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Jan 29Liked by Bec Evans, Chris Smith

“The best way to have a good idea,” according to the Nobel Prize-winning chemist Linus Pauling, “is to have a lot of ideas”.

This is very true. Just like writing alone is a process that is self-defeating, so is pursuing only one idea when you could build something from many.

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Yes! It goes back to the concept of the quantity myth - that we need to keep going, to keep having ideas, keeping writing and creating - that's the only way we'll ever find out if the ideas are good.

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