Create and Connect more dots!

Once in a while, a creative act comes out of nowhere, an innovation, something  apparently created out of thin air.  

Although this is easy for God it is not the way most mere mortals work in coming up with new things.

Creativity is connecting. When you ask a creative person how they did something, they actually  may feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they connected the dots in a way that others didn't see. It just seemed obvious to them.
 

"Creativity is the ability to see relationships where seemingly none exist." -- Thomas Disch

New ideas are generated because someone was able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do this was because they’ve had more experiences or have thought more about their experiences than other people have. Unfortunately, it is too rare a commodity these days.  This is because we have created a culture of entitlement.  We want others to do the work and deliver it too us effortlessly....at lightening speed and wirelessly preferably.  Most of us haven’t had very diverse experiences, enough education, or been curious enough to be able to connect more than a couple of dots.   This leaves very few resources for creativity and not enough dots to connect, and ends with very linear solutions, without a broad perspective on the problem.

"I pressed down on the mental accelerator. The old lemon throbbed fiercely. I got an idea."  -- P G Wodehouse.

I encourage you to collect more dots...learn, listen, try something new and start connecting your old and new dots.  I look forward to being amazed by your new feats of creativity and innovation! 

And for fun from the brilliant Bill Watterson: