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Episode 433: The Perils of Playing it Safe with Chase Jarvis

What a joy to have Chase Jarvis (@chasejarvis) back on the show. He is the author of Creative Calling, and his second book is Never Play It Safe: A Practical Guide to Freedom, Creativity, and a Life You Love (Harper Business). It’s available wherever you buy books, and if you head to https://chasejarvis.com/never-play-it-safe/ you can get some bonus materials. Trust me. You’ll want them.

Chase was the founder of the pioneering online learning platform Creative Live. He sold the company, and that catalyzed an entirely uncertain path. The book tracks that journey as he embodies the message at the core of the book that playing it safe is most dangerous thing we can do … creatively speaking. Not, you know, cycling without a helmet or courting disaster down a dark alley.

A Riff on Success featuring AC Shilton

By Brendan O’Meara

To get over jealousy and the malicious feeling towards the other who always makes it feel like they’re winning, while your stuck knee-deep in the swamp, you can take perhaps the greatest piece of wisdom out of Chase Jarvis’ Creative Calling.

He writes about the skate culture he grew up around, “Nailing an ollie is essential for doing more advanced tricks, so if you can’t learn it you’re stuck. Luckily for me, it was easy to ask for help in a community like that one. … There’s a sense that when one person succeeds, the whole community wins together.”

And so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that maybe the best way to get over these toxic feelings is to feel buoyed by what is possible, that it isn’t zero sum.

The freelance writer A.C. Shilton echoed this very sentiment saying:

Somebody else’s success does not really take away from your own. Yes, there are limited bylines, I should be using their success to push myself to be better. Right? So that doesn’t mean that I haven’t silenced the occasional person on Twitter who is winning at all things all the time and I need a break.
From Episode 171 of CNF.

It isn’t that somebody else had a win and you lost. It should be, ‘Oh, that person had a win, so that means I can too, so long as I work hard and maybe have a little luck on my side.’

And it echoes back to the skate culture: If you learn a new trick, we all win. So if you get that coveted by-line in The New York, we win as a result.

Good on ya, friend, nice trick.

Create without Judgement with Chase Jarvis

Chase Jarvis shares some wisdom about creating without judgement, from his excellent book, Creative Calling.

Let me know what you think! Twitter @CNFPod.

Episode 169: Chase Jarvis — Discover Your Creative Calling

Chase Jarvis, author of *Creative Calling.*

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By Brendan O’Meara

Can you believe it? Chase Jarvis (@chasejarvis) is here! He’s here to talk about his incredible new book Creative Calling: Establish a Daily Practice, Infuse Your World with Meaning, and Succeed in Life + Work.

I can’t recommend it enough. Do yourself and a friend a favor and buy this book. You might want to listen and subscribe to his great podcast too, Chase Jarvis Live Show. He’s been doing this for ten+ years. Amazing stuff.

He made his bones as a photographer and might be most known for (these days) for founding Creative Live, the great online learning platform. I’ve purchased several classes that have helped me immensely.

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You’re going to love how Chase went about writing this book as we break open the pinata of what makes this book — and Chase — so special.

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