Pain as Beginning

Grant's answer to whether pain fuels great writing: pain is not the end but the beginning; what matters is what you do with it, ideally rising above it with humor.

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  the antidote to madnessEp 2 · with Grant Shipway

  Listen at 54:13Read it in the transcript

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• Sincerity vs Seriousness

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• Fatalism Without Desire

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• Laugh at your painGrant Shipway · Ep 2 · 51:46

  Rather than squeezing pain for all it's worth, look at it and try to laugh at it, to rise above it.

• Pain is a starting point, not a museGrant Shipway · Ep 2 · 51:46

  Dwelling on pain until it becomes an obsession leads to Dazai's dead end. Pain is fuel for becoming something, and humor lets you stand above it.

• I think pain is not the end. I think pain is more like the beginning. There is pain, and there is what you do with it.Grant Shipway · Ep 2 · 54:13