That's an interesting take because I'd say the argument was specifically breaking a former binary. My intent wasn't to say intelligence doesn't matter but to argue against the idea that individual genius is the main method of good ideas. (and the context is around the book "Where Good Ideas Come From")
That's an interesting take because I'd say the argument was specifically breaking a former binary. My intent wasn't to say intelligence doesn't matter but to argue against the idea that individual genius is the main method of good ideas. (and the context is around the book "Where Good Ideas Come From")
Ironically, you created the binary you arguing against by taking the group genius example of Edison and Mozart and then arguing that they did, in fact, have individual intelligence.
I did not argue that they didn’t.
As I stated in the essay regarding Edison: “His wizardry wasn’t in individual innovation. It was weaving together the ideas of exceptionally collaborative researchers.”
Likewise, I point out that Mozart was a fantastic composer yet he attributed his success to the study of others from which he could build his own.
The good ideas didn't come soley from the individual but from the network effects of who they surrounded themselves by and how they built other's ideas together.
That's an interesting take because I'd say the argument was specifically breaking a former binary. My intent wasn't to say intelligence doesn't matter but to argue against the idea that individual genius is the main method of good ideas. (and the context is around the book "Where Good Ideas Come From")
Ironically, you created the binary you arguing against by taking the group genius example of Edison and Mozart and then arguing that they did, in fact, have individual intelligence.
I did not argue that they didn’t.
As I stated in the essay regarding Edison: “His wizardry wasn’t in individual innovation. It was weaving together the ideas of exceptionally collaborative researchers.”
Likewise, I point out that Mozart was a fantastic composer yet he attributed his success to the study of others from which he could build his own.
The good ideas didn't come soley from the individual but from the network effects of who they surrounded themselves by and how they built other's ideas together.