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Elizabeth Gilbert

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“I love spending time with you, Tim. You are such a delight. You are just such a delight. I never know where we're going to go And I'm always so happy about where we went”
2024-09-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #770: Elizabeth Gilbert — How to Set Strong Boundaries, Overcome Purpose Anxiety, and Find Your Deep Inner Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“What about our negative bias thinking? Is always trained toward worst possible outcome, but could it just as likely be that you are loved and lovable as despicable and somebody who should be ashamed of themselves? Why not? And why not try it on? Try it on like a pair of boots and take it for a walk. And then do it again tomorrow and see what it does to your mind.”
2024-09-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #770: Elizabeth Gilbert — How to Set Strong Boundaries, Overcome Purpose Anxiety, and Find Your Deep Inner Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Want me to move through this now, assuming that it's friendly. How do you want me to move through this terrible looking thing? And so the question I think that I'm constantly bringing to people, especially when they say I tried it and it just feels really weird and uncomfortable to say kind things to myself, I'm like, yeah, because you've got decades of training of saying garbage things to yourself. And anytime you try to do something new, it's going to be hard and it's going to feel awkward and it's going to feel it definitely doesn't feel normal because normal is your history's greatest garbage can. You are just a pile of worthless, you know, like it's you have never done enough. You'll never be enough. You should be ashamed of yourself. Who do you think you are? I mean, that's the normal dialogue that Annie Lamont calls radio K fucked. It's funny. Most of our heads at all the time.”
2024-09-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #770: Elizabeth Gilbert — How to Set Strong Boundaries, Overcome Purpose Anxiety, and Find Your Deep Inner Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And it's often misattributed to Einstein saying that Einstein said that the most important question you could ask about your life was, is the universe friendly or not? He didn't, in fact, say that, but he did answer the question in his own way because he was examining that as well. And he said, subtle is the Lord, but malicious he is not. I hate to gender God. But anyway, I think it is a really interesting question to live in for your entire life. And it's a really interesting question that I ask myself when I'm in moments of great trial here on earth school, which, as you know, I've already expressed my belief is a very difficult curriculum. And it's like, is this a friendly universe or is this a malicious universe? And if it's malicious, then life is pointless suffering. And if it's friendly, this suffering might have a point. And if it's friendly, what might the point be? And where can I find that?”
2024-09-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #770: Elizabeth Gilbert — How to Set Strong Boundaries, Overcome Purpose Anxiety, and Find Your Deep Inner Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I just want to say, can you imagine that something might love you? There's a quote that's often misattributed to Einstein. It wasn't Einstein. It was this nineteenth century philosopher named Frederick Myers and his friend asked him if there was one thing that you want to know more than anything, if you could ask the Sphinx one question. What would it be? And Myers said it would be this is the universe friendly.”
2024-09-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #770: Elizabeth Gilbert — How to Set Strong Boundaries, Overcome Purpose Anxiety, and Find Your Deep Inner Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, thank you for giving me the chance to make the public complaints about your podcasting style. I've been crawling out of my skin.”
2024-09-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #770: Elizabeth Gilbert — How to Set Strong Boundaries, Overcome Purpose Anxiety, and Find Your Deep Inner Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I mean, I'm on social media, but who cares anymore? That's where my heart is. My heart is in the substack newsletter. And after years of doing this privately in my own space and then starting to gradually teach it in workshops, I finally feel like I'm ready to really bring this to anybody who wants to try it.”
2024-09-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #770: Elizabeth Gilbert — How to Set Strong Boundaries, Overcome Purpose Anxiety, and Find Your Deep Inner Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“To become like it's the kindest corner of the internet, I truly think, and slowly I feel like it's dissolving and breaking down the walls of self-hatred. That's what we're doing over there.”
