{"id":50710,"date":"2014-04-28T10:36:33","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T08:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=50710"},"modified":"2014-04-28T10:36:33","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T08:36:33","slug":"success-failure-and-the-drive-to-keep-creating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=50710","title":{"rendered":"Success, failure and the drive to keep creating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/elizabeth_gilbert_success_failure_and_the_drive_to_keep_creating.html\" width=\"520\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Gilbert was once an &#8220;unpublished diner waitress,&#8221; devastated by rejection letters. And yet, in the wake of the success of &#8216;Eat, Pray, Love,&#8217; she found herself identifying strongly with her former self. 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