{"id":22983,"date":"2012-09-17T23:11:48","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T23:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/celebrated-creators-artists-writers\/"},"modified":"2012-09-17T23:11:48","modified_gmt":"2012-09-17T23:11:48","slug":"celebrated-creators-artists-writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/celebrated-creators-artists-writers\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Celebrated creators \u2013 artists, writers, scientists, inventors \u2013 have always known the power of the synthesizing mind and have advocated for embracing the building blocks of combinatorial creativity. \u201cStuff your head with more different things from various fields,\u201d Ray Bradbury encouraged students in a 2001 address. \u201cYou should stay alert for the moment when a number of things are just ready to collide with one another,\u201d Brian Eno advised. \u201cCreativity is just connecting things,\u201d Steve Jobs proclaimed. \u201cScience,\u201d Darwin recognized, \u201cconsists in grouping facts so that general laws or conclusions may be drawn from them.\u201d \u201cSubstantially all ideas are second-hand,\u201d Mark Twain observed, \u201cconsciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources, and daily use by the garnerer with a pride and satisfaction born of the superstition that he originated them.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Some thoughts on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.smithsonianmag.com\/ideas\/2012\/06\/combinatorial-creativity-and-the-myth-of-originality\/\">combinatorial creativity and the myth of originality<\/a>\u00a0from yours truly for\u00a0The Smithsonian\u2019s<em> Innovations.<\/em> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/exp.lore.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">explore-blog<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrated creators \u2013 artists, writers, scientists, inventors \u2013 have always known the power of the synthesizing mind and have advocated for embracing the building blocks of combinatorial creativity. \u201cStuff your head with more different things from various fields,\u201d Ray Bradbury encouraged students in a 2001 address. \u201cYou should stay alert for the moment when a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-5YH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}