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E90. Do You Have to Suffer to Create Good Art? Kind Of, but Also Not Really

Author
Kendra Patterson
Published
Fri 16 Sep 2022
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I've had clients say to me that they feel they can't be "real" artists because they don't suffer enough. They feel like they're creative beings, but they're *gasp* pretty happy with their lives and therefore don't have much fodder for their creative work. In this episode I discuss my latest thoughts on the relationship between pain and creativity, and reassure you that if you are a human being (check?), you definitely have enough dark stuff to inform and enrich your creative work, and you don't have to suffer (much) to access it.

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