KEEP CREATING - An Inspiring Speech By Elizabeth Gilbert

and knowing that I had no way to win made me seriously consider for a while just quitting the game and and moving to the country to raise corgis but if I had done that if I had given up writing I would have lost my beloved vocation so I knew that the task was that I had to find some way to gin up the inspiration to write the next book regardless of its inevitable negative outcome in other words I had to find a way to make sure that my creativity survived its own success and I did in the end find that inspiration I found it in lessons that I had learned earlier in life about how creativity can survive its own failure so just to back up and explain the only thing I have ever wanted to be for my whole life was a writer I wrote all through childhood all through adolescence by the time I was a teenager I was sending my very bad stories to The New Yorker hoping to be discovered after college I got a job as a diner waitress kept working kept writing kept trying really hard to get published and failing at it I failed at getting published for almost 6 years so for almost 6 years every single day I had nothing but rejection letters waiting for me in my mailbox and it was devastating every single time and every single time I had to ask myself if I should just quit while I was behind and give up and spare myself this pain but then I would find my resolve and always in the same way by saying I'm not going to quit I'm going home you have to understand that for me going home did not mean returning to my family's farm for me going home meant returning to the work of writing because writing was my home because I loved writing more than I hated failing at writing which is to say that I loved writing more than I loved my own ego which is ultimately to say that I loved writing more than I loved myself and that's how I pushed through it so think of it like this for most of your life you live out your existence here in the middle of the chain of human experience where everything is normal and reassuring and regular but failure catapults you abruptly way out over here into the blinding darkness of disappointment success catapults you just as abruptly but just as far way out over here into the equally blinding glare of fame and recognition and praise and one of these fates is objectively seen by the world is bad the other one is objectively seen by the world is good but your subconscious is completely incapable of discerning the difference between bad and good the only thing that it is capable of feeling is the absolute value of this emotional equation the exact distance that you have been flung from yourself and there's a real equal danger in both cases of getting lost out there in the hinterlands of the psyche but in both cases it turns out that there is also the same remedy for self restoration and that is that you have got to find your way back home again as swiftly and smoothly as you can and if you're wondering what your home is here's a hint your home is whatever in this world you love more than you love yourself so that might be creativity it might be family might be invention adventure faith service might be raising corgis I don't know your home is that thing to which you can dedicate your energies with such singular devotion that the ultimate results become inconsequential for me that home has always been writing and I stayed in my home of writing after that and I wrote another book that just came out last year and that one was really beautifully received which is very nice but not my point my point is that I'm writing another one now and I'll write another book after that and another and another and another and many of them will fail and some of them might succeed but I will always be safe from the random Hurricanes of outcome as long as I never forget where I rightfully live look I don't know where you rightfully live but I know that there's something in this world that you love more than you love yourself something worthy by the way so addiction and in saturation don't count because we all know that those are not safe places to live right the only trick is that you've got to identify the best worthy esteem that you love most and then build your house right on top of it and don't budge from it and if you should someday somehow get vaulted out of your home by either great failure or great success then your job is to fight your way back to that home the only way that it has ever been done by putting your head down and performing with diligence and devotion and respect and reverence whatever the task is that love is calling forth from you next you just do that and keep doing that again and again and again and I can absolutely promise you from long personal experience in every direction I can assure you all gonna be okay [Music]

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Length: 4min 38sec (278 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 23 2020