Creativity and Discovery
Posted by Marc Shiman on March 7, 2006
In my last post, I decried the lack of creativeness in the wiki segment of the Web 2.0. I may be completely wrong that the authors of these various sites are the 20 somethings of years past, but I don’t think I’m wrong.
I equated the fact that these guys seemed to have chained themselves behind their desks was partially to cause for the lack of creativity.
I once read (and my apologies to the author i don’t remember the source) that creativity is not coming up with new thoughts out of the blue. Its the marriage between two experiences, or thoughts, or ideas in a way that its never been done before.
Therefore, the people with the most diverse sets of experiences are those likely to have the most revolutionary ideas.
So… if you graduate from High School, go to MIT or Stanford, see the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, upon graduation go into a new venture firm, sit in front of a computer and code….
What experiences are you going to put together that would be entirely new?
Those years after graduating are for DISCOVERY, not running a race to get cash fast. Every single one of those people that waste their 20′s in front of a computer screen are going to regret it, rich or not.
