The Importance Of Creativity In Elizabeth Gilbert's TED Talk

I’m emailing you in regard to my thoughts on creativity after watching Elizabeth Gilbert’s TED talk. Originality, to me is the basic building block of humanity, and what keeps us creating throughout time. Originality is defined by me as the art of coming up with a new, unique idea, or the mixing of two ideas that have never been mixed before. I believe originality is what makes humans unique and continue to survive the test of time. We as humans are able to come up with so many new and unheard-of ideas that can innovate the way we live our everyday lives. I also think without originality art forms would die out due to the lack of new material to keeps us entertained. With these things being said originality is the backbone of humanity and what I think will keep us going for generations to come. The force that keeps people going could be defined as inspiration. It can be both created and found as I have seen throughout my years. Inspiration has been around for centuries in everything from sports, war, and even poverty. Examples range from people being saved by animals to a child fighting through a terrible disease. These things in life both positive and negative allow us to feel something that most cannot explain. But, it drives beings to accomplish things that they could never imagine. Such as the Allies winning important battles in WW2

This is a question that has been pondered for centuries. Talent to me is the ability to perform a task at a very high level. Where genius is having an unmatched or insanely high understanding of a subject. Talented individuals such as athletes or politicians may be the best at their respective games, but, I do not think that makes them geniuses. Geniuses understand everything a topic has to offer thus making them a “master” of that topic. To easily illustrate this, I believe the best sports coach would be considered a genius as where the best athlete would be the most