He says, 'When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.' As an engi

He says, 'When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.' As an engineer, that's not quite how I think (maybe everyone's different though). What I think about is all the time I spent grokking the subject so that I could see and appreciate the simple connections later. Diversity in one's approach is really important. And that's underrated -- and powerful that he appreciates that. But perhaps equally important is using the actual design that you've developed to help you find the creative connections. There's just so much focused overlap there. So much quiet feedback that can become powerful -- with a few (somewhat metacircular) iterations, etc.