Sunday, July 10, 2011

Ted Talk- Elizabeth Gilbert: A new way to think about creativity

"Eat, Pray, Love" Author 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.


She suggest the possibility that the `itness' of a creative persons work actually comes from outside the person - unexplained in modern thought- but explainable in ideas from Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome- when people believed that creativity came from `diamons' or `genius'.

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