Serendipity and Learning

Continuing from the previous post... I have been often been labelled as a "creative" person. And I have firmly believed that I am not someone who is artistically creative or someone who has so called original thoughts. I believe (with good reason) that my creative outputs are a function of joining dots that are non obvious.  I read a lot, gather tons of information and sometimes in that pot-pourri ideas emerge which are not obvious to others.  Is this the only way it works - I dont know - this is just my view or my own confirmation bias. Either way my creativity has not been enough for me to make enough money out of it. It is still at a hobbyish level.  What works for ideas, possibly works for opinions as well.  That a lot of opinions we hold are not really ours - they are hand me downs. They come from somewhere else. Mostly some person. And nowadays with social media it comes from a specific cluster. So, what is the way out? Critical thinking. Go and read and find o...