Collective and Connective

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Collective and Connective

There has been an extraordinarily common theme across the informational platforms I’ve been devouring recently:

Nothing creative or inventive happens in a vacuum or alone.

And I want to be clear about this: all inventors are creators. In an early blog I talked about how essentially everyone is a creator - science and math-minded folks included - and I just want to reiterate this point.

Has the world seen a large number of “geniuses”?

Yes.

Are these people extraordinary?

Yes.

Have their innovations and creations altered the world in which we live?

Yes.

But not a single one of them did it all alone.

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The 5-Hour Rule

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The 5-Hour Rule

About two years ago, there was a pretty sizable buzz about something that the media was dubbing “The 5-Hour Rule.”

In it’s most basic form, it was being described as: “Read 5 hours per week or you’ll never amount to anything!!!” Which caused a little bit of blowback and debate…you know, so news outlets could sell more advertising and drive more traffic.

But what is the actual principle behind the rule, and how is it useful to creatives?

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