*creativity* in a new light

When you hear the word genius,

what do you think of?

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Do you think of someone as being a genius

OR

having a genius?

author Elizabeth gilbert -- of *eat pray love* -- suggests the latter

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after I finished reading *eat pray love*

I 'YouTubed' her name and the video below

was the first to display.

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I'm so excited to have stumbled upon this twenty-minute clip

because she tells, from experience as a successful writer,

from research,

& from talking with other great writers who've

experienced it,

of a fresh new way to think about creativity.

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I'm excited because if you are a creative

individual -- and we all are, really -- this video

will

truthfully

and

honestly

make

so

much

gosh

darn

sense

to you

that it'll be a

tad

bit

scary.

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I hope you watch.

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What she says about the poet

and the *thundering poem*

has happened to me more times than I can

count, but now I just have words to go

with what I experienced.

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i just started gilbert's new book Committed

and we'll see how that read goes.

maybe it'll straighten up my great BIG marriage

question mark over my head?????

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Anyway...without further ado...a new way of thinking: