I loved Elizabeth Gilbert’s talk on creativity at TED2009 for being simultaneously whimsical, honest and humble.

In case you’re not an Amazon junkie like me and bombarded with their marketing material on a more or less daily basis, she’s the author of “Eat Pray Love” which has, in her own words, been a huge, freakish success. “Elizabeth weaves an insightful story of artists, success and pressure. She asks if she’s doomed. What if she never replicates the success of her past book? Is it rational or logical to be afraid of the work that we were put on this earth to do?

Elizabeth poses an interesting question — should we be romanticizing tortured geniuses, or helping them? (Erik Hersman blogging live from TED2009).