Wonderful little presentation.

Posted by on Aug 13, 2010 in Uncategorized | 2 Comments

I came across this lit­tle video on a speech deliv­ered by Eliz­a­beth Gilbert, best sell­ing author of Eat, Pray, Love this morn­ing while I was lying, warm and snug­gled in my bed.

I had just woken up after another crazy late night work­ing till 5am — which I love by the way, so I’m not com­plain­ing, and I was check­ing out my emails and any new inter­est­ing Face­book updates so I guess I kinda dis­cov­ered it by acci­dent since I don’t really pay too much atten­tion to peo­ple post­ing vids.

Most likely it is because I have grap­pled with such issues in the past, regard­ing cre­ativ­ity blocks that I really enjoyed lis­ten­ing to this alter­na­tive method of deal­ing with suc­cess and failures.

It’s sim­i­lar to some of the sen­ti­ments and ways of think­ing laid out in The Artist’s Way, but deliv­ered with some good natured humour, warmth and emo­tion that is dif­fi­cult to get from the writ­ten word.

Hope you enjoy it and if you wish to dis­cuss it or com­ment about it, please feel free to use the com­ment sec­tion below.

Stay chilled.

D-Man

2 Comments

  1. Ethan Karnopp
    August 18, 2010

    I’ve seen this before but for what­ever rea­son watch­ing it again just now had a more pro­found impact, maybe because of my posi­tion in life. I’m bor­der­line manic and can attribute a lot of it to whit­tling away end­lessly at my craft and to lis­ten to this brings me to some weird place between acknowl­edg­ing its truth and com­plete skep­ti­cism. While fun­da­men­tal con­cept of art and design can be honed to a tee inspi­ra­tion comes and goes and with­out that fun­da­men­tals can be vir­tu­ally use­less. It’s weird to think about, and I’m not sure where I stand on the mat­ter, but regard­less, great food for thought. Thanks.

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    • Darren Yeow
      August 22, 2010

      No prob­lems, it’s in our nature to be per­fec­tion­ists, but that shouldn’t stop us from being happy =)

      Cheers, Daz

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