[vezycash]

>creative greatness appears to be doing things differently

I've done things differently just out of boredom caused by doing a task, the same way repeatedly.

Example: I sometimes get tired of a particular food and tweak it by adding a new ingredient or eating it with something different.

>Edison was unlucky—he failed to invent fuel cells. The first comercially successful fuel cells were developed in the mid-twentieth century, long after Edison moved on to pursuing other ideas. >Edison always had somewhere to channel his efforts whenever he ran into temporary obstacles

This is completely different from the "Edison never gave up and kept working till he succeeded" talks.

[dkersten]

> This is completely different from the "Edison never gave up and kept working till he succeeded" talks.

Yeah.. Its actually better, IMHO, because knowing when to move onto the next thing (and not letting your previous failure deter you from the next thing) is an important part of success. Sometimes the diversion lets you come back to the original thing with new insight later (or after your subconscious has worked on it for some time).