We interviewed dozens of creatives about their life path. What they said might surprise you.

Hint: Life doesn’t fit into a neat little box.

My co-founder, Dupi, and I set out to create a podcast. I know, I know — us and every other Millennial. But, our purpose wasn’t to become Tim Ferriss-level famous. We didn’t even want to become “podcasters” necessarily.

We just wanted to understand how the heck people who have taken a creative path in life figured it out. How they spent their “free” time. What they daydream about when they’re not running through their To Do list.

You know, simple stuff.

These big questions all came about when we launched our company, Daydreamers, a few weeks ago. We quickly realized that as we started to build this community of Leisureists and Experimenters there was a bigger issue at hand. Because a lot of us had been stuck on the work-gym-sleep hamster wheel for a very very long time. So long, we don’t know how to get off. We don’t know how to build hobbies. We don’t know what it meant to feel “un”productive — in a good way, you know? Not in a lazy-I’m-not-accomplishing-anything way.

Essentially, we don’t know how to spend our “free” time.

But, Dupi and I knew there were people out there in our great, big, creative world that were…