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3.92 AVERAGE
3.92 AVERAGE
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Reminder to be creative, do the thing whether just for yourself or to share with others.
This is the first book of Elizabeth Gilbert's that I've read. Well, technically, I listened to the audio book, and now I want to read more!!! I really loved Big Magic. I love how Gilbert personifies ideas and creativity. Genius and in my experience, so true!! The book also has a down-to-earth feel to it, stating that it's responsible to have a plan when it comes to supporting yourself financially. Very inspiring!!
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Everything is art. Cultivate vulnerability, curiosity, healing, combinatory play, and beauty through art. Be the trickster in your pursuit of creativity.
"Do whatever brings you to life, then. Follow your own fascinations, obsessions, and compulsions. Trust them. Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart."
"Do whatever brings you to life, then. Follow your own fascinations, obsessions, and compulsions. Trust them. Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart."
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I can appreciate Liz Gilbert's intentions with this book and I definitely felt inspired for the first 100 pages, but then the novel lost it's way, feeling repetitive and directionless, which dimmed the inspiration dial for me. I wasn't bothered by the 'name dropping' as I've seen other people mention, it added to the stories and I was glad to see there was no strong ego when Liz spoke about the success of Eat Pray Love - it was actually quite interesting to hear about an author talk about the wild success of one book that threw them into the spotlight.
The biggest weakness of me was some of the strange comparisons or tidbits that the author used that felt quite jarring and discriminative. I was surprised to see these statements that could very easily be offensive published from such a big source. Examples below -
(using the word hobo to address a homeless person and making the comparison of your dad being a minimalist to a homeless persons material needs - which aren't being met as they are in fact, homeless, just really stuck out as crude)
"if you truly love having babies, for instance, then you don't care about the morning sickness"
(wtf even is this sentence, believe me, you can hate the morning sickness with every ounce of your being and still love having children!
And finally "...all to often - women are the ones holding themselves back from participating in the first place. Holding back their ideas, holding back their contributions, holding back their leadership and talents" I literally cannot even begin to breakdown everything wrong with this statement
The biggest weakness of me was some of the strange comparisons or tidbits that the author used that felt quite jarring and discriminative. I was surprised to see these statements that could very easily be offensive published from such a big source. Examples below -
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"which was rare, because he basically had the material needs of a hobo"(using the word hobo to address a homeless person and making the comparison of your dad being a minimalist to a homeless persons material needs - which aren't being met as they are in fact, homeless, just really stuck out as crude)
"if you truly love having babies, for instance, then you don't care about the morning sickness"
(wtf even is this sentence, believe me, you can hate the morning sickness with every ounce of your being and still love having children!
And finally "...all to often - women are the ones holding themselves back from participating in the first place. Holding back their ideas, holding back their contributions, holding back their leadership and talents" I literally cannot even begin to breakdown everything wrong with this statement
if you ever are feeling like your creative endeavors are not enough, read this book, then get back to work. the world needs to see/here/read/experience your creativity.