Never Play It Safe

A Practical Guide to Freedom, Creativity, and a Life You Love

De: Chase Jarvis

Narrado por: Chase Jarvis

What if your biggest risk in life is playing it safe?

In Never Play It Safe, bestselling author, award-winning photographer, and founder of CreativeLive, Chase Jarvis, reveals that safety is an illusion—a comforting lie that’s holding you back from true fulfillment and extraordinary success.

Discover the Bold Path to Your Most Authentic Life

Chase Jarvis has spent years in deep conversation with the world’s top entrepreneurs, artists, athletes, and performers, uncovering the real secrets to living boldly and authentically. Through these powerful insights and his own transformative experiences, he invites you to shatter the dangerous comfort of the safe path and unlock your full potential.

Inside, you'll discover:

• Why ""playing it safe"" is the riskiest move you can make
• How to break free from the toxic voices in your head holding you back
• The hidden ""attention hijackers"" silently sabotaging your dreams
• The surprising link between playfulness and peak performance in any field
• Practical techniques to train your attention and unlock your potential
• Real-life stories of world-class performers who dared to live boldly

Are You Ready to Break Free?

If you’re tired of playing small, feeling stuck, or living in fear, it’s time to reclaim the playful, courageous part of yourself that’s been waiting to shine. Never Play It Safe will equip you with the tools, insights, and inspiration to take bold action and create the life of your dreams.

Your Life is the Ultimate Creative Act—Don’t Settle for Safety.

The Rescue

More than words of motivation or inspiration, this book shines a welcomed light into the tiniest of dark corners, revealing the Path up and out. The Soul, extending a Ladder to climb into the Light.

Honest reflections and thoughts that helped the author.

I really was hoping this book would help me, but it may have helped the author more than anyone. Maybe it will help later after another pass? Good books are capable of lingering towards inspiration if it’s any good. This book is advice well told, but it gives reflections more than direction, which is what an eager reader looks for when looking for books like this. To be fair, it’s possible that no book on how to make your life better, or how to get unstuck in life or career, truly helps. At its best, it can bring about a conversation in you, but the choices are your own and it won’t give you the map you hoped for. This is merely a book on what helped Chase, the author, and the reader is glad Chase found himself. But now that the reading is over and Chase’s light has twisted into smoke, the reader, pleased for Chase, is left in the dark.

Just what I needed to hear

Chase Jarvis' style of storytelling and coaching has always resonated with me. He pulls in wisdom from wildly varied sources, cites data from far reaching disciplines, then synthesizes and shares the information in an easy to understand, aspirational way that makes it easy to apply to your own life. Never Play It Safe will definitely be on my short-list of books to regularly re-read. Thanks Chase!

Great for entrepreneurs taking the next step!

I love how listening to this confirmed I was doing a lot of things right by listening to my gut. It’s so easy to allow societal pressure to make you feel like you just need to work. This book allows you to think maybe that path isn’t right and maybe adjust your attention. Definitely recommend this book!

Good book - nothing groundbreaking here!!

It was good listen for some inspiration!! The tools and leverage mentioned are from the same subset you will get on this theme anywhere on internet!!

Meh

Not sure what to do with this. Don’t feel a need to listen to it again, though he insists you should.

Motivational with a slice of Cali-lib

Pretty good message.
But be prepared for some left-leaning point of view.

For example, as a conservative myself, I feel that EM's purchase of Twitter has provide a voice for 60%++ of Americans where they were loosing representation all together in "leftest-captured media."
Chase offhandedly describes that purchase as a billionaire just wanting more attention. While I don't know enough to argue that aspect, I can certainly argue that providing at least one major social media channel outside the control of "corporate-tech-Democratic" machine is "American" in the most positive meaning of the word in a critical time where we need to hear more than the state-determined narrative. It was also the opposite of playing it safe. Non?

Simply the best I’ve ever read/listened to.

I have read and listened to so many books about business and social emotional well being. This book combined both for me as I try to expand the impact I want STRIVE tlc to have and taking care of my own freedom and also trying to be a good wife, mom, daughter, sister, aunt, and friend. Thank you for writing this book. I am so grateful that you did! I got so many tangible ideas I’m already implementing…30 day challenge as I sit on my deck drinking coffee. I will listen to this one again, which I have not done with any other book. Thank you also for reading it. Your voice with your writing made it so engaging.

Advice and strategy to pursue your potential

Main points of the book 'Never Play It Safe' by Chase Jarvis:
If you 'play it safe', which means not taking risks, you will not achieve your potential (not even close) and leave you unfulfilled. Playing it safe generally has you ignoring your true purpose, not pursuing your passion. Playing it safe is about fear, so you never leave your comfort zone. If you 'Never Play It Safe', you use your abilities and experiences (your tools) to pursue what you want and how you want to be, to fulfill your potential, to be happy with your life. Along this path it is important to get in touch with and not ignore your intuition. The book has seven chapters which present 7 concepts to adopt in order to live boldly, not succumb to self-limiting fear, and not succumb to other's opinions of what we should or should not do or be.

1. Attention - the ability to focus your attention is the main key to success. Mediation is a recommended practice to train your brain to focus. Mindfulness is a key to attention focus - taking time to be present in the moment rather than constantly distracted is fundamental to attention focus.
2. Time - we make time for what is important. Be intentional with your time as well as your attention.
3. Intuition. - be still, be quiet, listen to and trust your intuition. Feel the alignment that comes with your intuition - inner peace.
4. Constraints - Constrain to re-train. Constrain your focus to be specific; constrain your ideation process. Introduce new constraints, self-imposed constraints. We default first to using prior experience, then to what we have seen before, as our default thinking. However, if we discard the default constraints and put in task specific constraints, together with resource constraints. we can limit the breadth of considerations and focus on depth. Chase Jarvis lists 4 types of constraints: Self-imposed constraints like time boxing, External constraints, perceived constraints, and environmental constraints
5. Play - spending time playing is critically important for our overall health, especially mental health, and our creativity.
6. Failure - Failure is key to progress and growth. We grow more from what we learn through failure than from success. Don't be afraid to fail, and when failure happens study it in detail to learn as much as you can from each failure, then apply the learnings to your next endeavor.
7. Practice - intentional practice is what is important, not just repetitiveness. Focus on the basics - you can't make extraordinary achievements without having the basics so well practiced that they are second nature.

Exercise to get started: Every day for 30 days write down what you want and how you want to be. Refine it as you go. Then work on strategy and planning to start pursuing your passion.

Masterpiece

Chase, thank you for not playing it safe. The insight, courage and humble wisdom shared in this book is a gift to the world. It stands shoulder to shoulder with masterpieces like Steven Pressfield’s ‘The War of Art”, and ‘The Creative Act’, by Rick Ruben. 5/5 Stars and a slow clap.