Pixar & Lichtenbergianism

In 2011, Pixar storyboard artist Emma Coats shared ‘22 Rules for Storytelling.’ They are:

Here’s my question: Where did “Emma Coats” — if that is her real human name even — get a time machine to read Lichtenbergianism: procrastination as a creative strategy in 2011, since it wasn’t published until 2017?? More than half the rules are Lichtenbergian Precepts and concepts.

To wit:

2. AUDIENCE

3. ABORTIVE ATTEMPTS

4. STEAL FROM THE BEST

5. SUCCESSIVE APPROXIMATION

7. KING OF HEARTS FALLACY

8. ABORTIVE ATTEMPTS

9. GESTALT/SUCCESSIVE APPROXIMATION

10. STEAL FROM THE BEST

11. ABORTIVE ATTEMPTS

12. SHINYPERFECT/ABORTIVE ATTEMPTS

17. ABANDONMENT/TASK AVOIDANCE

18. RITUAL

20. STEAL FROM THE BEST

22. GESTALT

Well done, Ms. Coats and Pixar! (And be honest — you had to scroll back up because you didn’t read them the first time, didn’t you?)

All this goes to show is that, as I said in the introduction to Lichtenbergianism, none of what I’ve written is new or original. MAKING THE THING THAT IS NOT is universal.

Go thou and do likewise.