{"id":11922,"date":"2013-04-11T22:47:12","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T03:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=11922"},"modified":"2013-04-11T22:47:48","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T03:47:48","slug":"venn-diagrams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=11922","title":{"rendered":"Venn diagrams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following Venn diagram seems simple enough.  Two sets intersect to create a set that is smaller and more restricted:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/venn.png\" alt=\"venn\" title=\"venn\" width=\"333\" height=\"215\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11923\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/venn.png 333w, http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/venn-300x193.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 333px) 85vw, 333px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Yet when it comes to people, this logic is often completely wrong.  The place where Lennon and McCartney worked creatively together was far larger than the creative space each would ever claim on their own. The same goes for Gilbert and Sullivan, Abbot and Costello, Ashman and Mencken, Siegel and Schuster, Greenwich and Barry, Dannay and Lee, Rodgers and Hammerstein and many others.<\/p>\n<p>And so we have what seems like a contradiction: When it comes to human creativity, the set of intersecting talent can be far larger than the set of talents possessed by either participant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following Venn diagram seems simple enough. Two sets intersect to create a set that is smaller and more restricted: Yet when it comes to people, this logic is often completely wrong. The place where Lennon and McCartney worked creatively together was far larger than the creative space each would ever claim on their own. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=11922\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Venn diagrams&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11922"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11922"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11928,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11922\/revisions\/11928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}