Creativity requires you to connect two unconnected ideas

What is needed is not only people with a good background in a specific field. People should be capable of connecting ideas that are not usually related.

Consider the theory of evolution, created by both Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace.

• Both travelled to distant places.
• Both observed strange species of plants and animals and how they varied from place to place.
• Both were eager to find an explanation.
• Both failed until they read Thomas Malthus's "Essay on population".