Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Original ideas are ancient and inherited from ancestors you never met.
- In plain terms
- New thoughts were already thought by long dead people.
- What can you take from it?
- Innovation is often repetition.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Are you truly original?
- Who thought this before?
Another view
Truly new thoughts do exist.
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