Peter Turchi - Maps of the creative process and designs for life

Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan

Peter Turchi takes the art and act of writing as an irresistible analog for the art and the act of living. His work is part of a long tradition of fascination with processes of writers and he is among the masters at relating that process in a way that reaches all domains of society. For anyone who has ever thought about writing - the craft of it, its centrality in the human experience, its analog for life itself - this conversation is for you.
Show Notes:

• How he began writing (04:30)
• Dealing with rejection (12:00)
• Richard Russo writer (18:00)
• Maps of the Imaginations: The Writer as Cartographer (18:30)
• The Power of Maps by Dennis Woods (21:30)
  • Other brilliant books on maps
• Jorge Luis Borges (19:00)
• Origins - Melanie Mitchell (28:30)
• Lisa Feldman Barrett (28:45)
• The Atlas of Cyberspace by Rob Kitchin (29:30)
• The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte (30:15)
• Origins - Giorgia Lupi (31:20)
• Origins - Matt Russo (31:30)
• MFA Program at Warren Wilson (34:40)
• Productivity-driven culture (38:15)
• Alison Gopnik - Explore/Exploit paradigm (41:30)
• Charles Ritchie artist (45:30)
• E.O. Wilson - “A lifetime can be spent in a Magellanic voyage around the trunk of a single tree” (46:40)
• A Muze and a Maze (46:00)
• The Book of Sand by Borges (51:30)
• Joan Dideon “I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear”
• Peter's daily routine (53:45)
• Lightning round (58:00):
  • Book: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
  • Passion: Music
  • Making heart sing: Sonoran Desert
• Find guest online:
  • http://www.peterturchi.com/
• 'Five-Cut Fridays’ five-song music playlist series
  • Peter’s playlist