What you'll learn

• 1 (04:33) **Creativity is Crumbling: The Berkeley Architect Study** - Moya introduces a landmark but nearly-lost study on creativity, modeled like the Stanford Prison Experiment but for creative personality
• 2 (34:16) **The Creativity Crisis** - Moya explains the Torrance Test, the gold standard for measuring creativity, and the alarming decline in scores since the 1990s
• 3 (41:29) **Mycelium Mutual Aid** - Patty explains how fungal networks model decentralized community care, reciprocity, and queer resilience
• 4 (51:33) **Where to Find the Guests** - Patty directs listeners to her social media and in-person events; Moya promotes her upcoming book *Mothers of Invention*
• 5 Standout Quotes
• 6 (38:04) "I have stopped thinking of myself as the creative origin. I now think of it as the external sources of inspiration... I feel so much better when I have writer's block because it's just that the external sources of inspiration haven't come to me yet." — Moya McTier
• 7 (44:58) "We don't need a thousand people doing it perfectly. We need a million and one people doing it imperfectly and we need people using who they are and what they're good at to take action that they and only they can take." — Pattie Gonia

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