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Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
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How do Gilbert’s ideas about inspiration compare with the concept of the law of attraction and books like The Secret by Rhonda Byrne (2006)? How do they differ?
Big Magic outlines six elements of creativity. How are these elements similar or different from the steps of creativity in Mihály Csíkszentmihályi’s Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention?
Find an example of a trickster in folklore, mythology, or religion and write an essay on how the trickster’s qualities align with or differ from Gilbert’s idea of the trickster. How might this trickster connect with Gilbert’s qualities of creativity? How does it diverge?
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