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The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius
I don't know if it's possible to cultivate originality, but there are definitely ways to make the most of however much you have. For example, you're much more likely to have original ideas when you're working on something. Original ideas don't come from trying to have original ideas. They come from trying to build or understand something slightly t... See more
Paul Graham • How to Do Great Work
What are you excessively curious about — curious to a degree that would bore most other people? That's what you're looking for.
Paul Graham • How to Do Great Work
As a new psychological term of art, “creativity” drew a conceptual space that included the greatest accomplishments but also everyday acts of originality. This new concept served much of the function that genius had in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—that is, the thing imagined to be the engine of the progress of mankind.