> Humans haven’t been successful because we are innovators. Rather, we are successful because we don’t think for ourselves, and save time and energy by copying others.
This is just plain incorrect.
Humanity functions in three groups: creators, mimics and teachers.
The creators are the less cautious types that strike out and build new things, attempt to invent or innovate. Their personalities and behaviors are quite often noticeably different from everyone else.
Mimics copy, copy, copy. They're probably ~95-97% of the population. Their success depends on successfully copying other models that work.
Teachers primarily exist to train mimics, to amplify knowledge out to humanity. They're mimics with bullhorns and a desire to pass on things that have worked and knowledge acquired broadly by the species (lessons learned, etc).
This works, this is successful, initiate copy mode. And off it goes. Humans are exceptionally good at that for sure. We just got a remarkable, prominent, several decade demonstration of it at a global level in so called globalization. Creators are the ones that initiate the next things to be copied, the next things that get taught from a textbook in school, and so on (to be clear, most creators suffer terribly and never achieve much of anything; theirs is a low success rate, high reward path).
This is just plain incorrect.
Humanity functions in three groups: creators, mimics and teachers.
The creators are the less cautious types that strike out and build new things, attempt to invent or innovate. Their personalities and behaviors are quite often noticeably different from everyone else.
Mimics copy, copy, copy. They're probably ~95-97% of the population. Their success depends on successfully copying other models that work.
Teachers primarily exist to train mimics, to amplify knowledge out to humanity. They're mimics with bullhorns and a desire to pass on things that have worked and knowledge acquired broadly by the species (lessons learned, etc).
This works, this is successful, initiate copy mode. And off it goes. Humans are exceptionally good at that for sure. We just got a remarkable, prominent, several decade demonstration of it at a global level in so called globalization. Creators are the ones that initiate the next things to be copied, the next things that get taught from a textbook in school, and so on (to be clear, most creators suffer terribly and never achieve much of anything; theirs is a low success rate, high reward path).