How to find humor in life's absurdity | Maira Kalman

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🗓️ 6 December 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

With levity and profound insight, artist Maira Kalman reflects on life, death, dinner parties, not knowing the right answers, the joys of eating a hot dog from a street vendor and more. This talk, interwoven with her delightful paintings, is itself an artwork that seems to hold the entirety of life in all its absurd glory.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:02.0	Audio Collective.
0:04.0	I'm Elise Hugh, you're listening to Ted Talks Daily.
0:12.0	Artists show us the world and show us to ourselves.
0:17.0	Multidisciplinary artist Myra Kalman is one of them and in these difficult and fragile times we're living in, her 2023 talk from Ted
0:26.0	women offers us some levity and profound insight at the same time after the break.
0:34.0	We all have bad days and sometimes bad weeks and maybe even bad years.
0:39.0	But the good news is we don't have to figure out life all alone.
0:42.0	I'm comedian Chris Duffy, host of Ted's
0:44.5	How to be a Better Human Podcast. And our show is about the little ways that you can
0:48.6	improve your life, actual practical tips that you can put into place that will make your day to day better.
0:53.7	Whether it is setting boundaries at work or rethinking how you clean your house,
0:58.0	each episode has conversations with experts who share tips on how to navigate life's ups and downs.
1:04.0	Find how to be a better human wherever you're listening to this.
1:08.0	Every day I speak to my beautiful and brilliant cousin,
1:12.8	Orna, who lives in Israel.
1:16.3	In normal times, we talk about which cousin is the bigger idiot,
1:20.6	which honeycake recipe to use which books were reading the family stories
1:29.0	from Belarus. The conversations are a beacon for me and they fill my soul and enter my books.
1:37.0	The other day, Orna brought up a Romanian philosopher named Emil Cioran.
1:44.0	He was a miserable
1:48.0	insomnia who drove everyone nuts because of this.
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