15. Rainer Maria Rilke on The Creative Process

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

Blue Zones by David Buettner

**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