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Your elusive creative genius - Elizabeth Gilbert

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Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses -- and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person "being" a genius, all of us "have" a genius. It's a funny, personal and surprisingly moving talk.

In Gilbert's story about the sacred dances in North Africa centuries ago, what would happen when the people witnessed a dancer step through some kind of portal and no longer appear merely human?

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