Elizabeth Gilbert on What is Creative Living | Acumen Academy

Start leading a life driven more by curiosity than fear.
In this course, Elizabeth Gilbert the best-selling author of books including Eat Pray Love, Committed, The Signature of All Things and Big Magic will equip you with the practical tools and inspiration to jumpstart your own creative journey. She’ll bring key lessons from her bestselling book, Big Magic, and offer coaching and insights that expand beyond the chapters. For those who struggle to get started, Elizabeth will respond directly to three common dilemmas change-makers face. You will walk away equipped with the practical tools and inspiration to help push your own creative projects into the next gear.

Whether you are an entrepreneur or an artist, you’ll learn about how to pursue a life driven more by curiosity than fear. Each of the 5 sections will be accompanied by Creativity Notebooks that offer practical exercises to put each new concept into practice in your own life and actually get started. Through a self-paced journey of reflection, you’ll pinpoint your creative blockages; mine your sources of curiosity; corral your ideas on paper; and unlock your own capacity to get something done.

Learn How To
🔍 Identify your passions and ways to get started pursuing creative projects
⏰ Structure your creative life with a framework for breaking down your time
🗓 Prioritize your own creative fulfillment so that you can better serve others
🎨 Kickstart creative projects that have stalled

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[mohammedalinaik]

How well you explain Ma'am. Simple words ... no jargons .... no heavy I loved it.

[dhanaazm]

Wow you are one of favourite writers. May your tribe increase.

[Nate]

It’s intuition you are talking about, inner voice that always leads us where we need to go

[billiblue]

I agree that when you CAN, when you Have the ressources to go towards curiosity, do it as much as you can. Unfortunately, a lot of people do not have materials, health, access, ... to ressources to go there. It is a privilege, also.

[TheFreidaCollection]

OMG!!! Wow!!! To be curious!!! Now I’m curious.Thank you Thank Thank you!!!

[aberabou-rahma]

I agree with you that the path of fear almost always defies and is opposing to the pass of curiosity, and we should always consider discovering and exploring the things that comes / falls across our pass of curiosity form time to time.

Though, I am not sure why you are categorizing and considering the voice of inner conscious a pass of fear (whether it is coming from gained ethics, religion, cultural habits, believe or God, and/or experience).
I would rather categorize all of the above (whether it is coming from gained ethics, religion, cultural habits, believe or God, and/or experience) as "any path" guidelines which guards us while exploring our curiosity/ies that lie/s within the "path of curiosity" as well as facing our fear/s within the "Path of fear", if you will...

[simiancinema]

Completely not true. "Passion" is real. Our ordinary lives beat it out of us. But it is not hard to hold it and cherish it. And it has a lot more power than "curiosity, " which one might view as another word for that which keeps us scrolling through our phones.