KNOWING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GENERAL AND SPECIFIC AND PUTTING
IT TO USE CREATIVELYMike has the best toy collection of anyone I
know, and all us cartoonists collect toys. He categorizes them
carefully too... which is very fun to look at but it's also
instructive.When you see a variation on a theme it inspires you
to vary your own themes and strive to evolve your style and
avoid genericism. You might think there is only one generic
cartoon Indian design, but here are a whole pile of variations
on a type, which is just like real life. Knowing the difference
between a general category and a specific instance of it is the
key to understanding just about anything better. Aristotle and
Mike are 2 similar types - people who like to classify or
categorize, and then collect tons of variations within the
category to compare, contrast and see the limits of variation.
It's the key to invention. Darwin used Aristotle's
classification system and figured out how evolution worked by
comparing degrees of variation from gener