brick arella here yesterday I got a ton of comments about how I became a professional
Street photographer and a lot of people want to know they're like I'm introverted I'm scared
how do I go out there and do it I want to take pictures of people but I feel weird or scared I
just don't know how to get over this fear what do I do don't worry in this video I got you covered
cuz I'm going to give you the one mindset shift that changed everything for me and believe it or
not I'm actually an introvert and completely scared but I overcame that I'm going to share
with you today that one mindset shift that really changed everything and made a massive difference
in my street photography career and allowed me to approach people without any hesitation
so I'm going to show you that one thing so you can take pictures of anyone you want and start
street photography today so I'm going to share my story with you and I think you can relate to
this because I was really scared I would go out and I would walk around my neighborhood I would
walk around in the city where I live and I would just have my camera out but never take a picture
of anybody I would take a picture of maybe like a duck or like a pigeon or maybe a building but
I really wanted to photograph people I thought that was really cool and I just couldn't do it
I would just get too scared and then I would go home and just be depressed about it and then
put away my camera for a while and then a week or two would go by and then I would go out there and
the same thing would happen this kept repeating itself over and over so at the time this started
spilling over into all of my life I was just very passive was scared to go out there wasn't meeting
many new people and as a whole my life wasn't really improving and then something happened
that totally shifted everything so this one mind shift not only changed my street photography but
it kind of changed my entire life and at the time I was studying to be a teacher I was getting my
Masters in Education and I was going to teach English as a second language and I was going
to graduate midyear but in order to get a job they only hired the beginning of the year so if
I wanted to get a job I had to go at the end of that calendar school year so instead of making a
resume I made a big folder and I got it ready I had a cover letter resume student work all this
stuff in it and I went to two schools in 2 days and I talked to one of my friends in the master's
program who had already got hired for a job and he asked me he said hey how how'd it go Brett
and I told him it went pretty good I went to two schools and as soon as I said that I could hear
his voice of disapproval he's like Brett you can do a lot better than that you need to go
to at least seven or eight schools so he kind of Pumped me up he gave me the speech the next
day instead of being about going to one or two schools I decided to go to as many schools as
I can forget about researching forget about doing all this stuff just go go out there and go to all
these schools so I did that and I ended up going to 12 different schools I got two job offers and
I got hired and my financial situation and my future basically changed and at the time I was
trying to do street photography and I thought to myself wait a minute this work with the schools
let me try to use this for street photography as well so my goal was to approach as many people as
I could and don't worry whether they said yes or no so it wasn't about the result it was just about
the action taken so in my mind I made this this up and I told myself look Brett you need to get five
rejections today if you get five rejections today you're going to get a reward so for me I love food
so I gave myself a reward of a nice dinner so I started simple I went to a basketball court and
I approached five people because I like basketball it's easy for me to approach them try to find an
activity an area or someone who you have a common interest cuz that will help you approach them then
after basketball I just went to the streets and I did the same thing and I told my friend riberto
and he was so happy he was so pumped up for me and then I just kept doing it every day like how many
rejections can I get and believe it or not when I had that mindset I actually didn't get that many
rejections it was kind of crazy in the beginning obviously I did get some but then I realized it
wasn't the people who were saying no is really I was saying no to myself that mindset shift
of not worrying about the result and trying to get as many rejections as I could totally
changed everything even today I don't really get nervous but I get maybe I'm not really in the mood
for it so I I pump myself up and I almost make it like a game I say Brett how many rejections
can you get today so I hope this helps you change your mindset and just start small try to get one
rejection today and tomorrow if you get one rejection try to get two rejections and try
to get three rejections and it's like a game and if you don't get a rejection if someone actually
says yes and you're able to take their picture then that's even better obviously cuz that's the
whole goal but it's not the goal for what you're doing at first the whole goal is just to approach
the person so in order to approach the person get that rejection so in this video I showed you this
one mindset shift that really dramatically had an impact for me but this is really just the tip
of the iceberg of what I can show you if you're an introvert and scared of approaching people there's
so many little tricks that I've learned over the years that made a massive difference for taking
pictures with people and that's why I made a video program called Street photographer Pro
where I teach you all my tricks like the one I share today but go into much greater detail step
by step so that you can go from someone like me scared to death introvert to being able to
approach people without any hesitation or fear and in 2 days I'm going to release that course
on this date so stay tuned you're not going to want to miss it if you didn't watch the video
before about my photographer Journey you can watch that over here and get out there and [Music] shoot