Never Play It Safe

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

De: Chase Jarvis

Narrado por: Chase Jarvis

Bestselling author and award-winning photographer Chase Jarvis argues that we don’t need gimmicky new life hacks or “productivity” gadgets; we already have what what’s necessary—all we need is to learn to leverage it.

Photographer, entrepreneur, and bestselling author, Chase Jarvis has collaborated with some of the world’s most successful athletes, entrepreneurs, performers, and artists. What’s the secret to a good life? he’s asked them. Is it having enough money in the bank? Chasing the right dream? Surrounding themselves with the right people? What are the secrets not just of success but of fulfillment?

In Never Play It Safe, Jarvis reveals the surprising answer: It’s not a new gadget, technique, or life-hack. It’s something much simpler. Instead of striving for external validation, the key is to look inside and leverage the tools already available to every single one of us.

By digging deep into the seven essential levers, Jarvis shows you how to get honest with yourself, unleash your own creativity, and build the life you’ve always wanted. Filled with stories and insights from some of the world’s top performers and thought leaders, including the author himself, Never Play It Safe will reshape how you think about attention, time, intuition, constraints, play, work, failure, and practice to help you achieve extraordinary results and become more creative, fulfilled, and successful every day.

©2024 Chase Jarvis (P)2024 HarperCollins Publishers

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.

Meh

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

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!!

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.

So Much Food for Thought!

I’ve been a long time listener of Chase Jarvis Live and I loved “Creative Calling.” I was so excited about your new book (and especially to have the Audible version in your own voice!). This is a book I will be listening to over and over and I’m sure I will get new takeaways each time. I really struggle with self-doubt with creative endeavors and in my personal life and I finished yesterday and already put myself out there with something personally and it worked out better than expected. I do play it safe and I’m tired of getting in my own way! I love how you weave together examples from your own life, history, and previous podcast guests! You’ve had SOOOOO many amazing experts sometimes I forget how impactful some of them were to me. Thank you for your vulnerability and your willingness to be such a champion for others! Here’s to the creatives!

A good multi person biography

Mainly a biography of several other people's experiences. It a lot new. Got to be hard to finish.

Lessons from Chase Jarvis

Another book by Chase Jarvis with lots of quotes, references to historical figures and life lessons from his own experiences in life, work and play.