Earn Your Happy Increase Risk Tolerance and Embrace Failure as Part of the Formula for Success with Chase Jarvis
Oct 9, 2024
Chase Jarvis, an award-winning photographer, director, and entrepreneur, shares insights from his book 'Never Play It Safe.' He emphasizes how embracing failure is essential for growth and success. The conversation explores the importance of building risk tolerance, differentiating fear from intuition, and viewing failures as learning opportunities. Jarvis also recounts a pivotal lesson from Richard Branson on taking calculated risks, encouraging listeners to leap into discomfort for transformative gains in both life and business.
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Best Things Lie Beyond Comfort
- Chase Jarvis argues the best things in life lie beyond comfort, fear, and risk.
- He says culture trains us to play it safe instead of giving a roadmap to reach those rewards.
Teacher Redirected His Creative Path
- In second grade Ms. Kelly told Chase he wasn't creative and should stick to sports, which led him to suppress creative pursuits.
- That redirection later landed him on a soccer scholarship despite entrepreneurial impulses.
Mistakes Are Required Experiments
- Chase says betraying yourself and making mistakes are required to learn who you truly are.
- He reframes experiments and failures as necessary tiny experiments that reveal character and preferences.