You need to gather two types of raw material – specific material about your current project in hand and general material … the interesting stuff you come across day to day.

Of equal importance is the continuous process of feeding your mind with "general materials".

Steve Jobs: “Creativity is just connecting things.”

“The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.”

“Do not make the mistake of holding your idea close to your chest at this stage. Submit it to the criticism of the judicious.

“When you do, a surprising thing will happen. You will find that a good idea has, as it were, self-expanding qualities. 

“Do not make the mistake of holding your idea close to your chest at this stage. Submit it to the criticism of the judicious.

“When you do, a surprising thing will happen. You will find that a good idea has, as it were, self-expanding qualities. 

"It stimulates those who see it to add to it. 

"Thus possibilities in it which you have overlooked will come to light.”

“Do not make the mistake of holding your idea close to your chest at this stage. Submit it to the criticism of the judicious.

“When you do, a surprising thing will happen. You will find that a good idea has, as it were, self-expanding qualities.