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Big Magic
Elizabeth Gilbert
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Elizabeth Gilbert.
“Done is better than good.”
Author of the memoir Eat, Pray, Love and novels including The Signature of All Things and City of Girls. In Big Magic she turns to creativity itself — how to live a life driven more by curiosity than by fear.
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- Eat, Pray, Love
- Big idea
- Curiosity over fear
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Creative living beyond fear
Big Magic
Elizabeth Gilbert
Creativity · 2015
Big Magic
Creative living beyond fear
A warm, funny pep talk about living a creative life. Gilbert explains how to work with fear instead of against it, why you don’t need anyone’s permission, and why curiosity is a better guide than passion.
Three big ideas
- Ideas want collaboratorsInspiration is looking for someone to work with. Show up and be ready.
- Fear can come, but it can’t driveFear will always be along for the ride. Just don’t give it the wheel.
- No permission neededYou have the right to make things, whether or not anyone asked for them.
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Photos via Wikimedia Commons — Elizabeth Gilbert: Erik Charlton · CC BY 2.0 (cropped) · Brené Brown: Bea Phi · CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped) · Austin Kleon: Larry D. Moore · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Maya Angelou: Clinton Library · Public domain (cropped)