There’s a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and i Chat. That’s crazy. Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you ask what they’re doing, you say ‘wow, ’ and soon you’re cooking up all sorts of ideas. Steve Jobs
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The idea is that spontaneous meetings and random discussions are the source of ideas. If you come up with an idea out of nowhere, it is probably something very different than what you were originally thinking about. For example, if someone said they saw a cat, you might think it was a dog. Games of chance or chance of the unexpected are the same way. When you get an idea in your head, it may be just that you misheard something or thought of something completely different than what you were originally thinking about.

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