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Throughout history there have been “exceptional” people who seemed to have the near-mystical ability to ‘walk through the walls’ of culture. They somehow were able to “just do stuff” that nobody el…

Throughout history there have been “exceptional” people who seemed to have the near-mystical ability to ‘walk through the walls’ of culture. They somehow were able to “just do stuff” that nobody else around them seemed able to. (Steve Jobs “no smarter than you” quote). This is often mythologized, pedestalized as esoteric superhuman genius, which in my view is a way for “regular” people to abdicate their own creativity, their own power, which they don’t want to actualize because they don’t want to be responsible for it. A common feature I’ve noticed in a lot of these exceptional people is…

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