Thursday, April 09, 2009

Elizabeth Gilbert reminds us that we are all creative



A Youtube video I've posted at the blog features a talk by Elizabeth Gilbert the author of Eat, Pray, Love. It is one the TED Talks. (1) They describe her presentation in this way:

Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses -- and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person "being" a genius, all of us "have" a genius. It's a funny, personal and surprisingly moving talk.

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I found this at the Creative Goddess blog, which is a very interesting place. Check it out.

Endnotes:

(1) TED Talks:

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

wow! thanks for the shout out.

i still listen to the video now and again -very intriguing.