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Paul McKenna's positivity podcast.

Hello, this is Paul McKenna, and welcome to the positivity podcast.

My objective is to interview the most interesting people in the world,

and in the next 30 minutes get insights and even discover how it is that they do what they do,

what makes them unique and fascinating, their success

mindset, and certainly what keeps them positive.

My guest today is an actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer and author. He's a BAFTA winner

and has written and starred in numerous movies. He's written books on relationships and

most recently on creativity. He co-founded Monty Python, co-wrote and starred in Faulty Towers.

I'm talking today with John Cleese.

You and I know the extroverts are fairly vulgar and superficial bunch, right?

And they think we're wankers.

There are some people who hate the idea of an unconscious.

They want it all to be conscious so that they control it.

You can't control creativity.

You can encourage it and provide circumstances

where it's more likely to happen,

but you can't order it about.

If I am sitting, the New York Times asked me recently,

and I said, if I could be sitting in a room

with sunshine outside with the cats and my wife on the sofa so I could look at her in a really

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