#430: Elizabeth Gilbert’s Creative Path: Saying No, Trusting Your Intuition, Index Cards, Integrity Checks, Grief, Awe, and Much More
The Tim Ferriss Show
Tim Ferriss: Bestselling Author, Human Guinea Pig
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🗓️ 9 May 2020
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Elizabeth Gilbert’s Amazing Creative Toolkit: Saying No, Trusting Intuition, Seeking Awe, Bathing in Grief, and Index Cards | Brought to you by Thrive Market and Athletic Greens. More on both below.
“We live in a culture that says you should be able to power through anything. Life will very generously remind you that you cannot, and it will very generously break you at times and very generously show you.” — Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth Gilbert (@GilbertLiz) is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Magic and Eat, Pray, Love, as well as several other internationally bestselling books. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the PEN/Hemingway Award. Her latest novel, City of Girls, was named an instant New York Times Best Seller and is a rollicking, sexy tale of the New York City theater world during the 1940s.
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| 0:05.9 | Can I also your personal question? |
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| 0:09.9 | What if I did the alpha? |
| 0:11.9 | I'm a cyber nanny organism living this show on metal-hinted scale |
| 0:15.9 | Lee-Tem-Farris-Show |
| 0:23.9 | This episode is brought to you by Thrive Market |
| 0:26.4 | Thrive Market saves me a ton of money and it's perfect for these crazy times |
| 0:30.3 | Thrive Market is a membership-based site on a mission to make healthy living easy and affordable for everyone |
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