Writing words doesn't make your ideas original — here's why
There's a faulty belief that if you were the one who wrote something, you own it and created something original. But writing a sentence like 'I woke up today and made coffee' isn't original — that's just an open-source grouping of words. No one owns that. Original thinking doesn't mean you typed the words yourself. It means you've crystallized a genuinely new way of seeing the world in a specific topic over a prolonged period of time. If you're just repeating commodity ideas all day long, thinking they're yours because you were the one who wrote them, you're mistaken — those groupings of words have existed forever.
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There's a real irony when people say they want to write about everything. In doing that, you deprive yourself of ever going deep enough to arrive at something original. All you end up doing is typing and repeating commodity ideas all day lo
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