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Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

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Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love, reflects on the pressure placed on artists to be geniuses. She proposes the older idea that creative people have a genius that visits them rather than being one.

HN people link it in threads about creativity, late bloomers and creative burnout as a humble, relatable take on where inspiration comes from.

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@wglb2012-07 · in “Late bloomer, not a loser. (I hope) ”

This is really quite germane: ▶ this video . While she talks about writing, I think it applies to the kind of thing you are talking about here.

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@bgilroy262012-07 · in “The "Just look at it" hack for problem solving”

This TED talk by the author of Eat, Pray, Love addresses the very question at hand: "Who/What is responsible for creativity?". It approaches the question from a very subjective point of view. I haven't read her book, but she is humble and relatable in the video. ▶ this video

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@hyperpallium22021-08 · in “We don't 'do' learning. It does us”

The idea of a "muse", and "genius" is something that visits you (not something you are). IIRC, this TED talk is about it ▶ this video

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@walexander2011-07 · in “Hemingway, Hounded by the Feds”

What are with some of these comments? This is not a story about a man who lost his 401k value. This is about seeing the end of the road and realizing the greatest things you've done you can never do again. Here's a man who is considered by some the greatest american writer (words of my freshman year english prof), who felt like he would "never achieve what he was capable of"(paraphrase). See: link ▶ this video

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