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Creativity fundamentally comes from memorization?

July 2024

Eastern cultures, on the other hand, have maintained focus on drilling these primitives to unlock autonomy, as shown by popular tutoring services like Kumon -- which involve daily, timed tests to develop speed. I’ll never forget the shock I received when working through a proof in college on electromagnetic waves and suddenly ending up with 3e8 — a value I’d memorized blindly as the speed of light. As the internet democratizes information and low-hanging fruit is harder to come by, we're seeing that expertise in multiple fields like this is needed to create something novel and valuable (as seen in startups, music).

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