Elana Rudick

Yeah, I don't think it's counterproductive necessarily to our creation of things.

But to me, thinking and execution of ideas are two very different things.

So I think that's what we need to spend more time as creatives doing.

And that's what I'm going to be advocating for in my talk in Vancouver is that we need to be slowing down and spending that time

thinking things through and what are we making because it's so fast and easy now and it's getting faster and easier to make things so what's going to set us apart is how we think how we express ourself and really spending more time slowing down on the idea part because we're going to be expedited on the execution part

I think back to when I got my first job, I got it because I had a different business card and I tried something new and different that was memorable.

There was a lot of people that were vying for this job.

And at the time, I don't know if I mentioned this to you before, but I had made my CV as a chocolate bar wrapper.

So I was walking around with chocolate bars and that was my CV that I'd put on their desk of the hiring managers.

And that's the first kind of time I did something, I would say, like a little gimmicky like that, which is why I hesitate towards scents of business cards, because I know what that actually looks like when you're on a bus to an interview and it's hot and you're trying not to get your chocolate bar CV to melt.

I once showed up to an interview.

Thank God I had a spare copy because it was just like a melted chocolate in my bag.

It was awful.

But that's how I got my first job because the hiring manager was hungry.

She was doing a day of interviews and then she ate my CV and called me and she said, listen, I feel bad for not hiring you.

I just ate your CV.

That's how I was different then.

And I think that's always how I've gotten jobs is by...

stepping outside my comfort zone to just try something different and not be afraid to do that.

So yeah, I think daring, anytime you're daring something, for me, it implies trying something different or at least different for you, something outside of your comfort zone.