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There are TWO big problems with being a creative
Thinking of creativity in this way takes the teaching of the Renaissance period and totally turns it on it's head
Moors used to chant Allah, Allah, Allah when they saw a stunning, transcendental, dance performance.
... Moors saw that performance not as a work of man, but as a manifestation of God
When the Moors invaded Spain, they took this tradition with them, and this chanting of Allah, Allah, Allah changed to Ole, Ole, Ole that is so synonymous with Spanish music today.
So perhaps the next time you see someone create what appears to be a work of genius
Rather then call them a genius (along with all the pressure that puts upon them) ... Simply say ..
Ole
Friends and relatives say things like ...
TED Talk Filmed: Feb 2009
Elizabeth Gilbert, author of the best selling book "Eat Pray Love", gives a Ted Talk about how to nurture our creativity.
Rather then burdening creatives with the label of being a genius, she looks to the ancient Greeks and Romans who believed it was the daemon (Greek) or genius (Roman) who helped the artist to create.
People say things like ...
is it logical that anybody should be afraid of the work that they feel they were put on this Earth to do?
Don't we all have these moments where we seem to find some divine inspiration?
The Greeks called these divine spirits “daemons”
The Romans called these divine spirits “a genius”
Rome
Greece
Winged genius facing a woman with a tambourine and mirror, from southern Italy, about 320 BC.
Head of a genius worshipped by Roman soldiers (found at Vindobona, 2nd century CE)
Bronze genius depicted as pater familias (1st cent. CE)
Source: Wikipedia
First you couldn't get such a big head as anything amazing you created was in part due to the divine spirit which had visited you
Secondly if your work was not as good as expected,
you had someone to share the blame with
Perhaps there was a better way to think about think about things ...
That kind of thinking warps & distorts egos ... it's too much responsibility to put on one fragile human psyche
It's like asking someone to swallow the sun
Aren't you afraid nothing is ever
going to come of it and you're
going to die on a scrap heap
of broken dreams?
http://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius.html
Please see the TED Talk on which this presentation was based on
Thank You for your time
Aren't you afraid nothing is ever
going to come of it and you're
going to die on a scrap heap
of broken dreams?
Aren't you afraid the
humiliation of rejection
will kill you?
Aren't you afraid the
humiliation of rejection
will kill you?