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"And you have treasures hidden within you - extraordinary treasures - ... And bringing those treasures to light takes work and faith and focus and courage and hours of devotion, and the clock is ticking and the world is spinning, and we simply do not have the time anymore to think so small."
And thus begins your journey into Big Magic and creative living beyond fear. An exquisite book that I am making required reading material for my entrepreneur group programs. It's THAT good!
Liz Gilbert has the best take on creative living that I have read in the dozens of books, hundreds of blogs and interviews and research. She steers you away from drama, addictions to pain and suffering, loneliness, black & white way of looking at your art, artist martyrdom, making such a big deal and not doing all the right things if you truly want to be an artist.
Gilbert has the audacity to question your quest - be it writing, drawing, painting, sculpting, composing, and everything else in between - and she gets to the very bottom of the truth - are you really in it for the love of it? Or are you addicted to the IDEA of it, the perfection of it, the fame and fortune and recognition that may - but likely won't! - come from your art?
In other words, dear reader, are you here for the rewards and outcomes of your art or for the journey, the process, the sheer pleasure of doing it and getting to do it again, the ride, the high (and the low), and are you taking yourself too seriously, because you must tread this path ever so lightly.
I love LOVE the way she gives all permission to pursue their art - even if it's awful, even if it's ugly and far from the high 'standard' they may have for their own creation, and in fact, she urges you to create art, for there are so many rewards to reap just by creating it, by starting it and finishing it, come what may.
I wish I'd read this book 5 years ago, even 10, but alas, not only was Big Magic not around, but I would not have appreciated it. To be able to appreciate this book, it would make more sense if you've gone about the journey of creative living all wrong. It's nice and all to do the right thing proactively but we humans are hardly suckers for prevention. We love to solve our misery - that's much sexier - and if your misery is that your art makes you unhappy in the least, then read this book.
There are six parts in this book: Courage, Enchantment, Permission, Persistence, Trust and Divinity. Each part has wisdom for any artist - and by artist, I mean YOU because Gilbert believes we were ALL born to create and to live a creative life if we so choose to do so. So yes, the wisdom is aplenty.
Perhaps the most powerful concept in the book is one that she has also shared in a past speech and that is the flow of ideas through us, the spark of genius from the universe rather than from within you, and the liberation that you can experience if you weren't so pressured to be such a genius, but instead to care and nurture the genius ideas that go through you.
And thus begins your journey into Big Magic and creative living beyond fear. An exquisite book that I am making required reading material for my entrepreneur group programs. It's THAT good!
Liz Gilbert has the best take on creative living that I have read in the dozens of books, hundreds of blogs and interviews and research. She steers you away from drama, addictions to pain and suffering, loneliness, black & white way of looking at your art, artist martyrdom, making such a big deal and not doing all the right things if you truly want to be an artist.
Gilbert has the audacity to question your quest - be it writing, drawing, painting, sculpting, composing, and everything else in between - and she gets to the very bottom of the truth - are you really in it for the love of it? Or are you addicted to the IDEA of it, the perfection of it, the fame and fortune and recognition that may - but likely won't! - come from your art?
In other words, dear reader, are you here for the rewards and outcomes of your art or for the journey, the process, the sheer pleasure of doing it and getting to do it again, the ride, the high (and the low), and are you taking yourself too seriously, because you must tread this path ever so lightly.
I love LOVE the way she gives all permission to pursue their art - even if it's awful, even if it's ugly and far from the high 'standard' they may have for their own creation, and in fact, she urges you to create art, for there are so many rewards to reap just by creating it, by starting it and finishing it, come what may.
I wish I'd read this book 5 years ago, even 10, but alas, not only was Big Magic not around, but I would not have appreciated it. To be able to appreciate this book, it would make more sense if you've gone about the journey of creative living all wrong. It's nice and all to do the right thing proactively but we humans are hardly suckers for prevention. We love to solve our misery - that's much sexier - and if your misery is that your art makes you unhappy in the least, then read this book.
There are six parts in this book: Courage, Enchantment, Permission, Persistence, Trust and Divinity. Each part has wisdom for any artist - and by artist, I mean YOU because Gilbert believes we were ALL born to create and to live a creative life if we so choose to do so. So yes, the wisdom is aplenty.
Perhaps the most powerful concept in the book is one that she has also shared in a past speech and that is the flow of ideas through us, the spark of genius from the universe rather than from within you, and the liberation that you can experience if you weren't so pressured to be such a genius, but instead to care and nurture the genius ideas that go through you.
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Hands down favorite book that I've read this year for me.
This was an incredibly quick read. I listened to it on audiobook and enjoyed hearing the author read it. She offers a lot of flowery language and great quotable lines that make for nice Instagram captions, but I really didn't get much from the book other than 1) be sure to seize the moment whenever you can, and b) Elizabeth Gilbert believes in some paranormal activity related to "The Muse."
Un libro que se lee rápido, como si una amiga te contara sus opiniones sobre la creatividad. En mi opinión, no me ha aportado mucho, sentía que se repetía todo una y otra vez pero con diferentes ejemplos de la vida de la autora.