Successful Originals choose when to present different realities.
Meridith was needed a transducer to create a prototype for wireless power. She learned to reveal her full “why” until after she has given the specs for the how.
Original ideas sometimes seem “insane” to others so they have to be selectively developed.
Elon Must: create a rocket, then consider Mars.
Elon wanted to hire skeptical optimists.
Originalists have less expertise than their peers. They have expertise outside their fields.
- Einstein was new to physics. Einsteins said relativity was a musical idea.
- Galileo wouldn’t have discovered mountains on mars without art.