Chance favours the connected mind
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Or, where do good ideas come from:
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That’s all very well and good when it comes to inventing, say, the internet. But what about my brief for low price furniture that needs to be cracked in 48 hours?
that is so true. great video. i’m still waiting to use Russ Abbot in the USA. it’s coming!
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I love that line “Chance favours the connected mind”.
That’s another way of expressing Webster’s and Krone’s philosophy “The time to look for an idea is before you need it”.
I think it echoes the thoughts of the Black Swan theory: if you leave yourself open to/prepared for happy accidents, they will be far more likely to occur.