Genius is We, not You!

If you haven’t seen this Ted talk with Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing genius, please watch it when you have time. In a strange way, her thoughts related to genius align well with Christopher Alexander’s concept of the unselfconscious society. The idea that with the renaissance, we created a modern of notion of individual genius. Elizabeth talks about how previous generations viewed genius as something disembodied and not tied to the individual, not unlike little elves that visited to lend a creative hand. It’s about we not you!

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