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		suff on May 25, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You Don't Need to Be Brilliant to Do Brilliant Wor... Really good read. So true that most 'innovation' is really a lot of tedious work most people don't bother doing. That is in sharp contrast to the 'Eurika!' moment that most people think of. There may never be a eurika moment, just a bunch of small insights put together into a body of work.

bumby on May 25, 2019 [–]

I think it was Issac Asimov's quote that the most exciting phrase in science is not "Eureka!" but "Hmmm... that's funny..."

Meaning, many innovations are the result of unexpected outcomes rather than a brilliant mind setting out to prove a specific result

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