Steve Jobs once said, “Creativity is just connecting things.”

I don’t know how many people deliberately attempt making new connections — what one might call “connection hunting” — but it’s a good skill to develop. Multi-sport-athlete (world record holder!) and entrepreneur Laura D’Asaro pushes herself to make connections every single day. She is hands-down one of the most creative people I know, and one of the most inventive entrepreneurs I have met. In our fantastic conversation (available here) she described her process.

Importantly, she has a process!

What’s your process for connecting things?

A couple of our favorites at the d.school are the Wonder Wander, Analogous Exploration, Divergent Diversions, and radical collaboration. Or you could tempt lightning with scrappy experiments.

The fundamental task of the innovator is to forge new connections. As obvious as that sounds, I wonder how many folks go connection hunting.

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