Stumble It!
An Alternative Way to Think About the Creative Process
Sunday, March 8, 2009 at 06:05PM 
Seeing as I've been feeling a little under the gorgeous Northern Eastcoast weather this weekend, I spent a good portion of time laying back perusing through some of the amazing talks on TED. Something I highly recommend to any creative whenever they have 18 minutes to spare.
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Currently Ted features an amazing online community and offers what I consider to be a phenomenal set of free, brilliant, educational video-talks on what they appropriately have tagged 'Ideas Worth Spreading'. Their mission is to make the world a better place by the spreading of ideas.
So here is just one of many TED ideas that I want to help share, especially with my readers since this blog is on living an art-full life. This idea comes from Elizabeth Gilbert, the author of best selling book, Eat, Pray, Love. Her idea is that instead of the rare person "being" a genius, all of us "have" a genius. She's an excellent, inspiring speaker and this talk was just what every creative needs to hear every time they ask themselves, 'What's next?'
I hope you received a spark or an 'a ha' moment from this video. Let me know, as I will most likely be featuring Ted talks again!
Reader Comments (2)
I love, love, love TED and Elizabeth Gilbert. We should break in there one day! Love seeing what you are up to and wishing you well!
It was great to be introduced to TED...I enjoyed this particular talk even though I did not expect her to be as good as she was...