Did That Famous Book Also Come from The Artist’s Way!?

I recently listened to an episode of “The Tim Ferriss Show” featuring Elizabeth Gilbert, the famous American author—even I, a Japanese person, know her for Eat, Pray, Love.

Tim Ferriss is the host of the show, and he interviews top performers in many fields to learn about their routines and what supports their success. Elizabeth has appeared on the show a few times, but I listened to the one from 2020. That’s because I saw she talked about The Artist’s Way, and I just had to hear it!

It’s more than two hours long, so I pressed play with full motivation (lol). But once it started, I was totally pulled into the conversation. I ended up listening to the whole thing while doing housework—and suddenly, two hours had flown by!

The part that excited me most was when she said:

“Eat, Pray, Love would not have been born without The Artist’s Way.”

I won’t spoil the details here, but The Artist’s Way gives you weekly tasks to rediscover the things you want to do—things you might think are silly or that you’ve hidden deep inside your heart. And in her case, she realized she wanted to learn Italian. At that time, she was in a really dark place—just divorced and in a heavy depression. But once she started following that desire, her life moved in a new, unexpected direction. Honestly, it sounded like magic. Or in Artist’s Way terms, it was the “creative force of the universe” giving her a little push.

It was fun to hear the story behind a world-famous book, but also… even after becoming famous, she said she still returns to The Artist’s Way between projects—and every time, she finds something new. That part really hit me.

Maybe this is a message to me too?

Like, “Hey you! It’s time to do The Artist’s Way again!”