Elizabeth Gilbert 1: Your elusive creative genius

TED 2009
Elizabeth Gilbert: Your elusive creative genius (script)
The speaker is an author of 'Eat, Pray, Love.' This is a famous book in the world.
Summary
For the last 500 years, the pressure and great expectations have been killing off artists and geniuses. Especially, after one big success, people's expectations are too big. Creativity and suffering are inherent in artists. The artistry will always ultimately lead to anguish, because in the first place, only an artist was a genius.
However, a person is not a genius, but all people "have" a genius. Creativity came from human beings. It seems to be a divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant unknowable source. So disembodied genius helps you and you are protected. You can think that you are on loan to you from some unimaginable source.
Thus, if your work was brilliant, you couldn't take all the credit for it. If you failed, your genius was kind of lame.
Those thoughts will ease your pressure.
And then, it's simple, you change how to use your genius a little bit, when the idea which is your genius come to you from nowhere. You forget the trouble that is between you want ideas, and you think that you have to get it really now.
You don't have to be this internalized. You should have conversations between ideas and you. Although it is a little bit strange, don't be afraid and daunted. Just do your job.
Our creative genius will be elusive, but it is important for us to be able to continue having our passion what we want to do.
Words in this story
divine /di·-vine/dɪˈvaɪn/ relating to a god,
disembody /dis·-em·-bod·-y/ˌdɪs ɛmˈbɒd i/ to divest (a soul, spirit, etc.) of a body.
bombed /bɒmd/ completely intoxicated, drunk.
daunted /dɔnt, dɑnt/ to overcome with fear,intimidate.
elusive /e·-lu·-sive/ɪˈlu sɪv/ difficult to find, catch, or achieve.
lame /leɪm/  (of a person or animal) unable to walk normally because of an injury or illness affecting the leg or foot.
doom / something very bad that is going to happen, or the fact that it is going to happen
distant / far away in space or time.
distance /noun/ the amount of space between two places or things.