In any field of endeavor, it is impossible to make a significant contribution without first being strongly influenced by past achievements within that field.
Right from childhood, most people have hobbies, passions and dreams that make them feel living, and incline them to look to the ins and outs, and the achievers of this field for inspiration. Uptake and influence of an environment to try to contribute something prodigious to it are often prerequisites, and I concur with the author in this regard. It would be up, though, to a few mavericks to create their own path.
Mistakenly might one confound being strongly influenced with lacking imagination or copying his peers. Though, it is not synonymous with a dilution or loss of innovation but would be triggered to have a wider significance. An achievement in the medical field, for instance, is the result of years of collaborative and symbiotic process.
Inspiration is a defining constituent of our essence as humans, and is what makes our lives more colourful. It embodies the continuity of the goals we set for ourselves and might act as a stimulus to achieve wonders. Therefore, it is essential to note that no sub-field can work on its own and a substantial number of the inventions, discoveries and the use we derive from them flow from past inspirations and achievements. Our past is the foundation of present, which itself will be the grounds for possible significant future outcomes. Since ideas and imagination do not arise in a silo or a vacuum, one must look to what had been accomplished earlier to comprehend and thus impact a field. This is true in myriad scenarios from history, to mathematics and computer sciences.
The statement of the author is, however, unqualified as he outright ostracises potential contributions influenced by past achievements within different fields, but also the markets no one entered before. In business, some entrepreneurs have created entire professions and fields on their own. They might have extrapolated knowledge into an incipient ideal, but got off the beaten track to do it. Such an arguing finds also merit in the arts, where influence is boundary-less and cannot be boxed into one category. The sixth symphony of Beethoven was indeed influenced by the sounds he had heard during his walks in the countryside.
One should also stop and consider why human is the most advanced race in the known inter-planet system. The curiosity and daring temper of some scientists, entrepreneurs or explorers are also what distinguish us from animals, computers, and have led them to take paths less traveled. Edison and the electric bulb, in 1880, is a quintessential example. While before him no one would handle such a phenomenon, for it was touted as too dangerous, it has been his bent of mind orientated to what he believed in, not in what others had accomplished, that rendered people being able to properly live after the sunset.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, look, so, therefore, thus, while, as to, for instance
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.5258426966 118% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 28.0 14.8657303371 188% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 11.3162921348 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 38.0 33.0505617978 115% => OK
Preposition: 66.0 58.6224719101 113% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 12.9106741573 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2329.0 2235.4752809 104% => OK
No of words: 463.0 442.535393258 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.03023758099 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.63868890866 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.02187537808 2.79657885939 108% => OK
Unique words: 270.0 215.323595506 125% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.583153347732 0.4932671777 118% => OK
syllable_count: 718.2 704.065955056 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 7.0 1.77640449438 394% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.2850011451 60.3974514979 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.904761905 118.986275619 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0476190476 23.4991977007 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.66666666667 5.21951772744 70% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.210849009461 0.243740707755 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.05389363843 0.0831039109588 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.044007535815 0.0758088955206 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.117812516557 0.150359130593 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0530943226985 0.0667264976115 80% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 14.1392134831 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.8420337079 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.89 12.1639044944 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.23 8.38706741573 110% => OK
difficult_words: 132.0 100.480337079 131% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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