Last week I riffed on how success creates conservatism.

My friend Anthea Roberts shared some interesting observations.

Apparently Howard Gardner did research on common factors that serial innovators have.

Their key distinguishing factor is that they deliberately go to the edges of the system and away from the center.

If their thing becomes successful, instead of staying at the center of this thing they created, becoming more conservative, they push themselves to the edge to find a new thing to create.