📚 Book Club: Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert ✨
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Are you completely satisfied letting fear dictate what you create and how you express yourself to the world?
This month, we are exploring a profoundly inspiring approach to creativity with Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear. You don't need to be a professional artist or writer to benefit from this book. Elizabeth Gilbert argues that a "creative life" is simply a life driven more strongly by curiosity than by fear.
Whether you want to write a novel, make art, find new ways to solve problems at work, or just infuse your daily routine with more mindfulness and passion, this book offers a magical mindset shift. We will discuss how to embrace curiosity, tackle the projects we most love, and face down the anxieties that keep us paralyzed. It is a brilliant examination of how ideas work and how we can invite more inspiration into our lives.
As highlighted on Goodreads, the celebrated author brings a wealth of life experience and literary success to this topic:
> Elizabeth Gilbert is an award-winning writer of both fiction and non-fiction. Her short story collection Pilgrims was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway award, and her novel Stern Men was a New York Times notable book. Her 2002 book The Last American Man was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critic’s Circle Award.
> Her memoir, Eat, Pray, Love, spent 57 weeks in the #1 spot on the New York Times paperback bestseller list. It has shipped over 6 million copies in the US and has been published in over thirty languages. A film adaptation of the book was released by Columbia Pictures with an all star cast: Julia Roberts as Gilbert, Javier Bardem as Felipe, James Franco as David, Billy Crudup as her ex-husband and Richard Jenkins as Richard from Texas.
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> Her latest novel, The Signature of All Things, will be available on October 1, 2013. The credit for her profile picture belongs to Jennifer Schatten.
Whether you're feeling creatively stuck, looking for a spark of inspiration, or just want to live with more joy and less anxiety, this discussion is for you. Come join us to uncover the "strange jewels" hidden within you and learn how to live a more vibrant, creative life!