Truth Telling and Self-Mercy with Elizabeth Gilbert
The Chase Jarvis LIVE Show
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Mercy for the Inevitability of Disappointment
Mercy is the fundamental word that is coming to me as a short answer to that question. Mercy for self, Mercy for others, Mercy for the inevitable disappointment that you're going to feel when you make something and it's not what you wanted it to be. You know, my beloved friend Anne Patchett, the novelist, has this great way of describing this where she says like her favorite part of the creative process is when she's in the dreaming state of it. She describes it as a tourmaline butterfly, like a butterfly made out of gems that it catches the light so beautifully,. It's so exquisite, it's so perfect, this is going to be the one,
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