Nurturing Creativity.

I am working on an especially challenging assignment right now.  It is challenging and draining in equal parts.

Add the hectic holiday season to the mix and my creativity--the very thing I am paid for--suffers.

Besides the occasional glass of wine to cope--okay, a stiff gin and tonic (or two)--it helps to hear how other creative types cope.  And how they reignite the flame.

I love what author Elizabeth Gilbert says in her TED lecture on creativity and clarity about having a "divine cock-eyed genius assigned to your case." 

She should know.  She had to top her massive international bestseller Eat Love Pray.

I believe my "genius" wears red shoes.  And drinks G&Ts.


http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius.html