“For many thinkers and inventors, I’d bet hits of pleasure from small doses of daily discovery and the prospect of a large dose later, among other things, drives them through years of intellectual labor, uncertainty, and failure in between epiphanies.
If you buy Johnson’s view, the modern world and its increasingly extensive open human networks may be tailor-made to accelerate such endeavors… “Think of it as a house that magically expands with each door you open. You begin in a room with four doors, each leading to a new room that you haven’t visited yet. Those four rooms are the adjacent possible. But once you open one of those doors and stroll into that room, three new doors appear, each leading to a brand-new room that you couldn’t have reached from your original starting point.”… It’s said there’s an ancient curse that goes, “May you live in interesting times.” That’s half right. As anxiety-provoking and uncertain as interesting times are—for our creative brains, they’re also fuel for novelty and invention.”
So, a part of me just slightly hates everyone who wrote this article or things described in this article (like, just look at that guy who is in the video, imagine how annoying it must be to try to tell him that he’s wrong about something) (like, he is exactly every swagger-full-of-science guy I grew up with who really wasn’t going to get that their sense of confidence mostly came from gender and race privilege and not innate merit).
But I like the ideas.
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