What If Play Is Actually the Most Important Work You'll Ever Do?

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Chase Jarvis

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🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Hey friends, Chase here.

Ever feel like your life is all work and no you?

Emails. Deadlines. Chores. Repeat. Somewhere along the way, we traded play for productivity—and we’ve been tired ever since.

Why We Forget to Play

From a young age, we’re taught that play comes after the work is done. But here’s the catch: the work never ends. So we keep pushing joy to the sidelines.

Play Isn’t a Luxury—It’s a Lifeline

Play isn’t just fun. It fuels creativity, lowers stress, and helps us feel alive. It’s not the opposite of work—it’s what makes work meaningful.

What If Work Could Be Play?

What if you danced while doing dishes?
What if you made emails a game?
What if you stopped calling it “work” and started calling it “life”?

It’s not about changing what you do. It’s about changing how you see it.

You Were Born to Play

Play is your natural state. You don’t have to earn it—you just have to remember it.

So go ahead. Laugh more. Move your body. Get weird.

Play might just be the most important work you’ll ever do.

Until next time, keep it playful.

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by My Latest Book, Never Play It Safe.
0:05.5	Right now, if you do not have a copy of my latest book, I want you to listen to what Gary Vaynerchuk
0:10.7	said about my latest book. Building a life you love doesn't happen on accident. It's a process.
0:17.2	Few people know this process like Chase Jarvis does and never play it safe is the roadmap.
0:23.3	Or what Sophia Amaruso said.
0:26.0	This book is a powerful compass for embracing risk and creativity in all the aspects of your life.
0:32.3	Chase shows us how to step out of our comfort zones and become who we weren't meant to be. Here's a cool fact.
0:39.2	All of the best stuff in life is on the other side of your comfort zone. And never play
0:45.1	it safe is a blueprint. That's how I designed it. It's a blueprint to get you there reliably
0:50.8	over and over again. It's not an accident that this was a national bestseller on,
0:54.9	I think, four bestselling book lists. That's because it is a roadmap. It's a blueprint, right?
1:01.8	It's going to reshape how you think about attention, time, intuition, constraints, those things
1:06.0	that you feel like hold you back. If you're not playing enough, if you're working too much,
1:10.2	you're working in the wrong way, if failure seems too constant and you can't see what the benefits are, or if you don't
1:16.7	have the practices and the habits to help you achieve the extraordinary results that you seek,
1:22.4	this is the book. This is the book that I put three years of my life and its goal is to help you be more creative,
1:28.8	fulfilled, and successful in everything that you do. And if this hasn't convinced you or the blurbs
1:34.4	from Gary Vaynerchuk and Seth Godin and Sophia and Damon John from Shark Tank, then I get it.
1:40.0	There's a bunch of other reviews at Amazon or wherever you buy books, and I'd love it if you'd
1:44.7	pick up a copy of Never Play It Safe, a practical guide to freedom, creativity, and a life you love.
1:50.5	Now, let's get into the show.
1:57.4	Hey everybody, what's up? It's Chase. I want to get right down to brass tax for today's
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