Remixing

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Claim

Perhaps all that creativity really is is remixing. There's nothing new under the sun, the best we can do is to mix together existing ideas in a new way that would be innovative enough to be considered as creative.

Explanation

Remixing is highly connected to Imitation internalizes others' behaviors and mental models at varying depths, because in order to effectively use someone else's idea in combination with other ideas requires us to understand it, or at least be able to replicate the process.

Similarly, it is also related to Knowledge applied across contexts enables learning generalization, because they both share the aspect of using knowledge from one context to another, yet the difference is that transferred learning uses the same logic, while remixing takes just bits and pieces and combines it with other forms of knowledge.

Why it Matters

Good remixing recognizes that ideas are Content is independent from the medium that transmits it, that they are not limited to where they were created and can be used in a different way. It also involves the ability to distill the core idea such that it could be combined with others.

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