@ryanjamurphy
This is the 1st blockquote, the "native one:
[John Littlewood](http://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html):
> Speed of associative thought is, I believe, important in creative work.
And these are the 2 blockquotes that are transcluded below the “native” one:
1965 - James Webb Young [wrote](https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2014/08/steve-jobs-on-creativity/):
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> An idea is nothing more nor less than a new combination of old elements and the capacity to bring old elements into new combinations depends largely on the ability to see relationships.
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1995 - Steve Jobs [said](https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2014/08/steve-jobs-on-creativity/):
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> Creativity is just connecting things. 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.
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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 they have thought more about their experiences than other people. Unfortunately, that’s too rare a commodity. A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.
I hope that’s what you mean.
