Clarke’s Law of Revolutionary Ideas: Every revolutionary idea – in science, politics, art, or whatever – seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases:
— Arthur C. Clarke
(1) “It’s completely impossible – don’t waste my time”;
(2) “It’s possible, but it’s not worth doing”;
(3) “I said it was a good idea all along.”
Peter Turney has a short post (with a link to a post by Terry Tao) on genius, IQ and passion. I agree with him fully. What counts is passion and hard, hard work. Creativity will come from working passionately in the field – novel approaches will “pop” into your mind (actually, it’s just your brain [...]
Paul Graham has a wonderful essay online, reading time approximately 10 minutes: Lies We Tell Kids (The essay was brought to my notice via overcomingbias.com) Some quotes: This sentence is gold: The truth is common property. You can’t distinguish your group by doing things that are rational, and believing things that are true. If you [...]
