Big Think Interview With Elizabeth Gilbert | Big Think

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  • @bigthink
    @bigthink  4 ปีที่แล้ว

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  • @colleenglavey7208
    @colleenglavey7208 9 ปีที่แล้ว +69

    I could listen to her for hours and hours...

    • @sweetyc031
      @sweetyc031 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Colleen Glavey same! Just her voice is soothing

    • @yorocco1
      @yorocco1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You could always listen to her in jail. Looks like a lot of people here were duped by this narcissist.

    • @aimerynth
      @aimerynth 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      It happens the same to me!

  • @google2com
    @google2com 12 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I love her voice, there's a send of calmness and peace about her

  • @m5man2
    @m5man2 9 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    Very moved by her honesty and intelligence.

  • @janetzolacruz5204
    @janetzolacruz5204 9 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    I like when she talks about being compassionate and not to punish ourselves for decisions that we made in the past. We made the best decision that we could with what we had. So ten years later we shouldn't regret. Love her!

  • @ClueFinderDirtDigger
    @ClueFinderDirtDigger 9 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    Seriously adore this woman.

    • @hakitayloo4569
      @hakitayloo4569 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Madison Bouse My thoughts exactly!

  • @Levandetag
    @Levandetag 8 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    ...the most wonderful lovely speach I´ve listened to in a long time
    Wise Wise Wise. Healthy Open Honest Love.
    Beautiful to listen to

  • @ritterac
    @ritterac 10 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    She is so fantastic! Clarity and recognition of her gift of writing ~ then she went for it ~ as we all need to follow our passions and dreams. Focus is my word of the day!

  • @ritterac
    @ritterac 10 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Would love to just sit down with her over a cup of coffee and chat and chat and chat!!

    • @ciancurran1165
      @ciancurran1165 10 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      she's wise

    • @Zaharkina
      @Zaharkina 9 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      When i listening Elizabeth, i feel like cloudy warm blanket around my shoulders. It feels so good.

    • @RussianwithAnastasia
      @RussianwithAnastasia 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      me too!!!!

  • @maxrashadaty1612
    @maxrashadaty1612 9 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    She is awesome: her book "Eat Pray Love" changed my life:):) Good job Elizabeth.

  • @mylongwaydown
    @mylongwaydown 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    wow.. never before in my 30 years have I listened to someone that beyond much relate to and agree with absolutely on every goddamn point and remark made while still finding and receiving an enormous amount of inspiration from it... that also made me feel so nice and cozy and finally understood and belonging in a way ugh I can't really explain it but wow. I laughed, I cried, I paused to process, I feel like a slightly(?) better self now
    I haven't even read any of the books and never seen the movie (should I say ive been pretty judgmental and eye-rolling about it and had not zero but negative desire to even bother with a trailer)
    Thank you!

  • @AlokanandaJi
    @AlokanandaJi 8 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Super sincere, refreshing

  • @giapearson77
    @giapearson77 9 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Oh my gosh! The CURSE! I can write, I can paint, I can draw, I can sing. Thank the saints at least I can't play a musical instrument. Lol! Someone finally understands that having multiple talents and interests can be such a disadvantage. It's like have multiple personalities creatively and being pulled in every direction at once. For me personally , it's left me utterly lost, without identity or purpose.

    • @joy-lopes
      @joy-lopes 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      I hear ya :( It's bad and good. Certainly confusing.

    • @finze1
      @finze1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Pick one!

  • @zenwithamit
    @zenwithamit 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I loved the point where she mentioned that "I want my partner to inspire me everyday and that's a lot to ask in marriage". She is so right to say because I think we cannot have marriage with expectation but with space where each one can grow in their own way.

  • @prolificliving
    @prolificliving 11 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    That is JUSt it. This woman's voice just calms me!!!

  • @williamregister5088
    @williamregister5088 10 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I love this woman...

