Jason Naylor: The Psychology of Color and Why Bright Hues Unlock Positivity, Memory, and Human Connection

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Jason Naylor, artist and author of Live Life Colorfully, shares how growing up as the second of seven children in a Mormon family in Salt Lake City shaped his caretaker personality and his eventual escape to New York where he discovered creative liberation. Naylor reveals the symbiotic relationship between color and messaging in his work—the more positive and uplifting his messages became, the more color naturally emerged because he couldn't visualize kindness without bright hues. Drawing from color theory and neuroscience, he explains how yellow triggers hunger, why fast food brands use red and yellow strategically, how bright saturated colors ignite short-term memory while muted colors remain in long-term memory, and why a woman in a red dress commands attention not just culturally but neurologically. Naylor explores how color impacts space design, fashion choices, and personal presence, arguing that the right color is not about inherent qualities but about how confidently you wear it and how it makes you feel.

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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 LifePurpose. Again, that's
0:28.9	unmistakablecreative.com slash life purpose.
0:36.2	I'm Sreeny Rao, and this is the Unmistakable Creative Podcast, where you get a window into the stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds who started movements, built thriving businesses, written bestselling books, and created insanely interesting art.
0:49.6	For more, check out our 500 episode archive at UnmistakableCreative.com.
0:57.0	Jason, welcome to the Unmistakable Creative.
0:58.7	Thanks for taking the time to join us.
1:00.9	Thanks for having me.
1:01.7	I'm so happy to be here.
1:03.3	Yeah, it is my pleasure to have you here.
1:04.7	So I actually found out about your work by way of your publicist to sent me your book,
1:09.0	Live Life Colorfully, which I absolutely
1:11.7	loved because, as I was saying, before we hit record here, it was like a combination of a coffee
1:16.8	table book with insightful psychology on how color adds to our lives. But before we get into all
1:24.5	of that, I want to start by asking what might seem like a very odd question.
1:27.8	And that is, do you have siblings? If so, what birth order were you? And what impacted that
1:33.2	ended up having on the choices that you've made with your life and your career?
1:37.3	Okay. That's, I love that question. I am one of seven. And I am number two. I'm so glad I asked
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