Elizabeth Gilbert - author of the best-selling book Eat, Pray, Love - speaks at the TED conference on "the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses". She talks about how, after the runaway success of her book, everyone now treats her as if she is "doomed".
People say to her: "Aren't you afraid that you're never going to be able to top that? Aren't you afraid you are going to keep writing for your whole life and you're never again going to create a book that anyone in the world cares about at all? Ever? Again?"
Elizabeth takes a humorous and inspiration look that instead of the rare person "being" a genius, all of us "have" a genius. For any writer, it's worth watching.
