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The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Bill Deresiewicz takes us on a fascinating journey through over 30 years of razor-sharp reflection on culture and society. How is the internet changing us? Why should we go to college? What is the purpose of art? What does it mean to be an individual and how do we retain our individuality in such a networked society? These are a few of the piercing yet fundamental questions you will hear dissected in this episode.

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0:00.0	As you probably notice, this month, we're bringing you our Life of Purpose series and revisiting
0:04.6	some of our most transformative episodes. Tune in to explore expert insights and practical
0:09.4	strategies on help, performance, and community well-being, all aimed at helping you achieve
0:14.4	personal and professional fulfillment. If you sign up for the newsletter, you'll not only get
0:18.5	recaps of the key ideas in each interview, but at the end of the series, you'll receive our free Life of Purpose ebook.
0:24.5	What you have to do is go to UnmistakableCreative.com slash LifePurpose. Again, that's
0:28.9	unmistakablecreative.com slash life purpose.
0:32.2	We are no longer withdrawing into ourselves in solitude, listening to ourselves, thinking our own thoughts,
0:40.1	reading deeply in books, encountering another mind in that silence of reading, we are constantly
0:46.2	oriented towards not just the group, but the approval of the group. We constantly want to
0:52.6	stay aligned with the group. We want to stay in good
0:55.3	standing with the group, whether that's a formally defined identity group or more really,
1:04.0	whatever group we happen to have gathered around us on social media, like the people who
1:09.9	read our posts and who like our posts and who
1:12.2	respond to our posts. I think it's going to change everything.
1:20.0	I'm Sreeny Rao, and this is the Unmistakable Creative Podcast, where you get a window into the
1:24.8	stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds
1:27.7	who started movements, built thriving businesses, written bestselling books, and created insanely
1:32.7	interesting art. For more, check out our 500 episode archive at UnmistakableCreative.com.
1:41.4	Bill, welcome to the Unmistakable Creative. Thanks so much for taking the time to join us.
1:45.1	Oh, it's good to be back. Yeah, you are one of those sort of rarefied people who is here for a third time.
1:52.7	And usually if we have somebody back more than twice, it's because I enjoyed talking to them so much and learned so much from them the first two times.
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