1.

Answer the questions:

a. Why do people treat Elizabeth Gilbert as if she is doomed?
b. What is the ancient idea of creativity?
c. How does the ancient approach help creative people to manage the inherent
emotional risks of creativity?
d. How does the process of writing look for Ruth Stone?
e. What is the way to relate to the unknown source of creativity that will not
make creative people lose their sanity Elizabeth Gilbert proposes? The story
of Tom Waits.
f. What do you think of this approach? Do you think that creative people have to
face a lot of pressure? Have you ever experienced similar things?
2. Translate:
a. recalibrate relationship with work
b. to be doomed
c. be able to top something
d. on a scrap heap
e. recall
f. chemical-engineering block
g. earn a reputation
h. be undone by a gift
i. perpetuate something into the next century
j. odious
k. upon reflection
l. придавать форму
m. всего лишь человек, человек сам по себе
n. малость
o. несусветное, возмутительное своенравие
p. деформировать, искривлять эго
q. потерять голову
r. воплощение
s. взойти на ту же высоту
t. тяжелое примирение
u. предоставлять взаймы
v. не пугайся