Thus in creativity there are bound to be at least, and at the very simplest, two phases, that may often nonetheless overlap: a phase of exploration guided by the imagination; followed, at a distance of anything from seconds to months, but in any case followed, by a critical sifting and evaluation of the results.

– Poincaré

— The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World by Iain McGilchrist a.co/7e95PqU