Elizabeth Gilbert and Julia Cameron On Creative Motivation, Personal Success and the Artist’s Way

Eat, Pray, Love is one of the most influential books of the 2000s - and Elizabeth Gilbert may not have written it without Julia Cameron. Julia's book The Artist’s Way has not only inspired Elizabeth - it has also helped the likes of Alicia Keys and Pete Townshend, Reese Witherspoon and Russell Brand. In this exclusive How To Academy conversation, Julia Cameron and Elizabeth Gilbert meet to discuss everything from inspiration and creativity, spirituality and motivation tips, writer's intuition and, of course, The Artist’s Way.


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0:00 Intro
0:03:15 How The Artist's Way Came To Be
0:4:26 Eat Pray Love & The Artist’s Way
0:6:42 Morning Pages, Artist’s Dates and ‘The Bridge’
0:11:37 God in The Artist’s Way
0:15:53 The Artist’s Inner Child
0:18:24 Liz Gilbert’s Artist’s Dates
0:21:26 Lockdown Creativity
0:31:30 Perfectionism is Fear
0:38:48 The Mythology of the Tortured Artist
0:41:06 The Artist’s Way: A Temper Tantrum
0:43:55 The Ancient Impulse of Art
0:46:42 Making Money By Writing
0:51:30 “I’m Not Good Enough, What’s The Point?”
0:55:25 The Courage to Be Weird and New