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I go to a lot of effort to find others with the same ideas as me and I found that I am unusually unique. Having a unique idea makes me feel insane and my compul

I go to a lot of effort to find others with the same ideas as me and I found that I am unusually unique. Having a unique idea makes me feel insane and my compulsion to test the idea comes from a need of validation. I would be much happier if someone else did it because there are more profitable things I could be working on. I don't think inventiveness is evenly distributed among the population. I think it can be both true that such talent is rare and that it needs the additionally rare appropriate time and place for it to flourish.

saltcured 4y ago
I think we might be on the same page here. Among billions, we are not as unique as we might intuit from our much smaller social circles. Aside from most of us probably having physical doppelgangers out there somewhere by mere chance, I suspect there are also psychological doppelgangers with many of our same traits and disposition, and these thought doppelgangers who were also fed enough of the same material to be thinking similar things. Sometimes we encounter one of these and have to decide whether they are fast friend, competitor, nemesis, or soul mate!