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TED Talks is an amazing resource that gathers the brightest minds of our time and gives them 20 minutes to give the lecture of their life. The live events are sold out for the next ten years, I understand, but the lectures are shared via online video afterward.
Elizabeth Gilbert is the author of “Eat, Pray, Love”, and she talks about the pressures of creativity. She explores the idea that we don’t have to ‘be’ a genius but that we can ‘have’ a genius.
Using her own experience, she talks about how people reacted to her teen-age desire to write by asking “Aren’t you afraid the humiliation of rejection will kill you? Aren’t you afraid that you’re going to work your whole life at this craft and nothing ever going to come of it and you’re going to die on a scrap heap of broken dreams with your mouth filled with bitter ash of failure?”
Many entrepreneurs I work with have this kind of underlying fear, and it’s often created (or reinforced) by well-meaning family and friends who want to protect them. And yet, there’s something pulling that entrepreneur (you) forward… maybe it’s your creative genius?
Get inspired by watching Elizabeth Gilbert here:
http://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius.html
Then show up and be ready to serve your entrepreneurial genius… Ole!
(You have to watch the video for that to make sense…) ;=)
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