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This week, we focus on never playing it safe, minimum levels of stress, useful principles, powerful sentences from Carl Jung, and some wise words from General George C. Marshall. Also... CLICK HERE to read our USA Today Best-Selling book, The Score That Matters.

#618: Chase Jarvis - Never Play It Safe

​Chase Jarvis is a photographer, director, artist, and entrepreneur. He was the CEO of Creative Live from 2014 to 2022. He’s earned countless awards for his photography and creative work including a Pulitzer Prize for a New York Times story he contributed to. He’s the author of Creative Calling and Never Play It Safe. We discuss how to better listen to your intuition, why it's risky to play it safe, the 7 basic levers of life, and much more. You can also WATCH our conversation on YouTube.

Minimum Levels of Stress

Part of the reason today’s world can be petty and angry is because life is currently pretty good for a lot of people. There are no domestic wars. Unemployment is low. Household wealth is at an all-time high. Innovation is astounding. As the world improves, our threshold for complaining drops. In the absence of big problems, people shift their worries to smaller ones. In the absence of small problems, they focus on petty or even imaginary ones. "A healthy person has 1,000 wishes. A sick person has 1." CLICK HERE to read more.

Principles

Nabeel S. Qureshi has kept a Google Doc of his hard-won life lessons. He's finally sharing it publicly. CLICK HERE to read. A cursed fact of the world is that the most important life lessons you learn are the hardest to communicate to others. They always sound like clichés. In any case, these are a few things Nabeel has learned from experience.

17 Powerful Sentences That Will Change How You View The World

​17 Powerful Sentences from Carl Jung That Will Change How You View The World. A few examples: You are what you do, not what you say you'll do. The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you. Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge.

Wise Words...

“The time is always right to do what is right." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.​

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