  • @TheCaithleen
    @TheCaithleen 10 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Liz, you have an insatiable thirst for clarity!!!! Eat Pray Love for me ,is a mirror of Feminine Manifestation in our human consciousness in that we are all Universal beings, willing to be all we can be, when we receive and allow relaxation into that of what is,original and personal for each of us

  • @geethi23
    @geethi23 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Insightful woman....i crave absolutely everything all the time, all professions, all skills, all information

  • @pathwaysmadepublic
    @pathwaysmadepublic 11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    She has such a great smile!

  • @maggiees5623
    @maggiees5623 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    really love her! truly awesome and inspiring person!😊

  • @StarWoors
    @StarWoors 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    I found this video right on time! Great material.

  • @TracyJaneQ
    @TracyJaneQ 9 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I love the whole hiding in a cave process when you're writing…. I can totally relate to this Elizabeth ;)

  • @PadriVeum
    @PadriVeum 11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    i don't think you heard her correctly. she said it's arguably easier to find time to meditate in prison than when you have a job, a family and all those other pressures and commitments. i work with prisoners, they definitely agree with her.

  • @miriamrokeach2910
    @miriamrokeach2910 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    you are a very wonderful person and woman ,continue writing good works

  • @KenDeeMay
    @KenDeeMay 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    yes you're right... it's maybe hard to explain it in english for me.. but for a woman who has not grown up with a religious education and who comes from NY and everything that this mean nowadays,, she find a way to be peacefull in her mind, I find this admirable. Even though I know that wedding is sacred, she made her husband free from her non true love for him.. so after a while he will (i hope) find the right girl who will love him as he deserve, and completely. But yes you're right

  • @fernandov1492
    @fernandov1492 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    I liked what she said about the U.S. being a young country

  • @Nia-bl2vn
    @Nia-bl2vn 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I admire her

  • @brookeschmidt8482
    @brookeschmidt8482 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I wish I could talk like her!! She’s so clear and natural! She sounds like me if I had just taken 30mg of adderall

  • @vilstand5854
    @vilstand5854 ปีที่แล้ว

    i feel calm listening to her

  • @cannae216
    @cannae216 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Damn, she's good! I just had a message typed up about how she's wrong at 37:45 because I'm 37 and a guy with kids and I feel the same way... Just listened to the rest of her thought and well, shit.

  • @Mimi25291
    @Mimi25291 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Loved hearing her pour out her mind out but it was strange it not being an interview because she is such phenomenal 2 way conversationalist especially when she vibes with the other person

  • @MissJanieHere
    @MissJanieHere 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    retrospective regret... most definitely something I spent too much time on as young woman and so definitely not what I intend to spend more time on as I age. Thank you for sharing this conversation.

  • @300fleets
    @300fleets 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Liz Gilbert, you're also talented at talking! Some of us are not!

  • @dimplesharmalyngdoh628
    @dimplesharmalyngdoh628 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Eat, pray and love worked because many women has very similar story

  • @98nfp
    @98nfp ปีที่แล้ว

    *watching*

  • @Jefferdaughter
    @Jefferdaughter 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    In many ways, 'Metropolis' has become true. People live to serve 'the machine'. In primitive societies, every child was celebrated. Children gathered, fished, built... practiced the skills of that culture w/ parents & relatives. There were exceptions... but as life became increasingly industrial, 'work' became more dangerous & separated from 'life' & family. Now we live to work; home is a pitstop. Families spend little time together & most of that watching a screen. Food for thought.

  • @Jefferdaughter
    @Jefferdaughter 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    ...women knew how to control their own reproductive lives. They knew how to space children, what to do to help prevent conception, which plants would prevent a pregnancy from developing. And the reverse. Somewhere certain societies took a turn, from celebrating women as the source of life - the ultimate gift - to reducing life to a burden, an 'accident' in an unfeeling mechanical universe. Now, if you are not a cog in the gov't/industrial wheel, do you have value? Or a place in society?

