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How to Find Your Bliss: Joseph Campbell on What It Takes to Have a Fulfilling Life
By Maria Popova — 2020
In 1985, mythologist and writer Joseph Campbell (March 26, 1904–October 30, 1987) sat down with legendary interviewer and idea-monger Bill Moyers for a lengthy conversation at George Lucas’s Skywalker Ranch in California, which continued the following year at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
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