TLS #100 with Elizabeth Gilbert: Curiosity, Epic Self-Compassion, and Creativity
The Lively Show
Bella Lively
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2015
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Episode 100.
And my 31st birthday.
These are three things that are all happening today on The Lively Show, and I’m pinching myself to make sure this isn’t just a dream….
…. A lovely dream that I cannot wait to share with you!
Today we’re talking with worldwide bestselling author, Elizabeth Gilbert – of Big Magic, and Eat Pray Love fame – about a wide range of topics including creativity, the fetishization of passion, the magic of curiosity, and the importance of epic doses of self-compassion.
This episode is perfect for anyone looking to have a more compassionate + creative life, career, and relationship with themselves.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL FIND OUT ABOUT
- How Elizabeth’s childhood spent living on a farm contributed to her creativity.
- Why Elizabeth doesn’t preach passion to others, and what she thinks is a better alternative to passion.
- How she is repurposing and reclaiming the word “entitlement.”
- Why Elizabeth believes people shouldn’t quit their day jobs in order to be creative.
- Why she thinks service is not effective if you don’t love the work.
- How Elizabeth is able to avoid martyrdom in her life and solve conflicts in a creative and playful way.
- Why self compassion is essential for a joyful and beautiful life.
- How Elizabeth distinguishes between the soul and the ego and how her soul has kept her going through rejection and scrutiny.
- What she believes is the best way to help others.
- How Elizabeth has come to understand and work with her psychological creative cycles.
- What Elizabeth would tell someone just starting out on this journey.
SHOW NOTES
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The Lively Show. |
| 0:01.9 | Episode 100. |
| 0:03.4 | Welcome to the Lively Show. |
| 0:07.2 | I'm your host Jess Lively and this blogcast is designed to uplift, inspire, and |
| 0:11.4 | add a little extra intention to your everyday. |
| 0:14.0 | Welcome to the show guys. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome to the show guys. |
| 0:22.0 | Thank you so much as always for listening, especially today on episode 100. |
| 0:28.0 | Today's sponsor is Squarespace.com. |
| 0:30.0 | Feel free to go over to Squarespace.com slash lively for your free 14 day trial |
| 0:35.0 | and use the code lively at check out to get 10% off of your service. |
| 0:39.0 | At the end of this episode we will be speaking with Bryn Hunt Palmer about Squarespace.com in more detail and we have a new |
| 0:46.1 | sponsor today audible.com which I'm so excited to partner with because I want to give you guys free |
| 0:52.0 | books and this is my way to do so. |
| 0:54.0 | So if you haven't read Big Magic already or even if you have and you want to read a different book for free, |
| 1:00.0 | head over audible.com slash lively in order to get your free first book. |
| 1:04.9 | I'm so excited since we have so many authors on the show to be able to partner with |
| 1:09.0 | audible and give you guys these free books so that I'm not constantly sending you guys to the library or |
| 1:14.0 | to Amazon to buy them directly. |
| 1:16.4 | And now on to today's show. |
| 1:18.1 | This is episode 100 with Elizabeth Gilbert on my 31st birthday. |
| 1:23.4 | I am so grateful to be able to say all three of those things in one sentence. |
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