Adam Mastroianni - Why Creativity Feels Like It's Dying (Ep. 306)

And some deviance is good, we call that creativity, and some deviance is bad, we call that crime. If you look at um surveys of what young people are doing in terms of smoking, drinking, getting pregnant, these things just go down and down and down, starting mainly in the 90s. And I think we can all agree like that's a good decline of deviance. But I think it has this uh this negative ultimate outcome, which is the kids who were smoking in the bathroom ultimately go on, some of them, maybe some of them are closer than you might think, some of them go on to do some interesting things as well.

And so if you don't have that deviance at the beginning, maybe you don't get it down the line in both positive and negative forms. Well, hello everyone. It's Jim O'Shaughnessy with yet another Infinite Loops. My guest today is someone who has intrigued me for quite some time. Adam Mastrionei is an experimental psychologist, postdoc at Columbia University, Harvard PhD, former roads scholar, also a bit of a troublemaker.

Adam, welcome. Hey, thanks. Thanks for the introduction and thanks for having me. Looking forward to starting some trouble. I listen, if there's a trouble to be started, I want to be there.

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