Elizabeth Gilbert

Your elusive Creative Genius

The magic of keeping going as a creative.

Making the choice to take a course as a creative person and to find a means to support ones-self in a creative vocation, can often be seen as a high risk choice to make.

Elizabeth Gilberts approach to coping with the pressures that come along with creative practice is innovative and inspirational.

"I think her main message is not to absorb negativities surrounding creative practice and comments toward creative practice personally".

If we can find away to detach ourselves from the pressures and high expectations that we often put on ourselves as artists through internal and external pressures, this can be to our benefit. Gilbert suggests this can help to elevate tension and help us focus on a continued creative practice. Gilberts suggestions are remarkable and help creative individuals focus away from personal egos and embrace a more shared experience of the creative process.

Inspiration is a gift given from external powers and not something we posses of ourselves. We do better to consider ourselves as mediators or custodians or simply that creativity is on loan to us.

Gilberts encouragement is for us to keep turning up on the job to do our part, that is what is important the rest may or may not happen from there.