Quest for Craft: Season 3 | Chapter 9: Anderson .Paak

CRAFT AND JOY WITH MULTI-FACETED MUSICIAN ANDERSON .PAAK Questlove and Anderson .Paak explore how the motivation to bring people joy affects one’s creative output. The discussion ranges from Paak’s original motivation to make his mother dance — to issues around instinct and collaboration. The episode includes an interview with science journalist and TED speaker Catherine Price about how joy enhances people’s performance and creative output, as well a section about the role of joy at The Balvenie Distillery in Dufftown Scotland, where even retired workers find reasons to spend time at the workplace. A “conversational investigation” of craft and creativity, each episode of Quest for Craft explores a specific theme, combining free-wheeling dialogue between Questlove and a fellow creative along with other interviews, animations and documentary segments. The main conversations are filmed at the iconic Electric Lady Studios in New York City (commissioned by Jimi Hendrix in 1968). Questlove describes t