We live in an age when the most valuable asset any economy can have is the ability to be creative - to spark and imagine new ideas, be they Broadway tunes, great books, iPads or new cancer drugs. And where does creativity comes from?
"To be creative requires divergent thinking (generating many unique ideas) and then convergent thinking (combining those ideas into the best result). It comes from being exposed to divergent ideas and cultures and peoples and intellectual disciplines. One thing we must know about creativity is that it typically occurs when people who have mastered two or more quite different fields use the framework in one to think afresh about the other(rojak, in my own terms =) )
Leonardo da Vinci was a great blah blah and blah, eane(and) each specialty nourished the other. He was a great lateral thinker. But if you spend your whole life in one silo, you will never have either the knowledge or the mental agility to do the synthesis, connect the dots, which is usually where the great breakthrough is found
Thomas Friedman
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