The list of “lone genius” icons and their far-more-obscure partners is miles long—Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak; William and Dorothy Wordsworth; Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph Abernathy; Pablo Picasso and George Braques. In every instance, for the better known member of the partnership, the critical piece of achievements was not any innate quality of gumption or originality or talent, but the way those qualities came to life through connection. If that seems far-fetched, it’s because our cultural obsession with the individual has obscured the power of the creative pair. npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101452310
Posted on: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 22:54:23 +0000
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