“I saw it somewhere” isn’t a source. It’s a warning sign.
CREATIVITY
WHAT THIS MEANS
Remembering that you encountered something is not the same as knowing where it came from, and both feel equally solid from inside your own head. Claims you cannot trace are usually claims you never checked. The vagueness itself is the useful signal. When you cannot say where, that is the moment to find out before you repeat it.
Notice the next time you are about to say something with no origin attached to it. Spend two minutes tracing it before it leaves your mouth. Either you find the source and know more than you did, or you do not, and you have just avoided passing something on.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
Where did you actually hear the thing you keep repeating?
MORE IN LEARNING & CURIOSITY
- Ask your grandma how she makes it. That recipe won’t be online, and one day you’ll want it.
- Coaches don’t fight over the most gifted kid. They fight over the one who actually listens.
- The most useful subject nobody teaches is how you personally learn best. Figure that out and everything gets easier.
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