Elizabeth Gilbert shows up for ... everything

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🗓️ 22 November 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Introducing The TED Interview, a new podcast hosted by head of TED Chris Anderson. As a writer, Elizabeth Gilbert is notorious for placing her heart squarely on her sleeve. Her best-selling memoir "Eat Pray Love" was a sensation precisely because of her eloquent, open-hearted descriptions of fear, divorce and wanting everything life had to offer. When she spoke at TED back in 2009, she charmed the audience with her frank descriptions of what happened after the book became a runaway success and her lyrical ideas of the nature of creativity. Nearly ten years later, in this extraordinarily intimate conversation with Chris Anderson, she shares why openness, transparency and creativity are still central to her philosophy of life -- even when faced with moments of desperation and personal tragedy.

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone. You're about to hear something different. This is an episode from another podcast from
0:05.3	Ted called The Ted Interview. It's hosted by the head of Ted, Chris Anderson, and in this one, he sits down with iconic author Elizabeth Gilbert. In a very intimate conversation, she shares why openness, transparency, and creativity are so central to her philosophy of life, even when
0:23.5	faced with moments of desperation and personal tragedy. If you enjoy the episode, you can
0:28.9	subscribe to the TED interview wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, everyone. Welcome to the TED
0:35.5	interview. This is Chris Anderson, the guy lucky enough to run TED.
0:40.8	Here at TED, we're borderline obsessed with the power of ideas. Ideas are such weird things.
0:47.2	You know, they get inside your head and they might just give you a little piece of knowledge,
0:50.6	or they might actually really reshape how you see the world. They can even change who you are.
0:55.8	They're this powerful common currency that humans have and can share with each other. Now, we normally
1:01.5	share them in the form of TED talks, which are, you know, recorded on a stage, 12, 15, 18 minutes at a time.
1:09.5	But here's the thing about ideas.
1:11.9	They don't just land perfectly formed.
1:14.5	They want to be critiqued, played with, iterated on.
1:18.4	And sometimes that takes longer than 18 minutes.
1:22.6	So in the series, I'll be having hour-long conversations
1:25.9	with some of the most compelling TED speakers to dive deeper, learn more.
1:31.6	And there is no better medium to do that dance than podcasting.
1:37.8	On this first episode, my guest is author Elizabeth Gilbert.
1:43.5	15 years ago, in response to a personal crisis, she took a trip
1:47.8	around the world and wrote about it, and that book, Eat, Pray, Love, became a global phenomenon,
1:54.7	topping bestseller lists for years. In 2009, Liz came to the TED stage to talk about how hard
2:00.5	it was to follow that success with another book.
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