Amy McNee

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TED Talks Daily · The case for making art when the world is on fire | Amie McNee · 12 Jun 2025 podcast

How can we optimize and be the best versions of ourselves?

And no one's talking about creativity.

No one's talking about making stuff.

It is the missing pillar of self-development.

If we are going to look at how to improve ourselves as humans, sure, do your 20-minute exercise, but where's your 20 minutes of playing around with the pens?

Where's your 20 minutes of singing in the shower?

We should be considering this, because if we want to live delicious, full lives, we need to be considering our art.

Creativity is the missing pillar of self-development.

It needs to be something that you think about when it comes to how you look after yourself.

Making art gives you agency in a world where we have little control.

So creativity is our power to enact change and bring order to the chaos that we are currently experiencing.

So many of us are experiencing a sort of existential depression.

This idea that, you know, we consume the news and we're like, I can't do anything about this.

I have no agency.

I have no power.

I have no purpose.

And we're seeing an epidemic of meaninglessness.

We just don't feel like there's any use to us.

And because we have this huge, like, what's the point of going forward?

We see a lot of people relying on lateral experiences.

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