Your questions are SO GOOD. I’m having to look up each area you so kindly linked to in your post to explore my own thoughts on this so I can be more informed in a response, but I immediately thought of Stephen Johnson’s book on where ideas come from and the impact of the introduction of coffee culture in Europe on the intelligentsia at the time, cross-pollinating ideas and knowledge from many different areas of focus so that new ideas could arise, build, evolve, invoke…
Your questions are SO GOOD. I’m having to look up each area you so kindly linked to in your post to explore my own thoughts on this so I can be more informed in a response, but I immediately thought of Stephen Johnson’s book on where ideas come from and the impact of the introduction of coffee culture in Europe on the intelligentsia at the time, cross-pollinating ideas and knowledge from many different areas of focus so that new ideas could arise, build, evolve, invoke…
Tamsen, thank you for the inspiration!
I'll look, that one up, Kiki, thank you!
You bet, Tamsen! I'll make it easier (I'm on my laptop now and just grabbed the link to his book on Amazon) – https://a.co/d/04bSSBlN
Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation (published in 2011)
And I misspelled his first name. He is Steven with a "v" not a "ph" as I had written before.
Thank you!!!