This is 100% not true.

> An effective education requires a certain amount of torture, and it works better when self inflicted.

It's the tortured artist myth. You can turn pain into art but it's not a prerequisite.

Kostchei an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Yeh, I agree with this. My art (painting and building) comes at a much faster rate when I am content. Having time and metal space to contemplate colour scheme, being confident to start something bold: that doesn't happen if I am tired, preoccupied or depressed

▲

paxys an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Quite the opposite in fact. Throughout history the most successful artists have been the well funded ones.

▲

delichon an hour ago | parent [-]

The most miserable people I've known were rich people's children. Depression is more about the lack of hope than money.

▲

krapp 2 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

When you're poor in a capitalist society, money is hope.

▲

paxys 24 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You probably don't know very many poor people then, because poverty, food insecurity, physical insecurity, homelessness, job loss are all very common depression triggers. It's just that these cases don't make the front page of newspapers at the same rate as celebrities committing suicide.

	▲	delichon 13 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Poor people trapped in unemployment have something in common with rich kids trapped in lethargy. A kind of spiritual constipation.

▲

27 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

[deleted]

▲

delichon an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Over-emphasized maybe, but myth? Could Doyle have written a sympathetic lonely depressed addict so well without more than academic understanding of those things?