Where do Ideas come from?

Let's talk about recipes. No, I’m not talking about actual food recipes, so if you were thinking of chocolate cake recipes you’re in the wrong place (but it does look scrumptious right?).

 I’m talking about the kind of recipes which create ideas. You know, like I’m still in awe with people who came up with the invention of the wardrobe, chair, rubber band, language... I can’t imagine living without them but it’s a thing we all take for granted.

Then there are the people who have never met each other but come up with similar ideas like books (content), hairdressing, and yeah, food recipes...

I remember overhearing the conversation of someone who was doing some research of a local composer whose music sounded similar to a foreign composer (both names have escaped my memory) and composed them within the same decade or so. Thing is they never met and allegedly, they never heard each other’s music and it got me thinking.

It could be that the ingredients are always available to us. We have to make up the connection. For example; the ingredients for chocolate ice cream, milk and a mixer will yield a milkshake. Different people from various corners of the world can make the same connection, or they can continue to embellish milkshakes with different flavours, and adding other stuff like fruit and nuts. Or they can invent something else other than the milkshake.

Likewise, an invention of sorts acts the same.

Or else if you are surrounded by the arts – any form, you unconsciously drink from the ideas and they become your blood and bone and you can make up the connection intuitively.

Or else you can be surrounded  by nature. You learn how to observe and come up with innovative ideas. For example the way they came up with the streamlined car is by observing fish (or something like that).

Or it can be anything else. The one thing you have to do is to continuously see what’s right in front of you as well as what is inside of you.