4. Does All Creativity Come From Pain?

No Stupid Questions

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🗓️ 8 June 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Also: is life precious because it’s finite?

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0:00.0	You know, that's a philosophical question, Stephen, right?
0:03.0	I apologize for going all philosophy on the psychologist.
0:08.4	I'm Angela Duckworth.
0:09.6	I'm Stephen Dubner, and you're listening to No Stupid Questions.
0:14.9	Today on No Stupid Questions, does Sigmund Freud's concept of sublimation hold up?
0:20.6	I did love my mother, but I never wanted a barrier.
0:22.8	Well, Freud wouldn't believe you, by the way.
0:25.1	I know he wouldn't.
0:26.0	You would say there he goes, coping.
0:28.5	Also, how would your life be different if you knew you were going to live forever?
0:32.7	The world would get very crowded.
0:34.1	Nobody's dying.
0:34.9	On the other hand, you free up all that space from cemeteries.
0:37.7	Oh, yeah, exactly.
0:39.1	You'd start building condos.
0:42.2	Stephen.
0:43.0	Angela.
0:43.7	You know, you do a lot of writing and podcasting.
0:45.8	I would say these are creative pursuits.
0:49.0	Are you sublimating?
0:51.3	And do you need me to define sublimating for you?
0:54.8	This is the psychological form of sublimating and not the chemical form of sublimating, I assume.
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