Chase Jarvis
Taking Risks to Achieve a Life You Love
Chase Jarvis is an award-winning artist, entrepreneur, and Emmy-nominated director, recognized as one of the most influential photographers of the past 20 years. He has shot global campaigns for Apple, Nike, and over 100 brands, and contributed to the Pulitzer Prize-winning NYT story Snowfall. He founded several startups, including Best Camera, Apple’s App of the Year, and CreativeLive, an online learning platform serving millions of creators, acquired by Fiverr in 2021. He is following up his bestselling book, Creative Calling, with his brand new book, Never Play it Safe, out October 8th, 2024.
Chase has done so many amazing things in his career and is living proof that taking risks and never playing it safe is a model with real value. We get into Chase’s career and some of the key aspects of this tactical guide to achieving the life you love. This conversation is for anyone looking to love the life you are living.
For more information on Chase, follow him on Instagram, and definitely pick up his new book, Never Play It Safe.
Points of interest in the episode:
04:25 Chase’s Background
06:12 Chase founded Creative Live in 2010 and sold it to Fiverr in 2021
09:55 Early on, Chase realized he was living the life that everybody else wanted for him: Sports
11:40 The moment Chase changed course to become a photographer
15:45 Taking risks
16:45 Safety is an illusion
19:36 The book is structured around all the ways Chase has screwed up
22:45 The backstory on writing Never Play It Safe
26:44 Chase says Never Play It Safe is the psychological version of Built to Move
27:25 Give a Damn
28:55 Chase built a career photographing the top athletes in the world: Serena Williams, Roger Federer, Travis Rice, Tony Hawk
41:38 This book is a very tactical guide around taking risks
42:48 Andrew Huberman says: “Attention is the distinguishing factor in success or failure in any endeavor”
44:05 Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation
46:20 Tim Ferriss said that the shared trait between all the people featured in Tools of Titans, was a focused practice of some kind
50:20 Constraint
51:41 Leaning in
55:52 Play is the engine of life
62:20 Pre-order Never Play if Safe – pre-ordering is one of the best ways to support the authors you love
63:56 “All the best stuff in life is on the other side of risk and fear and our comfort zone”
64:26 Chase’s socials
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