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title: Where do ideas come from?
description: Where do ideas come from? From connecting things you already knew together.
---

Stephen Johnson:** Chance favors the connected mind.**

I watched this as part of an entry in [Fred Wilson's Blog](http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/09/where-good-ideas-come-from.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+AVc+(A+VC)). Thinking systematically about how creativity works can help us put ourselves in the position to generate more good ideas.

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