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Places of genius challenge us. They are difficult. They do not earn their place in history with ethnic restaurants or street festivals, but by provoking us, making demands of us. Crazy, unrealistic, beautiful demands.

~ Eric Weiner

Eric Weiner Demands Ethnic Restaurants Genius History Location Provoke Street Festivals

All genuinely creative ideas are initially met with rejection, since they necessarily threaten the status quo. An enthusiastic reception for a new idea is a sure sign that it is not original.

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Eric Weiner Creativity Ideas Originality Rejection Status Quo

It's a silly argument, and unnecessary. Creativity doesn't happen in here or out there but in the spaces in between. Creativity is a relationship, one that unfolds at the intersection of person and place.

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Eric Weiner Argument Creativity Genius Intersection Relationship Spaces

Einstein's secretary once said that if Einstein were born among the polar bears, he would still be Einstein. But unless polar bears were well versed in theoretical physics, that is not true. Einstein would not be Einstein. Which is not to take anything away from Einstein, or the polar bears, but simply to point out that he was part of a creative ecology, and trying to isolate him from it is not only silly but futile.

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Eric Weiner Creativity Ecology Einstein Genius Polar Bears

Yes, failure is part of the mix, he says, but it is a means, not an end. If you fail repeatedly, and in the same manner, you're an idiot, not a genius.

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Eric Weiner Failure Genius Idiot

The point is, the best technology or idea doesn't always prevail. Sometimes chance and the law of unintended consequences win out.

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Eric Weiner Chance Ideas Technology Unintended Consequences

Ideas are like bananas. That bananas grow only in tropical regions doesn't make them any less delicious in Scandinavia.

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Eric Weiner Bananas Delicious Ideas Scandinavia Tasty Tropical

First of all, nothing good ever came from a beanbag chair. Nothing. I am speaking from personal experience.

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Eric Weiner Beanbag Beanbag Chair Ideas Nothing Personal Experience

The creator of Bambi was secretly writing pornographic novels on the side. This single fact tells you everything you need to know about turn-of-the-century Vienna, and why it was the perfect place for Sigmund Freud and his far-fetched theories about the human psyche.

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Eric Weiner Bambi Freud Human Psyche Ideas Pornography Theories Vienna

Geniuses are always marginalized to one degree or another. Someone wholly invested in the status quo is unlikely to disrupt it.

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Eric Weiner Disruption Genius Marginalization Revolutionary Status Quo

You can be as good as Rembrandt, but if no one discovers you, you will only be a genius in theory.

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Eric Weiner Discovery Genius Rembrandt

To describe yourself as an entrepreneur or a disrupter is as meaningless as describing yourself as an athlete or a thinker. Really? What sports do you play? What do you think about?

~ Eric Weiner

Eric Weiner Athletes Disruption Entrepreneur Meaningless Thinkers
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