2024-09-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #770: Elizabeth Gilbert — How to Set Strong Boundaries, Overcome Purpose Anxiety, and Find Your Deep Inner Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Voice that comes to them operates as a we. Like it's some sort of consortium of ancestors and spirits and guides and it's like your team. Like there's this feeling that people are getting where they're like, do I have a team? Like I seem to have some sort of a team that wants to love me. So I've had developmentally disabled people do it and access love. There's this amazing artist named BJ in my town in New Jersey there's this arts collective for developmental disabled people. He did a song about himself called I Love BJ Three Different Ways. That's like one of the greatest songs I've ever heard. That's basically just him talking about how lovable he is. So that's what you can expect. And then if you're a subscriber, you can post your own letters from Love each week. And what's happening in that community is that people are creating collectives and friendships with each other. They're having meetups in cities around the world. And they're starting.”
2024-09-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #770: Elizabeth Gilbert — How to Set Strong Boundaries, Overcome Purpose Anxiety, and Find Your Deep Inner Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Friend's 11 year old son, who was going through a really hard time being bullied at school, he wrote one, and it was beautiful, and love said to him, Not everybody has to like you. You don't have to be everybody's cup of tea. That was literally in this 11-year-old kid's, you don't have to be everybody's cup of tea. We love you. He felt there was a we. It's really interesting. A lot of people, when they write the letters,”
2024-09-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #770: Elizabeth Gilbert — How to Set Strong Boundaries, Overcome Purpose Anxiety, and Find Your Deep Inner Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I want to ask you, why are you so lit? Like, why are you so bright and shiny? And what is that? And what would love have to say to you if it could speak to you? And people who I meet and find inspiring, there was a young woman who I met in Denmark this year. I was on tour. And so she had read my book Big Magic. And because of that book, she was Japanese and she was an engineer and she worked on a construction site in Japan, but she'd always wanted to be an artist. She started making art again after she read Big Magic and then she took the leap and she quit her construction job in Japan and saved her money and moved to Denmark and is going to graphic design school. And her art is gorgeous. And I was like, hey, will you do a letter from Love? Because obviously there's something moving through you that's really special and I would love to hear what love has to say to you through you. And so it's like every week you'll get a special guest. I've had children do it.”
2024-09-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #770: Elizabeth Gilbert — How to Set Strong Boundaries, Overcome Purpose Anxiety, and Find Your Deep Inner Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, every week I will talk to you, and I will talk about this process of learning how to write and speak to yourself toward yourself from a place of friendliness and love in order to combat this just awful virus of self-hatred that we all seem to be so infected with that comes also with perfectionism and lack and just bringing a different voice into the cacophony of voices in your head. And I'll read one of the letters that I've written to myself from Love, and then there'll be a special guest and the special guests are really the best part because it's everybody from like act like Tony Collette did one and Clean and Doyle did one and musicians and poets and artists and writers but then also like random people who I meet and I meet them in My travels, and I'm like, you are radiating so much light.”
2024-09-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #770: Elizabeth Gilbert — How to Set Strong Boundaries, Overcome Purpose Anxiety, and Find Your Deep Inner Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I know it's incredible. I mean, it's also like a self selecting thing because this is a group of really lovely people who are doing this beautiful project together. So that's how I decided to go over there.”
2024-09-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #770: Elizabeth Gilbert — How to Set Strong Boundaries, Overcome Purpose Anxiety, and Find Your Deep Inner Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Can comment so there's So I send out a newsletter once a week. It's essentially like a 90s technology. It's basically a blog. So it's like a high end blog. So people subscribe and then a newsletter goes out to them and there's video attachments and things and then you can comment and people can comment on each other's comments. So it's very similar. It looks very similar to what social media looks like. But because it's a subscription, It keeps the haters out because it's self selecting. And I've been on this thing for a year and have had not one problem with anything.”
2024-09-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #770: Elizabeth Gilbert — How to Set Strong Boundaries, Overcome Purpose Anxiety, and Find Your Deep Inner Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh my god. You know, before everyone started propping up Putin. And it's like, wait, what pool party is this? Like, what just happened to democracy? We've just discovered that this thing is very, very, very dangerous and venomous. And so I've been looking for another place to go to be able to have dialogue with people and substack.”
