The Ideas Paradox

The more ideas you've had in the past, the more pressure that puts on future ones. We got used to living in an ever bigger universe but now we have a much better idea of how it all began. But there's just this burden of knowledge that makes having a big idea much more difficult. There is also a psychological aspect to this - part of what a big idea is is you just know it. It kind of hits you round the face, and you know it well. That makes it more difficult to constantly have big ideas.

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