How to solve your problems through drawing (w/ Liana Finck)

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  Ted audio collective, you're listening to how to be a better human.

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  I'm your host, Chris Duffy.

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  When I think about the artists, comedians, writers, when I think about the people that I admire the most, they run the gamut when it comes to the topics that they cover and their styles and the formats that they work in.

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  But the thing that ties everyone who I admire together, the thing that they all share, is that they found a way to be distinctly and uniquely themselves.

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  That is the trait that I admire the most.

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  And that is why I am so excited about today's episode of our podcast, because our guest, the cartoonist Lyanna Fink, makes work that could only be made by her.

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  You can see her cartoons in places like the New Yorker, but her style is so distinct from what a classic New Yorker cartoon is.

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  You would never mistake her work for something by anyone else because lianas drawings, they're much simpler, but they're also more impressionistic and they convey so much emotion.

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  And theyre also very, very, very funny.

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  Lyanna is hilarious, and her humor comes from this deeply honest, confessional place.

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  Its some of the best proof ive ever seen that the more specific and the more true to yourself you go, the more universally your jokes will connect.

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  Whether it is Lyanna overthinking what to say at a party or analyzing the pressures of adulthood or motherhood, she is always so funny and she is always 100% herself.

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  If you can't already tell, I am a huge fan and I'm so excited to talk to her.

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  Here's a clip from Liana's Ted talk.

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  When I first started making cartoons for the New Yorker about a decade ago, I kept my ideas light and quirky.

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  I didn't draw anything too personal.

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  I figured I was too specific, too hard to relate to and read, possibly too female.

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  It took a breakup to get me to start drawing more autobiographically.

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  The pain I was feeling, although objectively pretty run of the mill, was impossible to ignore.

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  I knew that drawing was my strongest problem solving tool, so I decided to diagram what I was going through.

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