A genius is a genius, Simonton maintains, because he can put together such a staggering number of insights, ideas, theories, random observations, and unexpected connections that he almost inevitably ends up with something great. ‘Quality’, Simonton writes, is a ‘probabilistic function of quantity.’
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| — | (Malcolm Gladwell explains in a New Yorker article how it’s quantity, not quality that distinguishes the successful creatives). |
