What is a Good Life? #20 - Living A Creative Life with Pejman (PJ) Milani

On the 20th episode of the What is a Good Life? podcast I am joined by Pejman (PJ) Milani, who is the Content Creator at Milani Creative and the Media Arts Director, and a Teacher, at Episcopal High School.

I follow PJ's daily content (@milanicreative) where he shares visual metaphors that simplify complex ideas, so I was intrigued to hear his thoughts on this question and the role creativity plays within that.

In this episode we discuss the significance of creativity in terms of fulfilment, flow, connection, empathy, and self-expression. PJ also outlines how a daily creative practice enables us to handle ambiguity and develops greater problem solving capacities.

While he takes us through his journey and motivation for all of his work - inspiring more people to a life of creativity, that leads to a more connected and creative world.

If you don’t presently have a regular creative practice in your life, this episode will give you plenty to ponder, while for those that do, it will give you further inspiration to maintain and deepen that practice.

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Running Order: 

01:27 Podcast Begins

01:56 Navigating the tension between ambition and contentment

05:26 Overcoming resistance

11:20 Taking your vessel out to sea

14:51 Finding Balance

17:48 Avoiding an autopilot existence

21:44 The importance of a daily creative practice 

28:26 Life is not a journey

31:26 If we could all just be a little more creative…

35:26 Colouring outside of the lines

39:09 Creativity and empathy

43:56 Creativity is good for the soul

47:11 Thought, action, and experimenting

50:37 Top tip for more creativity in your life 

55:11 The beauty of creating just for ourselves

58:25 What is a good life for PJ?

For further content and information check out the following: 

- For the podcast's YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/@whatisagoodlife/videos

- My newsletter: https://www.whatisagood.life/

- My LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-mccartney-14b0161b4/

- PJ's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pejmanmilani/

- PJ's instagram: https://www.instagram.com/milanicreative/

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