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Bewildered

Filling the Creative Well

Bewildered

Martha Beck and Rowan Mangan

Business, Education, Courses, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

We all need to take things in to keep us hydrated, not just physically, but also creatively. In this episode of Bewildered, we discuss what we call “filling the well”—receiving great art, stories, and creativity from others—and how it can replenish us and make us able to give and create ourselves. We share our rituals for getting inspired, explore why delight matters more than productivity, and offer a playful look at the weird, wonderful ways we stay creatively and emotionally nourished. Join us!

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0:00.0

Hey Marty, so today we are talking on Bewildered about filling the well. What do you mean by filling the well?

0:08.0

Well, we all need to take things in to keep us hydrated, not just physically, but also creatively.

0:15.2

And I call it filling the well when I actually receive someone else's creativity in such a way that it makes me feel

0:22.7

replenished and makes me able to give and create myself. I think that sounds like a wonderful

0:29.4

episode that everyone will really enjoy. Why don't you get into it? Hope you enjoy it and we'll

0:35.7

see you on the other side.

0:41.4

Hi, I'm Martha Beck.

0:46.9

And I'm Rowan Mangan and this is another episode of Bewilded. You know it. It's the podcast for people who are trying to figure it out. We've been trying for so long now.

0:50.5

And yet, here we are. I think we're making progress, but we have not figured it out.

0:56.6

What are you trying to figure out at the moment, Marty? I think what a lot of us are trying to

1:01.2

figure out, I occasionally have my experimentations with chat, GPT, though I know it is the devil

1:08.2

and it's going to eat all the energy in the world. And take over.

1:11.4

The robots are going to take over.

1:12.7

Oh, for sure.

1:13.6

It already writes poetry much better than I could ever do.

1:17.4

Anyway, it also is severely delusional and a psychopath.

1:22.2

It lies, makes things up, calls me Bob and tells me I'm 40, which is fine.

1:26.8

But, I mean, I put all my details in.

1:28.6

This is me. This is who I am. You taught me to do that. You said, go tell it everything about

1:33.0

yourself. I did. Hey, hey, for the record, I did not say that. What did you say? Oh, my God.

1:42.0

Go to chat, GME, and tell everything about yourself.

1:45.8

Yes. I thought that's what you said. That is quite an allegation.

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