Creativity is a kaleidoscope full of old ideas

Originality is the result of rummaging through old ideas and reassembling them in new ways.

If ever you find yourself up against a creative block, feeling as if you’ll never have another “new” idea ever again, don’t despair: Creativity isn’t merely the ability to generate new ideas.

In fact, Mark Twain argued that “new” ideas don’t even exist:

“There is no such thing as a new idea… We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of m…