Want to Improve Your Creativity?

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Everybody wants to think creatively, but nobody really wants to build their knowledge base. See, the thing is creativity it doesn’t come from nothing.

Almost never can you discover a clever proof if you don’t know any theorems. You know that saying, a writer is the sum of their experiences.

Well, that applies in math too. And math is really, really hierarchical so you can’t really even collect experiences at the top if you’re just sitting there at the bottom.

You need to climb your way up into the level of skill and domain expertise that all those symbols and theorems and clever tricks at the top actually mean something to you beyond just generating a pretty picture on a YouTube video.

Ultimately, creativity comes from taking things that you actually know and combining them in new ways. It’s a, it’s a combinatorial explosion.

So if you wanna be more creative and really expand the possibility space of all the ideas, perspectives, all the insights that your mind is capable of coming up with, then build a bigger knowledge base.

Give your brain more to work with.

Further reading: The #1 Killer of Creativity (and the #1 Unlock) .

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