Good Artists copy - Great Artists Steal - I will explain to you what this means -
We think - We need to invent - We need to be Original ------We don’t -
Lets break it down -
Good Artists copy --- Lets first acknowledge that Copying is intelligent - Why? Because you see something that works and you decide to do what is working - thats smart - - so Arnold Schwarzenegger saw the picture of Reg Park in a magazine - Reg Park was the Mr. Olympia when Arnold was 14 years old - Reg Park also had a career in films -
14 year old Arnold - basically copied Reg Park - his copied his whole life - that was intelligent - But he didn’t just copy - he did it better than Reg Park - this is where he stole it -
So once again -
Do what works - i.e. copy - but then do it better - by doing it better - you put your signature on it - and it becomes yours - so first you copy - but then you do it so well - that you steal it - it becomes yours -
Arnold copied Reg Park - but today -- you might not know who Reg Park is - you know who Arnold Schwarzenegger is -
Arnold didn’t just copy - he stole it -
Another way of putting this - Fake it till you make it -
Faking is another way of saying --- Copying ---
If you truly copy day after day - what Great people are doing - be default -- you become good - but eventually - but eventually --
You do it better than who did it first - and at that point -- you steal it --
Facebook copied Myspace - but then they did it better - and you are now wondering - What is Myspace?
Instagram copied Snapchat Story - hmm - you’re thinking -
What is Snapchat again? - you probably never used snapchat
Google was not the first search engine - They copied someone -
they stole it so nicely --- I don’t even know who they copied --
I just know Google- -
A guy named Sam Walton opened a couple of shops in America - and wrote a book about it - Name of the Book - Made in America - Jeff Bezos read this book many times and copied the idea to make Amazon -
Name of this shop - WALMART
You thought all these ideas were original? Turns out - they all are thieves -
No ideas are original - In Geeta they say - Tumne jo liya yahi se liya - jo diya yahi pe diya - which means -
Everything that you have - you got it from here - and everything you lost - you lost it here - so what are you crying about?
We are a product of influences and opportunities --
which this world bestowed upon us.
What we do with those influences will determine our Legacy ---- So ---
Good Artists Copy - Great Artists Steal - Pablo Picasso said this -
It took me a couple of years to fully understand the meaning of this quote.
I finally understand it -
