THE VIDEO SHELF · creativity
Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert
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.
Why HN readers recommended it
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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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- TED
- Topic
- creativity
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2011–2021
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From the original HN conversations
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This is really quite germane: [VIDEO] . While she talks about writing, I think it applies to the kind of thing you are talking about here.
wglb on Hacker News · 2012-07
In Late bloomer, not a loser. (I hope)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 …
bgilroy26 on Hacker News · 2012-07
In The "Just look at it" hack for problem solving
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