Megan Poe: The Art and Science of Love
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2017
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
From her first ever heartbreak to finding love many times after, Megan Poe has had her fair share of experiences with love. Now she wants to share her passion for love and embrace both the art and science behind one of life's most complex emotions. Listen to her story and how she views love, life, and relationships.
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Dr. Meg Poe, M.D. is a psychiatrist and interpersonal psychoanalyst. She wants to find out how do we each live, love, and work well, and she created and teaches the first curricular course on Love at NYU for undergraduates, an interdisciplinary class drawing from film, poetry, philosophy, art, psychology, and neuroscience.
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| 0:00.0 | when I was 20 in college and his name was Baxter and we're still friends. |
| 0:07.0 | That was like a recognition of wow this relationship has an infinity to it and that was the first time I felt |
| 0:15.7 | that and we were in college we were hanging out I think I caught his eyes and he caught mine. He was smoking a cigarette and it was like an art party and we started talking. |
| 0:32.0 | I don't even remember if we were talking very much. |
| 0:34.7 | It was pretty nonverbal. |
| 0:36.5 | It was pretty much an instant recognition of like your mind and I'm yours and |
| 0:41.4 | um and this is and and now we're we're clicking in. We're clicking |
| 0:48.1 | into something that's bigger than us and and it was really creative from the start, full of creative energy. |
| 0:56.0 | In fact, when I read just kids and I read about Patty Smith and Robert Mabelth |
| 1:01.5 | I thought, oh, that was me and Baxter. |
| 1:04.2 | That was us. |
| 1:05.4 | You're making drawings together, making music together, |
| 1:10.4 | having a sense of this other person that constantly surprised you and where your imagination was constantly being mobilized and where you were kind of this entity, this third, that was not you and not him, but this thing that you made together, that was your energy together, that was your relationship, That was the love and it was really |
| 1:35.6 | scary and really frightening because what if he didn't feel like I felt and |
| 1:39.9 | what if you know and I remember he was from Mississippi and we were in school together at Yale. |
| 1:45.8 | And I remember like a month into our relationship, he decided to drive up to Missouri where |
| 1:51.1 | I was from, I am from. |
| 1:53.2 | And he came to the door in like a tweed |
| 1:57.6 | jacket and a button down shirt and his jeans and it tucked in instead of like a t-shirt or whatever he normally be wearing and leave eyes and with a with a bottle of wine and a painting that he had painted for my family and I remember my parents ringing the |
| 2:19.5 | doorbell and answering the door and seeing Baxter there and it was just it was such a and I remember my mom will keep me like well okay then. |
| 2:27.8 | I'm sorry now I'm Sreeny Rao and this is the unmistakable creative podcast where you get a |
| 2:35.8 | window into the stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds who |
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