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Never Play It Safe

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

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Never Play It Safe

By: Chase Jarvis
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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
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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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Meh

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

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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.

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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!

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Solid

Good one to make you pause, re-evaluate and make a plan for your future. I always appreciate Chase and his POV.

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A nice reminder to not accept midiocre

I like the easy to read writing style. As a reader of many self help books, I did not learn a lot of new things, but it was filled with a lot of great reminders and examples of how to live an outstanding life.

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Too Slow and General

I bought this book after hearing a couple of awesome podcast episodes with Chase. Honestly, it didn’t seem like there was much more to the book than the interviews on podcasts could tell you. The title is good, but after a couple of hours without any real concrete steps to actually make a change in life I pressed stop for good. Maybe if you are a photographer or have some other skill that can earn big money it would help, but if you are lost and not sure what to do next it doesn’t help much at all. Sorry.

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