2024-09-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #770: Elizabeth Gilbert — How to Set Strong Boundaries, Overcome Purpose Anxiety, and Find Your Deep Inner Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Two things. One is I'm trying to get off of the nicotine crackpipe booze bottle that is social media. And it's not easy to get off it because I feel like social media is like a party drug that started off as really fun. And now I heard somebody say so beautifully about social media. I wish I could remember who said it. Everyone's now everyone's abusing it and no one's getting high anymore. Like the fun like everyone's addicted to it and the high is gone. And I'm looking for ways. I love connection. I loved that feeling at the beginning of social media that we can all connect with one another.”
2024-09-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #770: Elizabeth Gilbert — How to Set Strong Boundaries, Overcome Purpose Anxiety, and Find Your Deep Inner Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, it's a strange thing to say, but it was hard. She was really willful Was a difficult death, but then the moment of the death Instant after the death. There's such an incredible thing. Like something happens. It isn't what it was, like something leaves, and then the look that was on her face after she died of absolute delight, absolute delight. We were all aghast at it. Like, what did, why is she so happy? She looks so happy, so peaceful. It feels like going home to me. This place feels a lot weirder to me than death. Like this planet's bananas. You know, like having a body, I mean, that's why I used to love to do psychedelics so much before I stopped doing all that stuff. It's like.”
2024-09-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #770: Elizabeth Gilbert — How to Set Strong Boundaries, Overcome Purpose Anxiety, and Find Your Deep Inner Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm afraid of pain, don't get me wrong. I'm not interested at all in suffering. Maybe that's why I'm not afraid of death. I'm like, well, that seems better than suffering. So what's so bad about that? So I don't know. I come from like really pragmatic people. My mom's a nurse. My dad's a farmer. Like I saw a lot of death growing up. My mom worked with the dying a lot. By the time it came it seemed like it was such a relief for everybody. Like there was grief, but also people were shredded by end of life stuff. And she sat in a lot of dying people's houses for, you know, weeks and months on end. And, you know, dying and struggling. And then there was this. Okay, now that person has safely been delivered into death. That's the feeling I felt when Rhea died. Like those of us who were taking care of her and she had a pretty raucous death, but those of us who were taking care of her was like, we safely got her.”
2024-09-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #770: Elizabeth Gilbert — How to Set Strong Boundaries, Overcome Purpose Anxiety, and Find Your Deep Inner Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's not a fear that lives in me, and I know it's a fear that lives in a lot of people much, much, much more afraid of people not liking me than I am of dying. And that's what I have to suffer with more is like to try to figure out how to disappoint people and say no to people and set boundaries with people that they can survive it and I can survive it. This is like my work in this lifetime. But death to me, it doesn't keep me up at night. It's not, I'm not in an argument against it. I went with my partner Rhea all the way to her death.”
2024-09-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #770: Elizabeth Gilbert — How to Set Strong Boundaries, Overcome Purpose Anxiety, and Find Your Deep Inner Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The cello thing seems to be working for you. But if you're Because you feel like there was something you were supposed to be doing, maybe they just need you to hang out until you get notified of something that could be as small as holding the ladder, I just want to say, and that maybe the future of the universe depended on that ladder being held that day. We don't know. Your question about death, I don't want to get cocky about, I don't care about death”
2024-09-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #770: Elizabeth Gilbert — How to Set Strong Boundaries, Overcome Purpose Anxiety, and Find Your Deep Inner Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Wow, that's such a did not think that was going to be the second half of the question. And I also want to say, Here's the thing about purpose if you actually are one of those people who from forever has known exactly what you're supposed to be doing and you did become the master of it and you have monetized it and you are leaving a legacy and like you have what I like to call not a problem right like”
2024-09-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #770: Elizabeth Gilbert — How to Set Strong Boundaries, Overcome Purpose Anxiety, and Find Your Deep Inner Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Who's addicted to their fun? We all are front that I don't stare at my phone 90 million hours a day I do. But that's why I take Thursdays off from it is because I don't want to miss what's actually happening. And I want to be present to the notification when it comes.”
