{"id":2432,"date":"2015-12-20T14:02:01","date_gmt":"2015-12-20T14:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/?p=2432"},"modified":"2015-12-20T14:05:40","modified_gmt":"2015-12-20T14:05:40","slug":"big-magic-elizabeth-gilbert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/books\/big-magic-elizabeth-gilbert\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Magic &#8211; Elizabeth Gilbert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My notes from the book <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1OgeDVq\">Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear<\/a>\u00a0by Elizabeth Gilbert,\u00a0the author of a bestseller book <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1Ogeul3\">Eat, pray, love<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rejection, you think you can scare me off? I have another 80 years to wear you down! There are people who haven&#8217;t even been born yet who are going to reject me someday. That&#8217;s how long I plan to stick around.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I believe that enjoying your work with all your heart is the only truly subversive position left to take as a creative person.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It ain&#8217;t what they call you, it&#8217;s what you answer to.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Everybody imitates before they can innovate.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Holding yourself together through all the places of creation, especially the hard times, is where the real work lies.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s your favorite flavor of shit sandwich?<\/p>\n<p><strong>A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You may want your work to be perfect, I just want mine to be finished.<\/p>\n<p>Focus on your devotion to work above all. Let that be the measure of what you&#8217;re worth.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not what you know, its who you know. Talent means nothing and connections mean everything in the world is a mean and unfair place. <strong>If you want to see it like that, go right ahead.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If my Devils are to leave me, I&#8217;m afraid my Angels will take flight as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What could you do even if you knew you might as well fail? What do you love doing so much that the words failure and success become relevant?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Only when we are at our most playful can divinity finally get serious with us.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/HitmanHR\/status\/678576822632755200<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My notes from the book Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear\u00a0by Elizabeth Gilbert,\u00a0the author of a bestseller book Eat, pray, love. Rejection, you think you can scare me&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2432"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2438,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432\/revisions\/2438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}