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💡 Your Elusive Creative Genius
A tender and funny reframing of the fear inherent to creative pursuits. Elizabeth Gilbert recalls how people reacted with fear when she first said she wanted to be a writer — 'Aren't you afraid the humiliation of rejection will kill you?' — and her short answer was Yes. Her reframe: instea
A tender and funny reframing of the fear inherent to creative pursuits. Elizabeth Gilbert recalls how people reacted with fear when she first said she wanted to be a writer — 'Aren't you afraid the humiliation of rejection will kill you?' — and her short answer was Yes. Her reframe: instead of the rare person being a genius, all of us have a genius, a kind of psychological construct that protects us from the results of our work, which she notes is how we thought about creativity right up until the Renaissance. (🙏 Colleen K)
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