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If you listen to Elizabeth Gilbert’s presentation while you stitch I think you will find it interesting.
Elizabeth Gilbert approaches the idea of being a professional in a creative industry from a refreshingly new slant.
She questions the idea that creativity and anguish is linked, and asks if the idea needs to be continued.
Friday, December 11, 2009 at 6:05AM
Reader Comments (4)
Thank you for sharing this. I have long ascribed to this notion and to hear it put with such eloquence and gentle humor by Elizabeth was fabulous. (I stitched the entire time!)
Blessings,
Julie
Wow, thanks for sharing this. It is wonderful food for thought!!
Very interesting and with some worthwhile thoughts.
I personally can't say that I believe any creativity can be ascribed to any external spirit visiting us, but I do formly believe that creativity is a God-given, God-implanted part of the human, created in his amazingly creative image. So, in that respect, it's external and internal at the same time. Remembering that it's a received gift helps to keep one's ego within recommended proportions!!!=)
Creativity to me is healing, joyous and expressive, a very positive thing - even when used to purge something negative (although this shouldn't be the whole focus and that's why I don't go for Chinese literature). I understand the anguish to a point from worrying that my gift projects would go pear-shaped or that my C&G work was no good compared to others', but I also feel that that's mainly a result of the lack of confidence that's such a big part of human imperfection. Finding a healthy way to combat it is good and her encouragement to just keep on going is the right way forward.
I too was taught that creativity was a gift but also that it was a sin not to use it. I think part of the message (ie its a sin not to use it) gives shy people the nerve to jump at times too but many forget the second part of the message.