What Adam Smith thinks about creativity

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Scottish moral philosopher and economist (1723 to 1790); held the chair of moral philosophy at Glasgow University from 1752 to 1764; author of The Wealth of Nations.

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1. 9 Mar 1776

   Our readingA worker who spends a whole life on a few simple, repetitive tasks generally loses the habit of thinking

   Their wordsThe man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects, too, are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention, in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.

   ↗An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nationsgutenberg.org All 7 from this book