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Timestamps: 

• [01:45] Realizing you’re an artist
• [05:50] Weaving in business with creativity
• [08:18] Blending religions and cultures with your identity
• [14:00] Traveling to Mongolia and Beijing
• [19:20] Learning to sit with pain
• [25:23] Responding to life with creativity
• [31:24] The myth of the tortured artist
• [35:28] Choosing happiness like Sisyphus
• [40:49] Balancing creative potential and fieldwork
• [44:43] Co-creation in the creative process
• [51:57] Being a shapeshifter and being yourself
• [57:26] Ways to find yourself
• [01:02:35] Last question

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