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Protection from success

Elizabeh Gilbert talks about how to keep being creative in the face of success. In particular, she mentions erecting a “protective pyschological construct to protect you from the results of your work”.

And just so you don’t end up wondering about it for half the talk like I did, Melissa Gilbert played Laura Ingalls on Little House on the Prairie. Elizabeth Gilbert is a writer. (via john hodgman)