Share
Now Playing
Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing creativity
About This Talk
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.
About Elizabeth Gilbert
Magazine writer and accomplished novelist Elizabeth Gilbert has thought long and hard about some large topics. Her next fascination: genius, and how we ruin it. Elizabeth Gilbert faced down a pre-midlife crisis by doing what we all secretly dream of – running off for a year. Her travels through Italy, India and Indonesia resulted in the bestselling and deeply beloved memoir Eat, Pray, Love, about her process of finding herself by leaving home.
Find more TEDTalks at http://www.ted.com/
