Creativity does not come from a muse. It all comes from combining pre-existing ideas. That’s important because it means you can make a process out of being creative. It can be driven, rather than waiting for inspiration.1

Ingesting good ideas to combine comes from reading and accessing the experience of others2.

Footnotes

  1. Milo, Le Cunff (2022), How Can We Do Combinational Creativity

  2. Forte (2022), The Secret Power of ‘Read It Later’ Apps