Creativity is paradoxical. To create, a person must have knowledge but forget the knowledge, must see unexpected connections in things but not have a mental disorder, must work hard but spend time doing nothing as information incubates, must create many ideas yet most of them are useless, must look at the same thing as everyone else, yet see something different, must desire success but embrace failure, must be persistent but not stubborn, and must listen to experts but know how to disregard them.", December 6, 2011)] . Michael Michalko
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Creativity is paradoxical. To create, a person must have knowledge but forget the knowledge, must see unexpected connections in things but not have a mental disorder, must work hard but spend time doing nothing as information incubates, must create many ideas yet most of them are useless, must look at the same thing as everyone else, yet see something different, must desire success but embrace failure, must be persistent but not stubborn, and must listen to experts but know how to disregard them I think this quote is good because creativity is not easy. If people are creative they will have many thoughts about many things. They have to have learned but they are not the only one who are thinking.

They have to know some facts about what they are creating so they can make something new. But they also have to be different from someone else. So they won’t copy their ideas.

They will be unique so they can make something new that no one else has done before.

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