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  • Never Play It Safe

  • A Practical Guide to Freedom, Creativity, and a Life You Love
  • By: Chase Jarvis
  • Narrated by: Chase Jarvis
  • Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (14 ratings)

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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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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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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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Privileged man regurgitates other people’s work

I really wanted to like this. The premise is good and the author interviewed well on Rich Roll’s podcast. But it is honestly just not good.
It’s basically mid-level writing that briefly references a lot of other people’s well-researched and published insights (e.g., Man’s Search for Meaning, the concept of Flow, failure as a good thing… you get the idea) interspersed with an excessive amount of his humble bragging and a few overly long anecdotes about other people.
If you don’t listen to health & wellness podcasts or read any books or articles on the subject, you may get something out of this. If you do, you’ve heard all of this before. Instead, I’d invest in a book written by someone who actually has their own ideas.

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