Diving into the working ways of some of the world's greatest artists.

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Time Stamps:

3:49 - Benjamin Franklin: The two questions and the "air bath."

6:05 - Scott F. Fitzgerald: Work like a lion

9:04 - Paul Erdos: Drugs and stimulants

12:20 - William Gass: Work angry

14:07 - Anne Rice: Flexibility, ease, and uninterrupted time

16:42 - David Lynch: Find a thinking place

17:40 - Umberto Eco: Thinking in the cracks

19:05 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: Is it sustainable?

20:50 - Twyla Tharp: Building a bridge

22:20 - Graham Greece: Burn your youth, sustain as you age

23:50 - Marcel Proust and Philip Roth: Go monk mode

26:25 - Carl Jung: Make it boring

28:15 - Thomas Mann: Setting Boundaries

30:05 - Gustav Mahler, Twyla Tharp: Preparing to be creative

32:47 - Nicholson Baker, Thomas Wolfe, Fredreich Schiller, Woody Allen - Get creative, find your way

37:20 - Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky: Do the unpleasant first

40:25 - Bernard Malamud: The only thing that matters

42:03 - Anthony Trollope - Advice on starting a craft

44:52 - Gustave Flaubert: the ups and downs of the creative process

46:38 - Ernest Hemingway: Keep some juice in the tank

47:30 - James Boswell: The morning reminder

49:55 - Gertrude Stein, Martin Amis, Joyce Carol Oates - Genius in endurance in disguise

52:22 - Ideas on making time, finding effortless work, and inspiration

54:20 - Karl Marx: The right regrets

56:00 - William James: The Solomon Paradox

58:26 - Rene Descartes - Don't compromise your working way

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