In this episode we unpack Austrian Existential Poet Rainer Maria Rilke's masterpiece "Letters to a Young Poet."
These letters explore...
-Why solitude is vital for creatives
-Why the creative process is similar to the gestation period and birthing of a baby
-Why advice is often unhelpful
Links to Reading and other Books mentioned
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
Attached by Amir Levine & Rachel Heller
**note** reading is not required to enjoy the episode!
Host: Zach Stehura UnpackingIdeas.com
Guest: Jasia Ries Instagram @thejasia
Theme Music: Polyenso listen here
Timestamps
00:00:00 Introduction
00:03:17 Translation
00:03:55 Background to the letters
00:05:48 Advice to others is often advice to ourselves
00:09:21 Turning inward to answer your biggest questions
00:17:15 A great work of art springs from necessity
00:22:19 There is nothing boring. Only boring people
00:23:26 Solitude
00:30:36 The gestation of an idea
00:35:15 Rilke’s conception of God
00:41:48 Living the questions
00:48:15 Things that are difficult are worth doing
00:49:30 Entering a relationship from a place of already being whole
00:56:20 What the sexes can learn from each other
01:04:04 Codependency vs. Interdependency
01:09:50 Sadness and Change as two sides of the same coin
01:19:42 wrapping up/outro
