Tuesday, March 17, 2009

genius and how we ruin it: elizabeth gilbert on creativity

elizabeth gilbert, the writer who found sudden, wild, international success with her travel/soul-searching memoir eat, pray, love, talks about western conceptions of creativity, how they came about, and why they are dangerous. gilbert proposes a return to an ancient understanding of art and genius in this inspiring twenty minutes, which has moved me to motion in the past & just woke me up again amid the delirium of finals week.

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