The Ted Talk by Elizabeth Gilbert, the author of Eat Pray Love, was very thought provoking. I love how she told the story of the poet and how she got her creativity. She said the poet described it has a powerful wind chase her to paper. I love the thought of that. She said that sometimes this creative energy would pass her up and continue to another poet. I think of that as not all creative ideas are meant for you. That some ideas and inspirations are not for your calling, but are meant for someone else. I love also how Elizabeth Gilbert mentioned over and over that creativity is seen to come from something or someone else. I totally, a hundred percent agree with this. I like to think that my creativity comes from God. That God gives me the gifts to create something beautiful or to produce something great. I would like to think he moves through me and I am just the mule (as Elizabeth Gilbert put it) for his inspiration. I am creative and create beautiful things because God gives me the gift to do so.
*Here is the link to the Ted Talk*
www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius.html
