Elizabeth Gilbert: Big Magic

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2014

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Elizabeth Gilbert speaks with Tami Simon about the magic of creative living. Elizabeth is a novelist, essayist, and author most widely known for her bestselling memoir Eat Pray Love, and has recently released her latest novel, The Signature of All Things, which O, The Oprah Magazine calls “the novel of a lifetime.” In this episode, Elizabeth challenges the myth of the tortured artist, offering her insights for allowing creativity to be a joyous and pleasurable pursuit. She also reveals how ideas can seem like living beings who choose and are chosen to collaborate with you, and what her current growth edge is. (44 minutes)

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0:00.0	This program is brought to you by sounds true.com.
0:04.0	At sounds true.com you can find hundreds of downloadable audio
0:08.0	learning programs, plus books, music, videos, and online courses and events.
0:14.3	At sounds true.com, we think of ourselves
0:17.2	as a trusted partner on the spiritual journey,
0:20.2	offering diverse, in-depth, and life-changing wisdom.
0:24.0	Sounds True.com, many voices, one journey. You're listening to Insights at the Edge. Today my guest is Elizabeth Gilbert.
0:45.1	Elizabeth is an author, essayist, short story writer and novelist.
0:50.5	In 2006, she wrote her landmark memoir, Eat Pray Love, which spent 199 weeks on the New York
0:58.9	Times Best Seller list and sold over 10 million copies worldwide.
1:04.0	Her latest novel, The Signature of All Things,
1:08.0	is a sprawling tale of 19th century botanical exploration.
1:13.0	O magazine named it the novel of a lifetime.
1:16.7	Elizabeth Gilbert is a featured presenter at Sounds True's 2014 Wake Up Festival.
1:23.4	She'll be speaking on the topic of big magic,
1:26.4	thoughts on creative living.
1:28.9	The Wake Up Festival takes place
1:30.8	August 20th through the 24th in Estes Park, Colorado. You can go to
1:36.0	W.W. wake-up festival.com for more information.
1:41.0	In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Elizabeth and I spoke about creativity
1:47.8	as a joyful and pleasurable pursuit versus the myth of the tortured artist.
1:53.7	We talked about how ideas can be like animated beings
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