Elizabeth Gilbert on Creativity

Sunday, 07 June 2009 20:54

Filed under: Inspiration

Are you bearing the weight of creative genius on your shoulders?  Or are you part of a collaboration with the daemons and geniuses of history?

I just watched a very interesting talk given by Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love, at TED in Feb 2009.  She muses about how humans view creativity and the pressure that puts on the individuals channeling it.  Elizabeth suggests the numbers of creative people in the 19th/20th century brought to their demise, be it fatal or otherwise, by the pressure of being perceived to have god-like powers of creativity and thought. A very interesting twenty minute presentation.