"You can measure your worth by your dedication to your path, not by your successes or failures."
-- Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
I can't argue that Elizabeth Gilbert knows a thing or two about passion projects, after all she has written quite a few books, including her well-known memoir "Eat, pray, love". But what I will argue with is where ideas come from.
She describes ideas as disembodied energy forms that are floating around in the search for a human partner that would bring them to life. As romantic as it is, I think it's about time we, humans, took accountability for our own ideas instead of claiming that some mythical creatures hit us with them.
The way I see it - an idea is a result of creative thinking. Our senses supply us with enourmous amount of information all the time and our brains are trying to catch up and make sense of it all. We try and match new information with the patterns we already know and get quite stressed when we are met with something entirely new.