2024-09-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #770: Elizabeth Gilbert — How to Set Strong Boundaries, Overcome Purpose Anxiety, and Find Your Deep Inner Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But I think presence is the greatest gift that you can give to yourself and to the world. And I think that line that I so often hear in meditation and on the page when I do two-way prayer of, you'll be notified is the very opposite of a purpose-driven life. Because a purpose-driven life is some sense that I'm going to forge. I'm going to hack through this forest and make this trail. It's going to be named after me. And this is what I'll be remembered for. And it's so self-centered. And you'll be notified as a much humbler position to take, but it requires a great deal of listening, and it requires also lately I've been doing these one day a week without my phone because I want more moments like that where I notice somebody on the ladder because I'm not on my phone and I'm super addicted to my phone. It's like, no, I'm not throwing shade against anyone.”
2024-09-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #770: Elizabeth Gilbert — How to Set Strong Boundaries, Overcome Purpose Anxiety, and Find Your Deep Inner Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And nobody even knows what they're looking at. So, yes, you could go a little too far into that, and you could just smoke weed all day and be like, are we just a paperweight in God's desk? You know, or like ask questions like that.”
2024-09-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #770: Elizabeth Gilbert — How to Set Strong Boundaries, Overcome Purpose Anxiety, and Find Your Deep Inner Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Around a farm, have her grow up with a father who does jacket. How are we going to get her to LA? Make her a writer, give her a career, have her have a read. Every single other thing I was doing in my life was just killing time until the moment when I was needed. And maybe I'm not needed again after that. And I would challenge anybody to prove to me that that isn't true because nobody can because nobody knows what's going on.”
2024-09-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #770: Elizabeth Gilbert — How to Set Strong Boundaries, Overcome Purpose Anxiety, and Find Your Deep Inner Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Particular moment that they were like, however this thing works, it's essential that that guy not fall off his ladder. So we're going to need in like sector seven block D on this date. We're going to need somebody to really be alert and notice that and just send them in. Have the proper farm train.”
2024-09-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #770: Elizabeth Gilbert — How to Set Strong Boundaries, Overcome Purpose Anxiety, and Find Your Deep Inner Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And my mom was constantly telling me, Gold, your father's letter. Because my dad was always doing jackass things on the ladder in the farm. So just I had nothing else to do and nowhere else to be. And I was the perfect person for the job to cross the street and just hold the guy's ladder. And I probably held his ladder for 45 minutes that day. And he never saw me because he was doing his thing. But I felt better because I was like, I'm just going to make sure this guy doesn't fall today. And I'm here. And it's a nice afternoon. And it was lovely. And then when he started to come down and I felt like he was at a safe level, I just peeled off and he never saw me and I never saw his face and we never had any interaction. But we had this beautiful little exchange. And as I was walking away, because I was thinking about purpose anxiety. And I was thinking, what if that was the entire purpose of my life?”
2024-09-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #770: Elizabeth Gilbert — How to Set Strong Boundaries, Overcome Purpose Anxiety, and Find Your Deep Inner Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I want to tell you a counter story about a purpose-driven life. I like your question a lot, and I think this will lead into it nicely. We'll see. We'll see if this works. So, I was in Los Angeles several years ago for a speaking event, and I had a free afternoon, and I was wandering around Venice Beach, and I looked across the street and I saw that there was a guy standing on the top of a ladder painting the awning of his storefront. And I instantly was able to see that the ladder was not steady. And I have a very severe ladder sensitivity because I grew up on a farm.”
2024-09-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #770: Elizabeth Gilbert — How to Set Strong Boundaries, Overcome Purpose Anxiety, and Find Your Deep Inner Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But it's like that's it, you know, you're like, how much did I make? How much did I leave? How much did I impact? Meanwhile, like the world is happening and you're in it and you're missing it.”
