Six degrees of separation is the idea that all people are six, or fewer, social connections away from each other. Which means every single person on this Earth is connected to every other person. It’s just a matter of finding that chain of connection.
What’s true in the context of human connections is also true for creativity and ideas.
A familiar saying recommends, “There’s nothing new under the Sun.”
Every novel body of knowledge is the result of some permutation and combination of prior discoveries.
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