Original
This idea of originality. Mindless consumption - thoughtful consumption - mainstream narration - original narration - creation immitation - original creation.
Original
Great artists don’t study art history to figure out what art to create. Great founders don’t analyze the market to figure out what product to build.
As the American sociologist Charles Cooley put it: “I am not who you think I am; I am not who I think I am; I am who I think you think I am.” He dubbed this phenomenon “the looking glass self,” and the evidence for it is diverse, encompassing the everyday experience of seeing ourselves through imagined eyes in social situations (the spotlight effec
... See moreThis is the ultimate trapdoor in the hall of fame; to become a prisoner of one's own persona. The desire for recognition in an increasingly atomized world lures us to be who strangers wish us to be. And with personal development so arduous and lonely, there is ease and comfort in crowdsourcing your identity. But amid such temptations, it's worth re... See more
Gurwinder • The Perils of Audience Capture
"it's ironic that the world always asks for everything new and original and at the same time rejects anything that does not follow common patterns or rules"
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Scientists often bemoan the state of originality in their field. New ideas are getting “harder to find.” Progress in large fields of science and technology is “slowing down.” Scientific knowledge has been in “clear secular decline.” (One wonders about the originality of their bemoaning.) But today’s researchers aren’t getting worse at coming up wit... See more
The Atlantic • Is America Really Running Out of Original Ideas?
This is potentially a dangerous trend. There is a form of consensus building in getting funding. Biased towards block buster innovations and biased towards consensus. I wonder how many wacky or original ideas didn‘t get funding?