2024-09-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #770: Elizabeth Gilbert — How to Set Strong Boundaries, Overcome Purpose Anxiety, and Find Your Deep Inner Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Little more, and what would be the opposite of a purpose driven life would be, I think, a life of presence. It's also focused entirely in the future constantly. And I don't think there's any way that you can live a relaxed or really truly rich or meaningful life if you're constantly thinking about your fucking legacy.”
2024-09-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #770: Elizabeth Gilbert — How to Set Strong Boundaries, Overcome Purpose Anxiety, and Find Your Deep Inner Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I hardly know anyone who doesn't suffer from purpose anxiety. And I know people who are living lives that look from the outside like they have achieved tremendous purpose. And it's a scarcity anxiety. So they're up at night wondering if they've done enough. Have they done the right thing? Have they left enough of a legacy? Is this where their energy should have gone? It's a theology that is going to leave you unsatisfied because there's no way to know that you have achieved it. You and I both know people who are so admired and they're so stressed and they're so unsure about themselves and they feel like they've done it all wrong and they don't know whether there's a never enoughness to it that feels a lot like capitalism. It's just how much something of JP Morgan testifying before Congress and them saying like how much money is enough sir and him saying a little more you know it's the same with purpose it's like when will you know that you've made a big enough impact a”
2024-09-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #770: Elizabeth Gilbert — How to Set Strong Boundaries, Overcome Purpose Anxiety, and Find Your Deep Inner Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Think it's very male. I think it's very capitalistic. It's very self-centered. It's very Yeah, you only must do this thing that only you can do, and the world must be altered. And like, they must know you are here. You must leave your mark on the world. And I think the world at this point is like, I wish maybe that you stopped leaving marks on me. Like maybe we could use a little less of that.”
2024-09-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #770: Elizabeth Gilbert — How to Set Strong Boundaries, Overcome Purpose Anxiety, and Find Your Deep Inner Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Be unlikely because there's a lot of us, and you should find out what that is very young. And then you should become the master of that thing. And you should devote the 10,000 hours, you know, way before you're out of adolescence. You should already be pouring yourself into this purpose that you are here to serve and you should become the very best at that thing. And then it's not enough to become the best of that thing. You have to monetize it. It's not enough to monetize it. You also have to create opportunities for others and make sure that they're also being served by this purpose. And if all of this sounds exhausting, you were not off the hook even when you die because you must leave a legacy. And you must change the world. So no pressure. But that's it. That's it. You must change the world. And it's like.”
2024-09-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #770: Elizabeth Gilbert — How to Set Strong Boundaries, Overcome Purpose Anxiety, and Find Your Deep Inner Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I mean, the story that most of us were taught was Some variation of each of you is born with one unique offering, a special spark that is only yours, and only you can deliver on that thing. It is your job. It is your job to find out what that thing is that only you can do. Meanwhile, there's almost 8 billion people on the planet. So already here's some pressure because it's got to be something that no one else can do, which is”
2024-09-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #770: Elizabeth Gilbert — How to Set Strong Boundaries, Overcome Purpose Anxiety, and Find Your Deep Inner Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“This situation? Who do you want me to be in this moment? Answers very clear. What do you want me to do next? That's a really good one. That's a big one. And hey, what's the next intuitive action? What's the next right action? What would you like me to do right now? Which is often like get a glass of water. Turn the phone off. But why? And I think that goes back to you don't even know what you're looking at. I think that goes back to where Five Einstein's away from even having the right questions to get the right answers. But why is it turns into a black hole that I just fall into? And it's this great echoing silence”
2024-09-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #770: Elizabeth Gilbert — How to Set Strong Boundaries, Overcome Purpose Anxiety, and Find Your Deep Inner Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I will not be given an answer that's much more satisfying than what an adult would tell a toddler like at some point just because I said so because is. I wrote a poem once called The Shortest Conversation I Ever Had With God and it's God Colon. Why? Oh sorry me, but why, which is again the ego and God because is. But there are other questions that I can ask and I do get answers. So if I ask questions that begin with how instead of why How do you want me to move through this I will be given direct instructions who do you want me to serve”
2024-09-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #770: Elizabeth Gilbert — How to Set Strong Boundaries, Overcome Purpose Anxiety, and Find Your Deep Inner Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Anytime I howl into the void, any question that begins with why, I do not get an answer. I will not be answered. I can do two-way prayer from now till God leaves Chicago, from now until time gets better. And I guess why, why, why, why?”
