Creativity is not always tortured genius, but it is about living right now

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Creativity is not always tortured genius, but it is about living right now

I’ve just been reading Seth’s blog – his latest post is about genius. His most telling point – that “Genius is actually the eventual public recognition of dozens (or hundreds) of failed attempts at solving a problem” rather than some lightning bolt of insight.

This led me to wander around for a while, and I came back to Elizabeth Gilbert’s inspiring TED talk from 2009.

She takes on the idea that creativity is intertwined with being a “tortured artist”. Telling the story of creativity and artistry since the time of the Greeks, via the renaissance, she brings the story up to date with Tom Waits. Here’s a portion of the transcript of Elizabeth’s talk:

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