The Myth of the Myth of the Lone Genius - by Roger’s Bacon
The Myth of the Lone Genius is a bullshit cliche and we would do well to stop parroting it to young people like it is some deep insight into the nature of innovation.
Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man. (John Steinbeck) The Great Man theory of history may not be truly believable and Great Men not real but invented, but it may be true we need to believe the Great Man…
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