This is a post composed of old news and links that are new to me, but from earlier in 2009. I encountered it today by way of a train crash type of Metafilter post about the new iPhone app from Pepsi that helps you “score” with women.
But the discussion that’s completely tangential in that thread about genius, creativity and getting started is one that I thought might help some folks close to me, and folks not so close.
The tangential discussion starts with Merlin Mann’s post on 43 Folders about getting it together just enough to get a project or a piece of creativity started (and overcoming the fear of sucking). (The commonality here with the Metafilter post is that Merlin’s talk in part addresses “The Seduction Community”.)
And Merlin links to Elizabeth Gilbert’s talk on TED about having achieved her unbelievable creative success at 40, when she still probably has 4 decades left of creativity. And about how it might be a mistake to assume that only the special among us are geniuses and creative but instead maybe we all have it in us. So she talks about getting going – the creative impulse and process.