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Creative Confidence Podcast
How Constraints Make Us More Creative: David Epstein
June 18, 2026
Mina Seetharaman talks with David Epstein, author of Inside the Box and Range, about why total freedom often produces average work, how leaders can design useful limits on purpose, and what organizations such as General Magic and Pixar reveal about the relationship between boundaries and creativity.
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