# Scott Young - Creativity Is Productivity (Highlights) ![rw-book-cover|256](https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/favicon.png) ## Highlights - **Be at a knowledge frontier.** You can’t contribute anything new if you’re not at the boundary of knowledge for a discipline. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gtddjwsp5ptggej6r5kq868c)) ^484190671 - **Idea generation and public reception are stochastic processes.** Once you reach the threshold, further advances have a significant random component. This might be due to the trial-and-error process of finding new advances. Or it might come from the unpredictability of public taste as to what work receives acclaim. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gtddjnd7sey1dkggc4a7b6c0)) ^484190650