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I want to talk today about two myths that we cling to in this

culture that are, in my opinion, really hurting us. Herting our creativity, hurting our ability

to connect, hurting our ability to do the work that really matters. The first is the myth of individualism and the second is the

myth of the lone creative genius. And I think that if we're able to relinquish these two myths to

understand just how untrue they really are, that we can actually open up a lot of freedom and space

for new ways of connecting,

new ways of creating, and new ways of holding ourselves accountable.

Maybe even new perspectives that prioritize a creative process that flows from ease rather

than from agony.

Honestly, down with the tortured artist, I am really over this idea. So I'm going to

approach this topic as I do by first talking a little bit about my personal experience and then

expanding from there. So for a long time, and I'm talking a really, really long time here, like most of my adult life,

I thought that creativity should happen alone. I really embraced the myth of the lone creative genius. I'm a writer and I thought that in order

to do good writing, I needed to lock myself away in a garret, you know, like writers do, until I produced

my best work. And of course, if that felt like an agonizing thing to do, that was only right because art is agony, right?

Artists are sad and tortured, and that is as it should be.

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