Plagiarism: The practice of taking someone’s work or ideas and passing them off on one’s own.

What we are saying
1. Ideas do not come out of a vacuum, they come out of a culture. Frank Moore, “No preacher is greater than the tradition itself.” Your perceived originality is overhyped.

2. As you’re learning to turn the faucet on, you might need a clear springboard to get to your own idea. Where people get in trouble: They make no effort to make it their own.

Originality is overstated.

You have to copy before you can be original, you have to know the moves before you can make up your own steps.