Sterling Terrell

recovering economist

There Is Nothing New?

There Is Nothing New?

There is nothing new, so you can quit being stressed about it all.

Take a deep breath.

Relax.

Quit putting pressure on yourself to reinvent the wheel and come up with new ideas.

Ecclesiastes 1:9 is as true today as it was then.

I mean sure, science advances and current events take place.

But if you try to come up with a completely new idea, you will find that it’s nearly impossible.

The originality is in connecting ideas that no one has thought to connect before.

Or maybe I am just trying to convince myself here.

The historian Will Durant once wrote, “Nothing is new except arrangement.” Even that quote is not new, however, hearkening back to the biblical line that there is “nothing new under the sun.” What we perceive as original is often just a rearrangement of what has come before. This is especially true for creativity.

One Idea Can Change You?

One Idea Can Change You?

One idea can change everything.

Of course, it can.

Plenty of people can point back to one book, one discussion, one event, one idea, that gave them a new perspective and set their life on a different course.

Warren Buffet, for example, has said that Benjamin Graham’s book, The Intelligent Investor, changed his life.

There are other examples.

One piece of content can change everything too.

What idea will change yours?

One idea will change everything. One idea will change the world. You and I have seen one idea make billions of dollars. We’ve seen one idea save millions of lives. And one idea can move you from where you are to where you want to be. Incidentally, don’t ever allow yourself to believe that all the great ideas have been taken. Never forget that, as a society, we put men on the moon before anyone thought to put wheels on luggage! How many ideas are out there, waiting patiently for YOU to show up?

-Andy Andrews, The Little Things

Sterling Terrell