“The more of these building blocks we have, and the more diverse their shapes and colors, the more interesting our creations will become,” writes Popova. Like LEGO creations, ideas are made up of pre-existing building blocks - insights, knowledge, inspiration, and so on. Her thoughts are echoed in Twain’s writings, which dismisses the existence of the solitary creative genius: “the kernel, the soul - let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances - is plagiarism”.
Maria Popova, editor of Brain Pickings, and MIT Futures of Entertainment Fellow, writes that creativity is a “combinatorial force”, referring to the belief that ideas are products of collaboration.
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