Is Originality Overrated?
6 min readJun 12, 2021
What is originality? It’s when you get ideas that have not been thought of before.
Why is it important? Because novelty subverts expectations. It leads to the creation of something fresh, new, and well…original. Nothing like it has existed before; it’s a true contribution to the knowledge pool of humanity.
The problem, however, is that if you have thought of something, it is very likely that…