Your Attention Is Being Stolen. Here's How to Get It Back.

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Chase Jarvis

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🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Hey friends, Chase here.

Ever feel like your mind is all over the place?

Emails. Notifications. News. Noise. We live in a world designed to hijack our attention, and it’s working.

Attention Is a Superpower

In a world this noisy, your ability to focus isn’t just helpful. It’s everything.

Viktor Frankl found purpose in the darkest of places by choosing where to direct his mind. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi discovered flow while surviving war by focusing on a single game of chess. Louis Zamperini endured torture by turning his attention toward faith and forgiveness.

These weren’t magic tricks. They were choices. Repeated. Intentional. Life-saving.

What You Focus On Becomes Your Life

Science backs it up. As Dr. Andrew Huberman says, “The ability to focus and direct one's attention is the distinguishing factor between those who will succeed and those who won’t.”

That’s not just about work or goals. That’s about everything. Your relationships. Your health. Your sense of self.

Because attention doesn’t just shape what you see. It shapes who you become.

Train Your Attention Like Your Life Depends on It

You don't have to escape to the mountains or delete every app on your phone. You just have to start noticing where your attention goes, and gently bring it back to what matters most.

Ask yourself:

What am I really focusing on right now?
Is it helping me or draining me?
What would happen if I chose differently?

Your attention is yours. Don’t give it away without a fight.

Until next time, stay focused and stay free.

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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.
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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
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1:34.4	from Gary Vaynerchuk and Seth Godin and Sophia and Damon John from Shark Tank, then I get it.
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1:50.6	Now let's get into the show.
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