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“I believe in an always life”: a conversation with Elizabeth Gilbert on love, death and grief

In this excerpt from the brand-new podcast The TED Interview, the beloved writer tells us how she is learning to live with loss.

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We humans

How to be more hopeful

8 TED speakers show you how to nudge your mind toward the sunny side

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We humans

Fear is boring, and other tips for living a creative life

“Eat Pray Love” author Elizabeth Gilbert shares 11 ways to think smartly about creativity and how to live a meaningful creative life.

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We humans

Ireland is the “goodest” country in the world? Oh c’mon. And other of this week’s comments

This week’s comments includes replies to Simon Anholt’s introduction of the Good Country Index, a thought on the purity of art (and how we have polluted it with money), and an argument for trusting our own intellectual selves.

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Elizabeth Gilbert: The 7 books that shaped me as a writer

In her second TED Talk, “Success, failure and the drive to keep creating,” Elizabeth Gilbert came clean about the often unglamorous life of a writer. The one thing that never wavered: her love of the written word. Here, she shares seven books that have sustained her through it all.

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