  • @KenDeeMay
    @KenDeeMay 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    she is one of the smartest person I know
    I dont think your "spirituality" is more real you know if you just spiting on other people without even spend an hour in person with them

  • @ToucanTorte
    @ToucanTorte 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    29:36

  • @AnnaMishel
    @AnnaMishel 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A writer is interested in EVERYTHING! I don't know what you mean.

  • @jccarbunkle
    @jccarbunkle 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    She thinks it better to be in prison, so you can meditate? She's spiritual to the point where she's lost touch with reality

  • @lovesart99
    @lovesart99 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    MARVELOUSidealmaker

  • @litteringGlitter
    @litteringGlitter 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    "their attention is kind of fragmented across many fields..."... lol yes that can be tricky, and it certainly makes it hard to narrow down your focus, especially if your brain is a bit borderline and you feel like everything and nothing at the same time

  • @litteringGlitter
    @litteringGlitter 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    excellent points, i took a look at your channel and found some interesting videos on there, but it would be cool if you made more comments, because based on your comments for this video i'm sure people would be interested to get your take on many other things, i know i am

  • @Professor_Taiga-Vanguard
    @Professor_Taiga-Vanguard 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    i fall people, men, women, young and old, this world would be great.

  • @Jefferdaughter
    @Jefferdaughter 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you, litteringGlitter. In the '1st world', we are told we are are healthier, happier, 'free-er' & have more leasure than people anywhere on the planet, anytime in history. A close look at the facts would show us that these are all false. Life has challenges for everyone, of any race, of any gender, in any society, in any time. I think we all have interesting things to say, sing, show, and share with each other. Best to you!

  • @KaterinaTalantliva
    @KaterinaTalantliva 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    well, one of the reasons for book's success (which i loved btw) is several mentionings of 9/11...

  • @sophieruggles
    @sophieruggles 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    I so agree about being multi focused..how I envy you!

  • @elvansavkl7972
    @elvansavkl7972 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    the funny thing about this interview when she speaks about obama , obama was not real so this hope thing was not real. so ,this part of the thing about america was not so great.

  • @GrandMasterFreshMpls
    @GrandMasterFreshMpls 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Do you agree with my expanded/elaborated argument?

  • @Jefferdaughter
    @Jefferdaughter 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Women are feced with conflicts between work or 'career' and family for the first time not only because they have had more opportunity in the industrial/ paternalistic culture -in which men have also been reduced to cogs in the machine (whether it be an electronic one); but also because of two other factors: family life and 'work' used to be much closer together, even the same, as people found, produced, and bartered for what they needed or wanted - AND because women used to have knowledge on...

  • @TwoSet
    @TwoSet 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Eat Love Pray. Get divorce #2

  • @queuesnake704
    @queuesnake704 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Holy Journey, eh?

  • @queuesnake704
    @queuesnake704 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Pilgrimage

  • @elvansavkl7972
    @elvansavkl7972 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    i like this speech but i dont agree that she is the representative of American women of her age.

    • @bluetang7317
      @bluetang7317 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Agreed. Definitely not the life I’d recommend others to lead.

  • @napoleonchip
    @napoleonchip 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    I don't think so. She might seem great to us - readers and fans but you can see that she's as much of a mess as anybody in her book Eat, Pray, Love. Being too sensitive causes troubles.

  • @Rimedzo08
    @Rimedzo08 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    I am cursed

  • @joanna439
    @joanna439 ปีที่แล้ว

    All I know is that Jesus is Lord and anything after that is pure dribble, including these self help meditation tingies.

  • @GrandMasterFreshMpls
    @GrandMasterFreshMpls 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Incorrect.
    Think of the way Gilbert’s spiritual odyssey plays out. Eat, Pray, Love begins with her throwing over her husband of five years (a man whose devotion and decency she praises to the skies) because she’s bored and frustrated and isn’t ready to have kids. God’s intercession is sought to smooth her divorce proceedings and then to ease her sense of guilt over her own conduct. She sees God as an enabler of adult desire, a source of justifications for whatever the heart already prefers