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The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Chase Jarvis: Creativity is a Birthright, Not a Gift

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2026

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Chase Jarvis, founder of CreativeLive and author of Creative Calling, discusses why creativity is a practical skill everyone possesses from birth that gets systematically suppressed by education and culture. He breaks down his IDEA framework for unlocking creative potential and building a life around the work you were meant to do.

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0:00.0

As you probably notice, this month we're bringing you our Life of Purpose series and revisiting

0:04.6

some of our most transformative episodes. Tune in to explore expert insights and practical

0:09.4

strategies on help, performance, and community well-being, all aimed at helping you achieve

0:14.4

personal and professional fulfillment. If you sign up for the newsletter, you'll not only get

0:18.5

recaps of the key ideas in each interview, but at the end of the series, you'll receive our free Life of Purpose ebook.

0:24.7

What you have to do is go to UnmistakableCreative.com slash Life Purpose.

0:28.1

Again, that's UnmistakableCreative.com slash Life Purpose.

0:32.0

Everyone is creative by nature.

0:34.2

And if you just ask any first grade class, who wants to come up to the front of the room and draw me a picture? How many hands goes up? Every single hand goes up. And then you ask the same group in sixth grade, half as many hands, the same group when they're seniors. And if you're lucky if two or three people, want to sort of stick their neck out. Now, that's a cultural thing. That it shows us that creativity is not something that's bestowed on us at birth. It's not

0:55.8

some magical fairy dust that some people receive and others don't. That creativity is a birthright.

1:01.4

Everyone has it by nature. In fact, we are creating machines as humans. So why negate that?

1:08.9

Why try and pretend that that doesn't exist?

1:11.8

Rather, let's lean into that and say that, okay, if we understand creativity is more than just art,

1:19.1

it's combining anything to make things new and useful.

1:21.6

It's the solution to every problem that we will ever know.

1:24.7

That creativity is a habit, not a skill.

1:30.7

Why wouldn't we train that? And what I'm trying to get us to do is lean into that, that it's not fickle or whimsical or naive to pursue the

1:34.9

thing that you love or, in fact, creativity, that it's actually the most practical thing that you

1:39.8

can pursue. I'm Sreeny Rao, and this is the Unmistakable Creative Podcast, where you get a window into

1:45.1

the stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds who started movements,

1:49.6

built thriving businesses, written bestselling books, and created insanely interesting art.

1:54.2

For more, check out our 500 episode archive at UnmistakableCreative.com.

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