Every Breakthrough Happens Twice. We Only Notice the Second Time

From Turner to Melville, history reveals a pattern: the future rarely looks like progress at first—it looks like failure.

EXPERT OPINION BY JEFF DEGRAFF, AUTHOR, THE ART OF CHANGE: TRANSFORMING PARADOXES INTO BREAKTHROUGHS @JEFFDEGRAFF

In the last years of his life, J. M. W. Turner began to paint as if the world were dissolving. Harbors blurring into light, storms losing their edges, and ships becoming impressions—barely held together by color and motion. To some viewers, the paintings looked unfinished; to others, excessive. The forms refused to settle into anything stable enough to name. It was not clear what Turner was doing, only that it did not........

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