"The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates it in the work of art." -Ernest Becker Learn More: The Denial of Death: Ernest Becker public.zoob.eml.cc/becker1-2.pdf Get Out of Your Own Way tinybuddha.com/blog/how-to-get-out-of-your-own-way-and-let-your-life-shine/ "I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being." ~Hafiz of Shiraz TED Flow State www.ted.com/talks/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi_on_flow Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi asks, "What makes a life worth living?" Noting that money cannot make us happy, he looks to those who find pleasure and lasting satisfaction in activities that bring about a state of "flow." Watch More: Find Your Creative Flow State www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXwLsba2TOY Cinema is Cartography For the Mind www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDZSn-gVl_A&list=UUlYb9NpXnRemxYoWbcYANsA Reality of the Virtual www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xnz_Uc5sWOI&list=UUlYb9NpXnRemxYoWbcYANsA Join Jason Silva every week as he freestyles his way into the complex systems of society, technology and human existence and discusses the truth and beauty of science in a form of existential jazz. New episodes every Tuesday.