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In this discussion Matthew Herbert, Phoebe Kiddo, Young Guru and James Holden uncover the causes of (and solutions to) creative blocks. Hear from these artists how they get stuck, how they get unstuck again, and how they ultimately manage to get music made.
Sting’s early life was dominated by a shipyard—and he dreamed of nothing more than escaping the industrial drudgery. But after a nasty bout of writer’s block that stretched on for years, Sting found himself channeling the stories of the shipyard workers he knew in his youth for song material.
In the first part of The National’s series Battling Burnout, Canadian author and workplace expert Rahaf Harfoush tells Andrew Chang that pressures in the modern workplace are distorting our identities by often placing success at work at the expense of mental and physical well-being.