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Never Play It Safe
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Never Play It Safe

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

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Playing it safe can hold you back from personal growth and creativity. This book challenges conventional thinking, encouraging you to embrace uncertainty, take risks, and unlock your full potential. Through practical tools—like trusting intuition, redefining failure, and making space for play—it offers a blueprint for designing a bold and fulfilling life.


Why It Matters

Too many people settle for comfort over growth, avoiding risks that could lead to meaningful change. This book provides a roadmap to break free from fear-based decisions, build confidence, and cultivate a mindset that prioritizes creativity and authenticity.

By applying these lessons, business leaders and creatives alike can take ownership of their lives, make bolder choices, and achieve lasting fulfillment.

Impact & Outcome

  • Develop the confidence to take meaningful risks

  • Cultivate creativity by embracing play and constraints

  • Learn to view failure as a stepping stone to success

  • Master the ability to focus attention on what truly matters

Who is it for

  • Aspiring Creatives: Want to turn ideas into action and build a fulfilling career.

  • Entrepreneurs & Leaders: Need to embrace uncertainty and innovation in business.

  • Anyone Feeling Stuck: Looking for ways to break free from fear and routine.

About the Author

Chase Jarvis is a celebrated photographer, entrepreneur, and founder of CreativeLive, an online education platform for creatives. His work blends artistry with business insight, empowering individuals to harness their creativity. He previously wrote Creative Calling, a bestseller on unlocking creative potential.


Break free from fear, embrace bold choices, and design your best life.

Most people make choices based on fear, habit, or societal expectations, leading to stagnation and dissatisfaction. The key to a fulfilling life isn’t avoiding failure—it’s using the right tools to push past limitations and create opportunities. This book introduces seven core levers—Attention, Time, Intuition, Constraints, Play, Failure, and Practice—that can shift your mindset and unlock your potential.

Attention: The superpower that shapes your life

Your focus determines your reality.

The average person checks their phone 144 times a day, constantly distracted. Instead of letting the world pull your attention in every direction, take control of where you direct your focus. By training your attention, you move from a reactive life to an intentional one.

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