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Chase Jarvis's book recommendations
Key facts
- Chase Jarvis has recommended or discussed 5 books on podcasts, as of June 24, 2025.
- Chase Jarvis has talked about books on 2 podcasts, as of June 24, 2025.
- Those books came up in 3 episodes, as of June 24, 2025.
- The 3 books Chase Jarvis has mentioned in the most episodes, as of June 24, 2025: Play It Away, The Obstacle Is the Way and The War of Art.
- The latest episode with a book mention from Chase Jarvis aired on June 24, 2025.
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Across 2 podcasts. Every show Chase Jarvis appears on, in one place, not just one.
Chase Jarvis is an American photographer, director, artist, and entrepreneur who served as the chief executive officer of CreativeLive from April 2014 until July 2022. During podcast appearances, Jarvis has frequently discussed various books that align with themes of creativity, mindset, and overcoming mental blocks. On The Jordan Harbinger Show, he referenced Timothy Ferriss's Tools of Titans, noting that he was personally featured in the book. In the same discussion, he mentioned Ryan Holiday's The Obstacle Is the Way to illustrate a stoic principle regarding how to handle difficulties. While appearing on The Rich Roll Podcast, Jarvis brought up Maria Semple's Where'd You Go, Bernadette to highlight the negative consequences of repressing creative impulses, and he discussed Charlie Hoehn's Play It Away to demonstrate how incorporating simple daily play can foster creativity. Additionally, during another episode of The Jordan Harbinger Show, he referenced Steven Pressfield's The War of Art when talking about the concept of resistance and explaining that the best things in life often lie on the other side of comfort.
Books Chase Jarvis recommended or discussed
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Play It Away
Discussed“there's a book called play it away by a guy named Charlie hone Charlie I know Charlie yeah great author used to work closely with Tim Ferriss just a lovely human and in his book play it away he literally talks about finding time to play every day”
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The Obstacle Is the Way
Discussed“I can go back to the obstacle is the way. It's a very, you know, similar there's a stoic principle about that.”
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The War of Art
Discussed“Steven Pressfield Klee talks about this in the war of art these resistance and I'm saying that the best stuff in life is on the other side of comfort”
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Tools of Titans
Discussed“I mentioned Tim earlier from his one of his books tools for titans it just basically featured a bunch of people that he'd interviewed at his podcast I was in that book...”
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Discussed“the best example that I've seen lately of this brené Brown notion is the movie in the book where'd you go Bernadette have you seen this yet”
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Books by Chase Jarvis
Appearances
Other mentions (7: passing, ad reads, own books)
“So, this is a book about um accessing all of the best stuff in life, which is on the other side of your comfort zone, on the other side of fear, on the other side of risk.”
“And my book Never Play It Safe is is uh the goal of it is to awaken you to this and give you a very handful a very small handful set of very very basic tools that can plug you back into what I call all the best stuff in life.”
“And the irony is the title of the book, Never Play It Safe, came in that moment.”
“the book is called never play it safe for a reason”
“and in the beginning of never play it safe I say look we're not talking about seat belts and sunscreen”
“I'm telling you man, I hate to be that dude talking about his book, but there’s a whole chapter about that—it’s the constraints chapter.”
“yeah i mean you know my last book was called creative calling and that's that calling that is out that is we're not quite sure what but it is it does take a belief and a trust”