> I've been musing over this for about a decade now, and I have finally
> come up with a word which succinctly describes the problem:
>
> Originality.
>
> Apparently I am physiologically incapable of coming up with original
> ideas. Take music, for example. I have almost two decades of recordings
> I've made of myself performing various pieces of music that other people
> have written. But the number of original compositions that I've come up
> with myself can be counted on one hand.
>
> I can take an existing piece of music and make it sound good. I can tell
> you why it sounds good. But sitting looking at a blank piece of score, I
> can only sit there and think "now, what would sound good?"
>
> The same seems to hold for any other field of endeavour you can think
> of. I can look at a piece of work that somebody /else/ has produced and
> tell you why it's good. But I can't think of anything good myself. I
> simply lack any shred of originality. I can only copy other people's
> great works.

Creativity is not handed out evenly among the population.  Not all great 
musicians are made to ge great composers (and vice-versa), not all 
actors are made to be great playwrights, etc...

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