Amusing Muses

13 responses to “Amusing Muses”

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   nardell

   Feb 10, 2009 at 4:25 am

   Wow, Steve – what a wonderful shot. Believe it or not, I just started reading Eat Pray Love yesterday. She’s enchanting. Thanks for sharing this!

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   tifotter

   Feb 10, 2009 at 4:25 am

   Great talk! Very interesting take on how to care for creativity. Personally I carry ear plugs to block out the noise of the world so I can protect my "listening" ability. When I’m particularly beat down, I also picture my creativity as a small child, and I imagine myself taking care of it. I brush a strand of hair out of her eyes and I tuck her in before bed time. I ask her how she’s feeling and give her a hug if she needs one. I feed her soup and tie her shoes. Whatever it takes to protect the creative instrument.

   After seeing her speak, I’ll have to pick up her book at the airport tomorrow.

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   two of three

   Feb 10, 2009 at 4:29 am

   have you read eatpraylove?

   this is very dear to me.

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   jurvetson

   Feb 10, 2009 at 6:10 am

   not yet… sounds fun… Can I substitute song for prayer?

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   Resh B.

   Feb 10, 2009 at 12:00 pm

   I didn’t like the book one bit. Sorry! 🙂

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   Vanita

   Feb 10, 2009 at 2:07 pm

   “The meddling capriciousness of the creative process can feel paranormal.”

   I’ve been thinking this statement over.

   For me the creative process is a counter-balancing act of being able to let go and be receptive and stay on target all at the same time. It is a light-handed thing as well as a sure-handed… a bit like steering a sailboat.
   :

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   Leino88

   Feb 16, 2009 at 5:27 am

   just finished watching this one…
   how ..oddly… relative

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   amitp

   Feb 16, 2009 at 5:30 pm

   It’s an entertaining talk. I think that creativity will eventually be explained scientifically. I suspect it’s subconscious thought, guided by interactions with the environment around you, occasionally bubbling up into consciousness. You can’t just do the right thing; you have to surround yourself with an environment that enhances creativity. You can’t just sit around waiting for it; you have to be in that (relaxed?) state that allows subconscious thoughts to float up to consciousness. And you need to be able to capture it when it does float up. Assigning credit to fairies instead of yourself seems like a reasonable way to cope with the disappointment of failure but also runs the risk of never figuring out what inside of you makes you successful, and thus never improving yourself.

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   Gwênlyn

   Feb 17, 2009 at 8:33 am

   Just watched this talk.

   Pure obscurantism.

   Yes, I wonder about creativity, I always have. Ideas that seem to come out of nowhere, and conversely the concept that eludes us after much thought and work.

   And yet, the "out of nowhere" very frequently ends up being an integration of stuff I’d been exposed to earlier, or previous thoughts restated…

   I wish I understood creativity better, but talking to an imaginary genius in the empty corner is a rather lame proxy for understanding.

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10. 

    best account

    Mar 29, 2009 at 1:42 am

    She’s hot. I’d hit it.

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    jurvetson

    Aug 21, 2009 at 6:53 pm

    just noticed that this image was used by the LA Times in a story about EPL 2.0, a lightweight set of services popularized as Nibble, Lotto, Like

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    booledozer

    Aug 15, 2014 at 9:36 pm

    This image was uploaded here —
    commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elizabeth_Gilbert,_author…
    Thanks for using a CC liscense that allows re-use!

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    fatzenhen

    Mar 6, 2015 at 3:09 am

    Thanks for this photo. I have used it in my blog post here;

    http://www.fatzenhen.com/elizabeth-gilbert-at-the-perth-writers-...

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