Originals are made - NOT BORN. They don’t have better ideas than their peers. They just keep trying and trying. Einstein had 248 other papers that nobody knows about. Edison had 1000 patents BUT only 6 that really matter. Originals try a lot of ideas to get to a few good ones. Quantity and Quality are correlated. Originals persist instead of quitting. That’s the biggest difference. Dean Simonton’s research: Originals are not better. They just produce more work. Odds of producing an influential or successful idea are positively correlated to the total number of ideas generated. Periods when we generate the most ideas are when we also create the best ideas.
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