Elizabeth Gilbert, a famous author, spoke at TED about nurturing creativity.  In it she describes how the ancient Greeks and Romans considered creative energy exerted by an artist or scholar as coming from a divine source — in Greece this was a “daemon” and in Rome it was a “genius”.  By the time the Renaissance came, an individual person was thought to originate creativity from within themselves (“rational humanism“).  After the Renaissance, a creative person might BE a genius rather than HAVE a genius.  Elizabeth Gilbert wishes we could go back the ancient times, because it places a great burden on creative people to think that they are the beginning and end of their own creative success.  This was a fascinating lecture that resonated with me when I saw it.

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