For creativity to succeed, then, there needs to be breadth of vision; the capacity to forge distant links; flexibility rather than rigidity; a willingness to respond to a changed or changing context; as well as tolerance of ambiguity and of knowledge that is, at least at the outset, inherently imprecise.

— The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World by Iain McGilchrist a.co/ingE4o6