168. Would You Be Happier if You Were More Creative?

No Stupid Questions

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🗓️ 22 October 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Should you become an artist or an accountant? Did Sylvia Plath have to be depressed to write "The Bell Jar?" And what can "Napoleon Dynamite" teach us about the creative life?

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0:00.0	Do you want to know what we do in my family with action movies?
0:04.8	You watch them?
0:06.8	I'm Antelod Duckworth.
0:08.4	I'm Mike Mon.
0:09.4	And you're listening to most stupid questions.
0:13.0	Today on the show, what's the relationship between creativity and happiness?
0:18.0	I wonder what this crayon would taste like.
0:20.4	I'll put it in my mouth.
0:30.0	Mike, we have an email from one Patrick Dillon from Michigan.
0:40.3	He signed his email Michigan comma USA.
0:42.4	Okay.
0:43.4	I wonder where in the Michigan 5, you know how the people use the hand to say where they're
0:48.0	from in Michigan?
0:49.0	They do.
0:50.0	They always use the hand.
0:51.0	I think that's so helpful of only my state where shape's like a hand.
0:54.8	I know no other state has the ability to do that.
0:59.3	Patrick does not want to tell us where in Michigan he resides, but he does want to ask
1:03.5	us this question.
1:05.2	Hi, Angela and Mike.
1:06.6	My question is about the opportunity to express creativity and the associated level of
1:13.4	happiness in life.
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