2012年12月4日 星期二

Elizabeth Gilbert: Your elusive creative genius



Great encouraging talk to keep programming. I am pretty frustrating by the current quiz, but maybe I need to remind to myself that you have to let genius works with you. All you can do, is keep doing your part of the work: practice.


- Author of eat pray love
- Fear that the highest point has passed
- Association with creativity and depression

- How to deal with this depression?
- Ancient Greece: Creativity does not come from oneself's, but comes from demon
- Ancient Roman: Creativity comes genius (spirit that lives inside the wall that will help the artist)
-> Artist is protected, does not take all the credit, can't take all the blame

- Now: the artist is been the genius; instead of been inspired -> ego, unmanageable pressure

- Explain the creative process this way;
- Looking for a piece of a poem

- Catch the poem by its tail

- Idea that comes from a source

- Tom, Instead of panicking; he just look up on the sky: "can't you see that I am driving"; released the genius inside; a conversation with the genius. 

- If the book isn't brilliant, it is not entirely my fault; but I am still writing because this is my job.

- dancer lift up on fire, people will say: "Allah, allah, allah"; an expression that now becomes "olay olay olay" (bull fight)

- the trick is the next morning, when the dancer wake up; and find out that he is not the portal of God anymore

- Don't be afraid; continue to do your dance anyhow

Olay (keep showing up)







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