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🗓️ 7 March 2018
⏱️ 27 minutes
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A mysterious ailment, a convenient place to hide, and most of all, it’s all invented.
Akimbo is a weekly podcast created by Seth Godin. He's the bestselling author of 19 books and a long-time entrepreneur, freelancer and teacher.
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0:00.0 | About 200 years ago, probably on a dark and stormy night, Mary Shelley gave the world |
0:08.5 | Frankenstein, and it has lived on in our nightmares ever since. |
0:14.0 | About the same time, her husband, an intermittent and tortured poet named Percy, |
0:22.0 | gave us Writers Block. |
0:26.0 | He described creativity as a fading coal. |
0:30.8 | And in one of his most dangerous writings he wrote, |
0:34.0 | and the most glorious poetry that has ever been communicated to the world |
0:38.0 | is probably a feeble shadow of the original conceptions of the poet. |
0:45.0 | He set the stage for it would soon come after, |
0:49.0 | the epidemic of Writers Block. |
0:53.0 | Hey, it's Seth, and this is a Kimbo. And now a word from Zip Recooter, our presenting sponsor. |
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