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#29 | Ben West | Losing my brother to suicide.

The Modern Mind

CHAPTER

The Pressure of Growing Up

Do you think it was almost a, a bit of a curse as much as it was a blessing? I i'm not sure. Think we putpressur on young people in the wrong places. We've created a world where we have given creative people so much pressure to be someone they're not for their entire youth years. And then chucked them out in a world that is desperate for tives. If pacasso and all these famous artists were at school, i don't think a lot of them acally would have been able to do what Sam did.

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