2024-09-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #770: Elizabeth Gilbert — How to Set Strong Boundaries, Overcome Purpose Anxiety, and Find Your Deep Inner Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I started watching movies in Italian, and I started, I had no plan for anything I was going to do with it. And then I was like, well, wait, I want to use this Italian. Like, I want to go to Italy and speak this language. But I also been studying meditation a lot lately, and I want to go to India. I also want to go back. And then out of that was Porn April. It took me by surprise as much as anything. And maybe you've had that experience in your morning pages where it's like, I didn't even know that. Like I can hide things so far from myself that I can't even find them.”
2024-09-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #770: Elizabeth Gilbert — How to Set Strong Boundaries, Overcome Purpose Anxiety, and Find Your Deep Inner Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's not like Spanish, like, where it's spoken across the globe. Or why? Why? Why, why, why, why, why, why, why? And why is not a spiritual question and never brings a spiritual answer? So it's kind of useless, but I just went with it and I was like, okay. And one of my artist dates was to. Sign up for Italian classes without knowing why, just because it kept showing up on the page. So I did six months of Italian classes like night school for divorce ladies at the Y. And I loved it so much.”
2024-09-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #770: Elizabeth Gilbert — How to Set Strong Boundaries, Overcome Purpose Anxiety, and Find Your Deep Inner Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“A massive priority of my life, but apparently my soul knew that it was instruction because it was like Italian. I kept seeing Italian and I was like, why Italian? Not useful unless you are in Italy”
2024-09-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #770: Elizabeth Gilbert — How to Set Strong Boundaries, Overcome Purpose Anxiety, and Find Your Deep Inner Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I was like, apparently. I really want to fucking learn to speak Italian. And I would not have said that that was like.”
2024-09-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #770: Elizabeth Gilbert — How to Set Strong Boundaries, Overcome Purpose Anxiety, and Find Your Deep Inner Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“She keeps asking you the same question like 90 different ways. So there are all these questions each week that you have to answer. And then there's the morning pages. So there are twists and turns on like, if you could have three talents, what would they be? If there were three places in the world that you could visit, what would they be? If there was something you wish you had studied, what would it be? She's coming at it like from 20 different directions. And then there's this point that comes late in the process where she instructs you to go back and read everything that you've written and start looking at what keeps showing up. Because I think one of the mysterious and magical things and weird things about our brain is like the secrets we can keep from ourselves where it's like I didn't even know that about me. So when I went back and read, Italian was on every page.”
2024-09-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #770: Elizabeth Gilbert — How to Set Strong Boundaries, Overcome Purpose Anxiety, and Find Your Deep Inner Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“For instance, The artist day is hard. It's hard. I still have trouble figuring that it went out sometimes. So here I can tell you exactly when. I can tell you exactly it. So one of the things that she does so cleverly in that course is that”
2024-09-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #770: Elizabeth Gilbert — How to Set Strong Boundaries, Overcome Purpose Anxiety, and Find Your Deep Inner Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Teach and model that to other women is this is the opposite of what women have been taught. Wait, what if I'm not on duty all the time? What if I'm only on duty sometimes? And I have to follow a deep inner voice that tells me when that is and what that is and everything else y'all can take care of yourselves. And that's something that we as women are not taught that we can ever say. Like, I'll do it. I'll do it.”
