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The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.

August 28, 2022 by Arthur Koestler

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The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.

— Arthur Koestler

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When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.

The sudden hunch, the creative leap of mind that “sees” in a flash how to solve a problem in a simple way, is something quite different from general intelligence.

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