It seems to me that someone's ability to generate new ideas is at least in part driven by one's ability to make links between things that are not linked or very

It seems to me that someone's ability to generate new ideas is at least in part driven by one's ability to make links between things that are not linked or very distantly so. It is at that intersection that novel ideas emerges. To make it more concrete here's an example of my own. I was playing the game Zelda Breath of The Wild and was in awe of the beautiful landscapes you could visit. However, I had already finished the game and did not want to have to fire up my Wii U every time just to see them. This is when a novel idea emerged. What if I made a Google Map's Street Viewer for Zelda Breath of The Wild. You can see here that I subsconsiously made a link between two very distant things a video game and Google Map's street view. You can try it out for yourself here : https://nassimsoftware.github.io/zeldabotwstreetview https://nassimsoftware.github.io/zeldabotwstreetview (Do not use it if you're using cellular data because the panoramas are quite heavy) The idea was well recieved and gathered the attention of many gaming journals just google zelda street view to see for yourself. Before making this project I also searched if someone had done the same but no one did. I therefore thought that I had something pretty novel so worth doing. While my idea isn't groundbreaking in terms of science it demonstrate well the characteristics of a novel idea. (The intersection of different domains that seems to most distant.) It seems that to be able to do those links you must have breadth of knowledge instead of depth however it's still a mystery how some people are able to do this more frequently then others. Also here's a free idea : Make the same thing I did with Zelda but for other open world games.