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Feb 2024
8m 54s

You Are An Artist (Whether You Know It O...

Daily Stoic | Wondery
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Maybe you don’t see yourself as an artist, just like Socrates didn’t see himself as an athlete, but maybe you are. According to Mikel Jollett, the founder of the band The Airborne Toxic Event and the author of a fascinating and haunting memoir about his troubled childhood, we have to “take our pain and make it useful. That’s what it means to be an artist.” H ... Show More
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