The Rational Basis® of Happiness Podcast

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I don't know when I've enjoyed an exhibit more. The artists choice to make that still life and monochrome was a stroke of genius conveyed such despair. Yes, it was so refreshing to see a sad peach.

And have you ever gone to an art museum or maybe into maybe into someone's home? And they show you they have a picture hanging on their wall? Or you look at a picture in the museum and you send my God, my three year old could have done better than this? Or are you kidding, somebody framed this or someone paid for this? And then you get the person who comes along and says, Oh my god, doesn't that resonate? Well, I went to the Guggenheim Museum, Oh, this must have been a decade or so ago. And I had an interesting experience. I was walking on. I was in a tour group. And we were walking looking at each picture and the guide would tell us this is and he would go into some elaboration about some smashed up bumpers, you know bumpers from a car that were painted pink, or he would go into a big elaboration about one streak across a blank canvas or at some splatters on another. And there was one woman in the group who was amazing to watch. I think the whole thing is nonsense. And she's saying, Oh, I see what you mean. Oh yes, this is so deep. Oh, wow, this is incredible. She would just mirror anything that the tour guide said. And I thought How sad. She's not allowing herself to think for herself. And it's very obvious that this is stuff. This is the stuff for suckers. So, if you feel yourself needing to say that you like a painting or an artwork, or perhaps it's a movie that you see and you don't like it, but everyone else in your group seems to like it. You want to have the courage give yourself the courage to say I see it differently, even if you don't want to go into all the details of what you see differently and why you may need to buy some time to think that through. At least be true to yourself and say what you genuinely think.