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Transcript, context, and related artwork: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/02/17/dfw-leadership-debbie-millman/

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David Foster Wallace on leadership, read by Debbie Millman

Recorded at the New York Public Library. Details, context, and transcript: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/06/24/malcolm-gladwell-nypl-interview/

Malcolm Gladwell on critcism

Malcolm Gladwell on tolerance

This is an excerpt from The Truth About Creativity conference some years ago. See video and quotes of Kaufman in article Shifting Awareness To Be More Creative http://thecreativemind.net/457/scott-barry-kaufman-on-shifting-awareness-to-be-more-creative/

Psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman on Identity and Creativity

Lisa Appignanesi on love.

Lisa Appignanesi is a writer, novelist, and campaigner for free expression. She was Director of Talks and Seminars at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, where she stayed for ten years. While at the ICA she edited the Documents series, which included the books Postmodernism and Ideas from France. After becoming Deputy Director of the ICA in 1986, she created the ICA-Television branch, which produced England’s Henry Moore in 1988 and Seductions for Channel 4. Appignanesi left the ICA in 1990 to write full-time. Memory and Desire and Freud’s Women published in 1991 and 1992, respectively were followed by nine other fiction and two non-fiction books, including the highly acclaimed Mad, Bad, and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors. It won the 2009 British Medical Association Award for the Public Understanding of Science, amongst other prizes. Her most recent book is All About Love: Anatomy of an Unruly Emotion.

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All about love - Lisa Appignanesi

David Whyte:  The Poetry of Self-Compassion

Ann Patchett, the award-winning author of numerous books including “Bel Canto” and “State of Wonder,” joins her good friend Elizabeth Gilbert, author of the hit bestseller “Eat, Pray, Love,” to talk about the challenges and joys of their craft. In this thrilling conversation, Patchett and Gilbert ask each other how and why they write, covering everything from grief, to frustration, to divine inspiration.

Ann Patchett & Elizabeth Gilbert on Writing

Annotations and transcribed highlights: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/06/16/neil-gaiman-how-stories-last

Recorded at the Long Now Foundation (http://longnow.org/) on June 9, 2015. 

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Neil Gaiman on how stories last

Background, context, and poem text: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/07/15/nikki-giovanni-love-friendship-loneliness/

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"A Poem of Friendship" by Nikki Giovanni (read by Maria Popova)

"When I Die" by Nikki Giovanni (read by Maria Popova)

Background and poem text: https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/05/16/wait-galway-kinnell/

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Galway Kinnell reads "Wait"

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James Yorkston - Woozy With Cider (Jon Hopkins Remix)

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.

Write for example, 'The night is shattered
and the blue stars shiver in the distance.'

The night wind revolves in the sky and sings.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

Through nights like this one I held her in my arms.
I kissed her again and again under the endless sky.

She loved me, sometimes I loved her too.
How could one not have loved her great still eyes.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
To think that I do not have her. To feel that I have lost her.

To hear immense night, still more immense without her.
And the verse falls to the soul like dew to a pasture.

What does it matter that my love could not keep her.
The night is shattered and she is not with me.

This is all. In the distance someone is singing. In the distance.
My soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.

My sight searches for her as though to go to her.
My heart looks for her, and she is not with me.

The same night whitening the same trees.
We, of that time, are no longer the same.

I no longer love her, that's certain, but how I loved her.
My voice tried to find the wind to touch her hearing.

Another's. She will be another's. Like my kisses before.
Her voice. Her bright body. Her infinite eyes.

I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her.
Love is short, forgetting is so long.

Because through nights like this one I held her in my arms
my soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.

Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer
and these the last verses that I write for her.



Pablo Neruda

An exclusive track of Sylvia Boorstein reading Pablo Neruda's poem "Keeping Quiet" during her interview with Krista Tippett. This poem is included in the On Being show "What We Nurture." Download the mp3 of the produced show at onbeing.org.

Sylvia Boorstein Reads Pablo Neruda's Poem "Keeping Quiet"

Self Portrait 
 
It doesn't interest me if there is one God
Or many gods.
I want to know if you belong -- or feel abandoned;
If you know despair
Or can see it in others.
I want to know
If you are prepared to live in the world
With its harsh need to change you;
If you can look back with firm eyes
Saying "this is where I stand."
I want to know if you know how to melt
Into that fierce heat of living
Falling toward the center of your longing.
I want to know if you are willing
To live day by day
With the consequence of love
And the bitter unwanted passion
Of your sure defeat.
I have been told
In that fierce embrace
Even the gods
Speak of God.
 
~ David Whyte ~
(Music: "Small Moments" by Above and Beyond)

Self Portrait (David Whyte) +  Small Moments  (Above and Beyond) - 2019 edit

Full conversation and context: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/05/06/wendy-macnaughton-caroline-paul-design-matters/

Excerpt from https://soundcloud.com/designmatters/carolinepaulandwendymacnaughton

True love, depression, and purpose

An inspiring commencement address delivered to the graduating class at San Jose State University. Transcript and discussion: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/05/15/debbie-millman-look-both-ways-fail-safe/

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Debbie Millman: Fail Safe

Recorded at NYPL Live. Background, transcript, and discussion here: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/05/30/dan-savage-andrew-sullivan-nypl-live/

"A Poem of Friendship" by Nikki Giovanni (read by Maria Popova)

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