2024-09-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #770: Elizabeth Gilbert — How to Set Strong Boundaries, Overcome Purpose Anxiety, and Find Your Deep Inner Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's going on is because I very much need you in this. And so I want you to bring your full attention to this. And if that changes, you'll be notified. You'll be notified of something that happens a lot on the pages of two-way prayer for me. I mean, I've gone through periods of time where I didn't have any creative ideas at all. Early pandemic, I was like, wow, this would be a great time to write, but I actually don't have anything that's ready to go. And I remember writing into April and saying, should I be working on something right now? instantly came the answer when we've got something for you to do you'll be notified and i was like well what do i do until then and they're like hang out like hang out be present to the world it's amazing walk around look at stuff you don't have to be on duty at every moment but when you have to be on duty you really have to be on duty and i think part of the aspiration that i have to both be a relaxed woman”
2024-09-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #770: Elizabeth Gilbert — How to Set Strong Boundaries, Overcome Purpose Anxiety, and Find Your Deep Inner Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Largely because of the things that I am let off the hook for, has made me think it goes back to the original part of the conversation where I said, I'm loved beyond measure by a God who has given me control over practically nothing. The wisdom to know the difference is one that I cannot find, but I get instructions of like, this isn't yours. We don't need you in this story. We don't need you involved in this situation. We don't need you speaking up about this thing. We don't need you doing this. We need you doing this.”
2024-09-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #770: Elizabeth Gilbert — How to Set Strong Boundaries, Overcome Purpose Anxiety, and Find Your Deep Inner Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“This is not going to be the 48. This isn't one of them. And sucks to suck. Get back to work. I'll see you on the page, you know. I know you're tired. I know you want to take a day off. You're not having a day off, you know? And I think the trust that has built up between me and that higher power over the decades.”
2024-09-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #770: Elizabeth Gilbert — How to Set Strong Boundaries, Overcome Purpose Anxiety, and Find Your Deep Inner Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Be part of this family gathering. You don't have to rescue this person. You don't have to, like, I get a lot of you don't have to. You don't have to, you have to do that throughout this entire process of this book because I was struggling Every morning when I wrote it out on the page, that voice would say, I can see how hard this is for you. And I can see what this is cost, the toll that this is taking on you to tell this story. And I can see that you want to stop too bad. I've given you.”
2024-09-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #770: Elizabeth Gilbert — How to Set Strong Boundaries, Overcome Purpose Anxiety, and Find Your Deep Inner Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Long before I became a meditator, I had so much trouble meditating for years, but I would start to write and hours would drop away and I would not be aware of time. So writing gave me the thing that meditation promised, but I could never have happened in meditation until very recently, where like time stops or changes. And I'm here, but not here. So that's just so pleasurable. But the other thing is sometimes I feel that it's a mandate. I can't talk about the book that I've just finished. It's coming out next year, but I can say that it's the hardest thing I've ever written emotionally. And when I was doing my two-way prayers every day in the morning during this, especially the really hard part of writing it, and I have a really loving higher power, like I have a higher power who's constantly letting me off the hook for lots of stuff that I do not have to do. You know, it's like, you do not have to be involved in this. Like, you don't have to be part of that chaos thing that's going on. Like, you don't have to.”
2024-09-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #770: Elizabeth Gilbert — How to Set Strong Boundaries, Overcome Purpose Anxiety, and Find Your Deep Inner Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think part of it is that I enjoy it. I enjoy the work and I never identified as a tormented artist. I've identified as a tormented person, but I've never identified as a tormented artist. Art has been, creativity has been the place where torment drops away. So the question, of course, is why. And I think, once again, I would probably have to say I don't know. But I think I'm getting a big smile on my face as I'm thinking about this, but I'm thinking like, why shouldn't we do the thing that is so pleasurable? Why shouldn't that be a clue as to the thing that you're supposed to be doing, that you're on the right track because”
2024-09-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #770: Elizabeth Gilbert — How to Set Strong Boundaries, Overcome Purpose Anxiety, and Find Your Deep Inner Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT