"Creativity researcher [[Dean Keith Simonton]] has shown that **the more work eminent creators produced, the more duds they churned out, and the higher their chances of a supernova success**. [[Thomas Edison]] held more than a thousand patents, most completely unimportant, and was rejected for many more. His failures were legion, but his successes—the mass-market light bulb, the phonograph, a precursor to the film projector—were earthshaking." -- [[consistency]] and [[outliers]] and [[teaching anecdotes]] --- **Tags** — [[quotes]], [[innovation]], [[consistency]], [[creativity]], [[teaching-anecdotes]] , [[outliers]] **Source** — [[202308101402 — B — Range]]