Issue173 【天道酬勤作文互改小组】第十七次作业

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TOPIC: ISSUE173 - "Originality does not mean thinking something that was never thought before; it means putting old ideas together in new ways."
WORDS: 474          TIME: 00:40:42          DATE: 2007-7-20 14:27:49

When I were a child, I always liked to play building block---you can pose what you want only by some blocks, a tower, a building, a baby face, an angle, or evil as what you think an evil should be. Every kind of image is originality. So, in this way, what I try to say originality can be create by putting old ideas together in new ways or it can be ideally original.

In the first place, putting old ideas in new ways sometimes is a good method to create. Old things may lost its lust when the time past, Old ideas may never popular among people when the time past, Just like a garment, time can rapidly change a fashion to an old-fashion. But just look the new fashion things, what is the discrepancy between it and the old one? Are they totally different? Not absolutely. In clothing industry, you can find that the originality often rely on the clothes' material rather than style. Or the new one just makes a little change on the basis of the old one. So in this respect, do not regard originality as a thing which only few people can touch,  changing your mind and reconstituting by which you can also become a creator.

In the second place, compared with the method mention above, ideally originality will be a more challenge one. This will need people to be more creative. Take Newton for example. Almost everyone ought to gratitude the apple that fall upon Newton's head---which stimulated the flash of Newton's mind and which compelled borndom of the law of gravity. This discovery is what we called ideally originality. In the meanwhile, we should wonder, if the apple did not happen to hit him but another people, maybe the apple do not stimulate the man's mind, but facilitate the man's taste. The situation will be changed. In this circumstance, ideally originality is not easy, more thinking and more energy should be contributed to.

In the third place, another fact we should realize is that the two kind of methods access to originality do not mutual exclusive. Even if the latter one is more challenging, it can not be created by a person without a little knowledge. When he tries to make some significant discovery, he more or less recombines what he learned from books and experiences before in order to serve to the new baby. In the same time, the former one just recombines a less- abstract thing.

In sum, originality is not a very mystery thing which many people even dare not to attend to try. It is the very false cognition which makes us just to know how to obey the previous experience. Indeed, only a little change can you make your life more actively, only a little further thought makes the world more adaptable.