Elizabeth Gilbert: The Creative Life

伊丽莎白·吉尔伯特:创造性的生活

Good Life Project

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2015-09-23

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Elizabeth Gilbert exploded into the public's consciousness in 2006 with the release of her mega-bestselling memoir, Eat Pray Love. Since then, she's published a series of books, given a TED talk on creative genius that's been viewed more than 10 million times, become a leading voice on the pursuit of a creative, connected and vital life. Liz's latest book, Big Magic, takes you deeper into what it means to live a creative life, offering a wonderful blend of wisdom, unabashed magical thinking, amazing stories and a whole lot of unexpected myth-busting and contrarian insights. I had a chance to sit down with Liz and, as often happens with these Good Life conversations, we ended up going all sorts of places I'd never planned. We touched on the power of curiosity and the fallacy of passion, where creativity comes from, what stops us from doing the thing we're here to do, the importance of caring for your vessel, what happens when you think you've reached the end of your capacity and her powerful lens on what it means to life a good life. This is deeply moving, revealing, insightful and sometimes pretty funny conversation. In fact, we begin with a hard-hitting reveal of a relationship that Liz had kept secret for more than four decades. And, along the way, this beautiful thought came tumbling forth: "When you come to the end of yourself is where all the interesting stuff starts." Tweet this. If you've ever wondered how to step into a creative life, how to get that thing in your head and heart out into the world, this is an absolute "do not miss" conversation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • The whole thing is shifting and moving.

  • The ground under our feet is in motion all the time.

  • And what all of the universe is asking you to do is to step back into that current and participate with it in creation, in becoming, in unfolding, in the movement, in the change.

  • A few years back, Elizabeth Gilbert exploded into the public consciousness with the release of her memoir, Eat, Pray, Love.

  • Since then, she's continued to dive deeper into the creative life, publishing more books, but really exploring this deeper question, what does it actually mean to live a creative life?

  • What are all the myths around that?

  • And what are the deeper truths?

  • Are there really creative people and non creative people?

  • Should you actually follow your passion, or is that the worst advice that you could ever get?

  • Do ideas come to you, or do ideas come through you?

  • These are all some of the questions that she explores in a brand new book, big magic.

  • And I had the opportunity to sit down with Liz and talk about these and so much more and the journey through life and what it means to live a good life.

  • I'm so excited to share that conversation with you this week.

  • I'm Jonathan Fields.

  • This is good life project.

  • So I know that normally you kind of like softball the beginning of the conversation, but let's hardball it.

  • There's something that I need to bring up right away.

  • Okay.

  • It's a relationship I recently became aware of that you've had apparently for more than four decades that you've kept hidden.

  • And I'm talking, of course, about one.