> Dry, Harry. Consumers. <https://www.consumersbook.net/>. Accessed 10 Aug. 2023. # Consumers - Ideas are not original; they come from stuff you have ingested - **==To increase the quality of your work, you must increase the quality of your input==** - Knowledge comes from information and experiences - Let curiosity guide you, dig for specific and miscellaneous information - ==**Your bits of information are lego blocks: the more diverse they are, the more interesting structures you can build**== - **Creativity is mostly about combining seemingly unrelated pieces of knowledge to form a new concept** - Originality is non-existent, but authenticity does exist > The best experiences see you throw yourself into the current, knowing that you may sink. The great majority lower themselves into the current with life-preservers around their necks, unaware that more often than not it is the life-preserver which sinks them. - **Geniuses don't arise from nothing: they are great consumers** - Your mind never gives you an idea without also giving you the power to execute it > Genius is the product of the hopes and longings of ordinary people. Destiny is a load of rubbish. Steve Jobs didn't just 'become' the greatest. And neither did Henry Ford. They woke up everyday, walked half a mile further than everyone else and fetched the key to the church.