For original ideas to come about, you have to let them percolate under…

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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For original ideas to come about, you have to let them percolate under the level of consciousness in a place where we have no way to make them obey our own desires or our own direction. Their random combinations are driven by forces we don't know about.
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