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    Disguised repetition: vary the execution, never the theme

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    Disguised repetition: vary the execution, never the theme

    People find things more pleasurable the more times they are repeated - unless they become aware of the repetition. Musicologist David Huron calls it disguised repetition, and it dissolves the consistency-versus-freshness trade-off: the craft is variation on a theme, not reinvention. Monet painted 250 waterlilies; Marmite has run love-it-or-hate-it for decades.

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    System1 x IPA, The Power of Compound Creativity (2025)

    Andrew Tindall (System1)

    David Huron, via The Power of Compound Creativity, s. 36-39

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