He gives away the medals he wins.
Original thinkers try to learn new tricks rather than keep performing the old one. In Winehouse’s words: “Never the same thing twice, yeah?” That’s why Coates, after writing a best-selling essay on the black American condition, is now following up with a superhero comic. Original thinkers never intend to arrive. They just keep questing. Wenger, now 66, recently told French newspaper L’Equipe: “I always live in the future.” He gives away the medals he wins.