Your dark side has power | Scott Barry Kaufman on Creativity

What are ‘tyrannical shoulds’? Why must we treat humans as ends not means? How are our inner conflicts linked to being more creative? Why is “who am I?” the wrong question?
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Many of us are familiar with Abraham Maslow’s famous ‘hierarchy of needs’ - a pyramid with food and water at the bottom, creativity and ‘self-actualisation’ at the top. But as Scott Barry Kaufman shows in his exclusive How To Academy Talk, in reality, life is nothing like a trek up the summit of pyramid. It’s more like a vast ocean, full of new opportunities for meaning and discovery but also danger and uncertainty.
Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D., is a humanistic psychologist exploring the depths of human potential. He has taught courses on intelligence, creativity, and well-being at Columbia University, NYU, the University of Pennsylvania, and elsewhere. He hosts the #1 psychology podcast in the world- The Psychology Podcast- and is author and/or editor of Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization, Twice Exceptional: Supporting and Educating Bright and Creative Students with Learning Difficulties, Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind, The Philosophy of Creativity, The Complexity of Greatness: Beyond Talent or Practice, Ungifted: Intelligence Redefined, Mating Intelligence Unleashed: The Role of the Mind in Sex, Dating, and Love, The Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence and The Psychology of Creative Writing. He has featured on Jordan B Peterson Podcast, Sam Harris podcast, TEDx talks, Lewis Howes, Big Think, David Pakman Show, BTC Institute, National Geographic, Sean Carroll and OPTIMIZE With Brian Johnson, among many others.
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