi Pla
Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?
1. Communication skills
Being in this field you have to learn how to communicate effectively, or you won’t be getting book for anything.
This is a skillset that has significantly improved for since to be blunt it definitely had too.
No matter what field you are in Communication skills is definitely something to keep improving on. Constantly aiming to grow my communication skills as well.
2. Improvisation & Ingenuity
Sometimes shit just goes sideways, and you to macgyver your way to into making it workout.
Thinking on the fly is definitely a crucial ability in many aspects of life.
Ingenuity:
Creating new methods of doing anything especially when it becomes a better solution to a clients problem(s) or your problem(s) or even a problem for both is definitely a worth solid method.
3. Pacing
A more technical one niched down skill pertaining to my field.
Is learning how to pace videos where it just flows, gets people to start watching, and retains there attention throughout is definitely a skill worth investing in.
Definitely improve communication skills, think out side the box, always stay learning, and learn how to make real solid connections with people
Before we go, any advice you can share with people who are feeling overwhelmed?
If overwhelmed by a complex project:
Break things down into the smallest of steps as small as possible like tiny super tiny, even tinier than that
Turn those tiny steps into a checklist.
Start checking off things
You’ll start to realize that it’s not as complex as you might’ve thought
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Overwhelmed by something in your personal life:
Definitely talk to someone as needed it’s always a good thing to do.
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Positive coping mechanisms
Control your habits:
An example If you want to stop smoking then you’ll have replace the smoking with something else
Breath work is vastly underrated
There are a lot of strategies, but the best thing in my eyes is to recognize that you are overwhelmed and learn to manage it early, so it easier to manage.
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