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Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert
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Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love, reflects on the pressure placed on artists to be geniuses. She proposes the older idea that creative people have a genius that visits them rather than being one.
HN people link it in threads about creativity, late bloomers and creative burnout as a humble, relatable take on where inspiration comes from.
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