Elizabeth Gilbert: Success, failure and the drive to keep creating
Elizabeth Gilbert: Jak přestát úspěch i neúspěch a nepřestat tvořit
The author of 'Eat, Pray, Love,' Elizabeth Gilbert has thought long and hard about some big topics. Her fascinations: genius, creativity and how we get in our own way when it comes to both. Full bio
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grateful to be that person,
že jsem to já,
"Jíst, meditovat, milovat"
napsat znovu knihu,
had adored "Eat, Pray, Love"
"Jíst meditovat, milovat",
čímkoli, co napíšu,
"Jíst, meditovat, milovat."
had hated "Eat, Pray, Love"
nesnášeli,
čímkoliv, co napíšu,
že pořád žiju.
že v žádném případě nevyhraju,
svůj vlastní úspěch.
na nejméně pravděpodobném
svůj vlastní neúspěch.
all through adolescence,
až do dospívání,
ptát sama sebe,
returning to my family's farm.
vrátit se na rodinnou farmu.
than I hated failing at writing,
než jsem nenáviděla prohru,
s "Jíst, meditovat, milovat",
pořád jsem na ni myslela,
have been more different.
nejdivočejších snech.
na to snažila přijít,
we experience great failure
prožíváme prohru
and reassuring and regular,
seen by the world as good,
není schopné
emocionální rovnice.
byli odhozeni
find your way back home again
milujete víc než sami sebe.
stejně matoucím neúspěchem.
a díky tomu jsem
a bylo to v pořádku.
že jsem zrušila kletbu
jen z lásky k psaní.
are not safe places to live. Right?
že to nejsou bezpečná místa k životu. Že?
co milujete nejvíc,
probojovat si cestu zpátky domů.
way back to that home
from long personal experience
z mnoha oblastí vám můžu
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Elizabeth Gilbert - WriterThe author of 'Eat, Pray, Love,' Elizabeth Gilbert has thought long and hard about some big topics. Her fascinations: genius, creativity and how we get in our own way when it comes to both.
Why you should listen
Elizabeth Gilbert faced down a premidlife crisis by doing what we all secretly dream of -- running off for a year. Her travels through Italy, India and Indonesia resulted in the megabestselling and deeply beloved memoir Eat, Pray, Love, about her process of finding herself by leaving home.
She's a longtime magazine writer -- covering music and politics for Spin and GQ -- as well as a novelist and short-story writer. Her books include the story collection Pilgrims, the novel Stern Men (about lobster fishermen in Maine) and a biography of the woodsman Eustace Conway, called The Last American Man. Her work has been the basis for two movies so far (Coyote Ugly, based on her own tale of working at the famously raunchy bar in New York City), and Eat, Pray, Love, with the part of Gilbert played by Julia Roberts. Not bad for a year off.
In 2010, Elizabeth published Committed, a memoir exploring her ambivalent feelings about the institution of marriage. And her 2013 novel, The Signature of All Things, is "a sprawling tale of 19th century botanical exploration."
Gilbert also owns and runs the import shop Two Buttons in Frenchtown, New Jersey.
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