An idea is a new connection between two things

As we’ve said, an idea is simply a new connection between two things that were already floating around in your head. When you give your brain a problem to solve, it goes to work, way in the background, by jamming disparate pieces of knowledge and experience together in different ways until a light bulb goes off. “Does this work?” Maybe, maybe not, but you don’t want to cut off the flow of ideas yet, so you say: “Good job, brain! What else have you got?”^[1]

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See also:

• Liquid Networks foster innovation
• Lateral thinking is range in action
• Specialization tends to reduce range
• Integrative, Macroscopic Thinking is antithetical to higher education
• Idea quotas foster creativity