{"id":35828,"date":"2013-01-15T20:22:52","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T18:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=35828"},"modified":"2013-01-15T20:22:52","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T18:22:52","slug":"mark-earls-on-originality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=35828","title":{"rendered":"Mark Earls On Originality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/49423677\" width=\"922\" height=\"519\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Mark Earls On Originality\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n\u2018Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else&#8217;s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation\u2019, sniffed the anti-conformist Oscar Wilde. Today we too prize individuality and originality almost above everything else. Mark Earls explores the lie of originality in all its aspects and show the value of &#8216;social learning&#8217; (copying, to you and me) to help us put unoriginality back in its rightful place. And of course most of what he says will be other people&#8217;s ideas.  Video by  The School of Life<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else&#8217;s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation\u2019, sniffed the anti-conformist Oscar Wilde. Today we too prize individuality and originality almost above everything else. Mark Earls explores the lie of originality in all its aspects and show the value of &#8216;social learning&#8217; (copying, to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presentations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":122071,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=122071","url_meta":{"origin":35828,"position":0},"title":"Allergy to Originality","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"09\/05\/2014","format":false,"excerpt":"In this animated Op-Doc by Drew Christie, two men discuss whether anything is truly original \u2014 especially in movies and books. 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