Connect the Dots
Want to know one of the secrets to being more creative? Making new connections. I'm not talking about people. I'm talking about experiences. Here's how Steve Job sees it:
"When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while.
"That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they've had more experiences or have thought more about their experiences than other people."Unfortunately, that's too rare a commodity. A lot of people haven't had very diverse experiences, so they don't have enough dots to connect and they wind up with very linear solutions."
If Jobs' quote makes sense to you, the creative thinking techniques linked below might help accelerate your process of connecting the dots...
Photo from Cult of Mac
Posted by Mitch Ditkoff at August 3, 2007 06:45 PM
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