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On Being with Krista Tippett

[Unedited] Elizabeth Gilbert with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

On Being Studios

Sociology, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Krista Tippett, Arts, Culture, On Being, Society, Society & Culture, Science, Social Sciences

4.710.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2018

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Her name is synonymous with her fantastically best-selling memoir “Eat Pray Love.” But through the disorienting process of becoming a celebrity, Elizabeth Gilbert has also reflected deeply on the gift and challenge of inhabiting a creative life. Creativity, as she defines it, is about choosing curiosity over fear — not to be confused with the more familiar trope to “follow your passion,” but rather as something accessible to us all and good for our life together. This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode “Elizabeth Gilbert — Choosing Curiosity Over Fear.” Find more at onbeing.org

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I'm Christa Tippett and this is on Beang's Unheard Cuts. Up next, my unedited conversation with

1:01.8

author Elizabeth Gilbert. There's a shorter, produced version of this conversation at Apple podcasts

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or wherever you like to listen. Hello? Come for it. Hello? Hi. Is that Liz? Yes, it is.

1:16.7

I'm so glad to be talking to you. Oh my goodness. I just said to Paul, I am so excited to be talking

1:23.2

to Christa Tippett. Hi, sweetheart. Hi. We made it last. I know. I'm kind of surprised we've never met.

1:31.3

I know. I mean, it's not that we exactly move in the same circles, but we move in some of this.

1:36.2

We move in a lot of concentric circles that you think would have overlapped into some sort of a

1:41.6

Vem diagram of us being the same at the same time. Maybe it will happen now. I hope so.

1:46.7

And I send regards from Miriam as well. Oh, the wonderful. Right. Well, that's one thing we have in

1:54.3

common. Yes. And Sarah, right? Two things. Two really important things. Yes.

1:59.9

Yes. Exactly. And also just congratulations on your book. It's so beautiful. It's so beautiful.

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I can't wait till it's out in the world. Everybody can read it next week. Oh, God.

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