Art of Being Original

"Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible."

Richard Feynmann

Being original has never been so easy.

It is not because we invented better ways of being original.

It is simply because, after three decades of its emergence, social media molded a new norm of behavior which can be summarized as parroting.

I do not want to waste time analyzing parroting and how it works.

Here is a quick guide to being original:

1. Ask questions

2. Add dimensions. Question the order of importance

3. Change the perspective

4. Go out of the current agenda

5. Think of counter-arguments and competing ideas

6. Ask so what?

7. Reveal tacit assumptions

8. …

© Saip Eren Yilmaz, 2023