How I came up with my best ideas

It’s very rare for anyone to come up with a truly new idea. We all borrow from those who came before us.

Few ideas are truly original. We borrow all the time from those who came before us. The trick is to make an idea your own and run away with it.

The aphorism “Good artists copy; great artists steal,” is usually attributed to Picasso. Over the years, many people have misconstrued this to mean that the famous painter blatantly duplicated other hard-working artists’ ideas.