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title: The Medici Effect
created: 2024-11-18T09:18:12
modified: 2025-10-16T04:58:08
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Increased [creativity](creativity-is-just-connecting-things.md) and [innovation](Innovation.md) occurs through diversity and intersectionality

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Breakthrough ideas are most often born at the intersection of disciplines \& cultures / when we bring concepts from one field into a new, unfamiliar territory.

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Many world-changing insights come from people with little or no related experience:

1. Charles Darwin was a geologist when he proposed the theory of evolution.
2. It was an astronomer who finally explained what happened to the dinosaurs.