Sunday, August 9, 2009
The Genius of Creativity
I wanted to share this fascinating speech by novelist Elizabeth Gilbert (of Eat, Pray, Love fame) as she considers the internal and external worlds of creativity. Though of course she's speaking from a place of overwhelming success (and where to go from there), her thoughts struck a chord with me as far as the "maddening capriciousness" and anguish of creativity, as well as its transcendence.
All heady words to be sure, but Gilbert's speech is delightfully entertaining and wonderfully eloquent.
See for yourself:
By the way, if you're not familiar with the remarkable resource that is TED - i.e. amazing under 20 minute speeches of distilled genius by fascinating people - then get on it. Really, it's free and very well may blow your mind.
Now, where did my genius scurry off to?
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Hey, Ben and I have been injecting ourselves with some TED goodness every night. I am hoping that budget metaphor didn't spring to mind from the a doco on crystal meth I watched last night. Ahem, in any case, he has a huge list we HAVE TO get through over the next little while. I really enjoyed hearing the talks of Malcolm Gladwell, Amy Tan, Alain de Botton, and Dan Gilbert. I believe only de Botton's was from this year, but all fascinating and super inspiring.
Me too! But haven't come across the crystal meth one though..hmmm...
I'd say almost regardless of the topic, the speeches are ridiculously motivating. It's so wonderful to watch people speak so eloquently about their passion.
The TED talks are actually coming to Sydney in September, but they're on James' birthday, so probably not so much with the attending.
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