The Seven Greatest Barriers To Your Greatest Work (7) Copying Rather Than Innovating

The Executive Summary of The Greatest Barriers:

(1) Worrying about what other people think (2) The distraction of trivia and melodrama (3) The desire for perfection (4) Simply not being bold enough (5) Not having a pen (6) Believing things should be fair (7) Copying rather than innovating.

back story with barriers (1) and (2) here. Back story to (3) here. And (4) here.

And (5) here.

And (6) here.

We know copying is wrong. Crikey, we were told enough at school and college. And yet we continue to do it: another Starbucks clone, another Abercrombie and Fitch clone and certainly another High Street Bank clone. These will not work apart from desperate price selling. The work of others is for inspiration. Take that inspiration and use it to squeeze out your own greatest work. To innovate is to build on the great work of others

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