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You know, Darwin didn’t invent the theory of evolution. He discovered it. First, it was discovered out in the world by him, then again in his notes when he actually pieced them together. Like so many other things, the theory wasn’t invented, it was discovered.
The difference between inventing and discovering can be debated, but for the sake of this text, I’d like to establish one possible difference. That is, invention takes intent, discovery is somewhat accidental. I know that’s not bullet proof, but I’d like to try it out.
The process of invention takes a lot of discovery. We might want to invent something, and discover something completely different. The most potent argument for that being the discovery of antibiotics.
For the possibility to discover something, there needs to be action taken in the first place. Darwin set out to find something. Fleming was doing research, just not on mould that potentially would cure us.
There’s high value to just doing something, anything really. Some people need to do many many many things before they turn out to become something of interest. Some need to do something for a very very very long time before it turns being something. But doing it is key either way.