
Steven Pressfield has shown us that artists who truly care will always have to face their fears, even long after they’ve become huge successes.Įlizabeth Gilbert agrees. There’s a lot of talk out there these days that you “have to overcome your fears.” As if somehow, you could do something, and that would magically make them go away forever. If you want to save this summary for later, download the free PDF and read it whenever you want.ĭownload PDF Lesson 1: Let your fears coexist with your passions. Got a novel inside you? A painting that wants to come out? Let’s get creative!

Keep your day job to fuel your creative affair.Let your fears coexist with your passions.It’ll teach you how to be creative in spite of your fears, how ideas work, where creativity comes from, and how you can make sure your creativity keeps flowing freely. Big Magic is a non-fiction book, that describes her creative process. The book spent almost 200 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list.

Listen to the audio of this summary with a free reading.fm account:Įlizabeth Gilbert is best known for publishing the international bestseller Eat, Pray, Love in 2006, which was turned into a movie with Julia Roberts in 2010.Įat, Pray, Love is Gilbert‘s memoir of the year she spent traveling the world after getting a divorce, where she focused on food in Italy, found her spirituality in India and ultimately fell in love again in Bali.
