Like many of you I’m doing NaNoWriMo and as such I am more than usually interested in questions of creativity and how to help it along. The following is from an essay in MIT’s Technology Review by Isaac Asimov, in which he asks that most fundamental of questions, “How Do People Get New Ideas?”
… what is needed is not only people with a good background in a particular field, but also people capable of making a connection between item 1 and item 2 which might not ordinarily seem connected… Making the cross-connection requires a certain daring.
And so to you I say (with a nod to Theodore Roosevelt), dare greatly!
J.R. Johnson 
Great question. I think a lot about the creative process… where it comes from, the spark between separate thoughts that fire up an idea, how two people can see the same thing and have completely different interpretations and ideas. It’s a question well worth thinking about.
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