In her twenty minute TED presentation, author of Eat, Pray, Love Elizabeth Gilbert proposes the idea that perhaps creative genius comes from some mystical external source rather than from within.  Instead of a person “being” a genius, perhaps each of us “has” a genius.

As artists, it’s fairly easy to get into self deprecating funks. By nature, we’re dreamers. We have lofty ideas of what we want to do and where we want to be with are careers. But rarely do we have an actual game plan for getting there. That’s where rock climbing comes [...]