People who make great creative advances share an obsessive passion for understanding details and seeing how pieces connect; they believe 'god is in the details' and this manifests across domains—from Leonardo dissecting eye muscles to understand light refraction in the Mona Lisa, to Steve Jobs obsessing over chamfered electrical plugs, to Jennifer Doudna studying how guide RNA structure determines function.

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Walter Isaacson

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these type of people who realize that god is in the details those are the people who make great advances

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What You Can Learn From History's Greatest Innovators | Walter Isaacson | The Knowledge Project 121The Knowledge Project Podcast
Created: 8/12/2026, 10:30:56 PM

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