A Technique for Producing Ideas (eBook als PDF)
This, then, is the whole process or method by which ideas are produced:
First, the gathering of raw materials – both the materials of your immediate problem and the materials which from a constant enrichment of your store of general knowledge.
Second, the working over of these materials in your mind.
Third, the incubating stage, where you let something beside the conscious mind do the work of synthesis.
Fourth, the actual birth of the Idea – the „Eureka! I have it“ stage.
And fifth, the final shaping and development of this idea to practical usefulness.
