Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

Find an accurate transcript (and subtitles in 46 languages) on ted.com: http://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius/transcript?language=en "Eat, Pray, Love" author 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. TED Talks is a daily podcast of talks and performances from TED, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in many languages are available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate Follow TED Talks on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/tedtalks Like TED on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TED

Topics:

["Elizabeth Gilbert", "TED", "TEDtalks", "eat pray love", "creativity", "creative", "writing", "genius", "inspiration", "creative process", "talent", "natural talent", "muse", "passion", "motivation", "success", "unexpected success", "rational", "responsibility", "ego", "performance", "pressure", "artists", "inspired work", "fear", "intelligence", "gifted", "born gifted", "creative self", "being a genius", "suffering", "anguish", "self preservation", "divine gift", "genius inside", "writer", "Arts", "Culture", "creative mystery", "creative muse", "performance anxiety"]

Duration

Duration minutes: 19

Duration seconds: 29