This really is an amazing talk. It’s been up on the TED site for over a year now and I have wanted to post it here since day one of this blog. Info:
Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses — and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person “being” a genius, all of us “have” a genius. It’s a funny, personal and surprisingly moving talk.
It’s raining outside, it’s Saturday. What better way to spend the day indoors than doing creative stuff? I’m messing around with camera apps for my iPhone and checking out what other users have come up with at Flickr. It would be nice to write a song or two but I can’t do that at the moment. My best ideas attack me when I don’t have direct access to my recording equipment — like when I’m on a bus or when I’m about to go to sleep. Granted, there are several music creation apps for the iPhone that I can use — but they are still in their infancy and a bit too fiddly on a shaking subway train. Creativity comes whenever it wants to, I can’t control it and that’s what this TED Talk is about. It’s totally worth 20 minutes of your day.
Links:
TED: Ideas worth spreading
Elizabeth Gilbert
