Q&A: What Is Left for Me to Innovate
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What Is Left for Me to Innovate
Question
Rabbi, what is left for me to innovate? Every novel idea I might ever think of, someone has already thought of before me. Every philosophical thought, someone already thought of before me. I feel that there is nothing I can contribute that is truly new.
Answer
Don’t go looking for novelties. Study and develop your own thoughts. In the end, there is no study hall without some new insight. I don’t encounter a topic without having something new to say about it.