"Dare not to mimick others"- How true!
We get trapped in the being or essence of others while mimicking them.
We think we are progressing but we are only running around in circles because we have make the people we are mimicking our focus instead of ourselves or something better.
or we may even progress but wont really go far in the end.#
Quite an educating post.
There are some opposing advices, but paradox is always with the case of oversimplifying matters (which what speakers and books do as we can't cover all corner case of our thesis). In Derek Thompson's talk there's something about piggybacking on familiarity to create familiar surprises. But yeah entrepreneurial efforts shouldn't have a tunnel vision about mimicking what's already existing :)