…hyper connectivity is what drives creativity, because it allows the person to draw information and ideas and emotions and experiences simultaneously from different parts of the brain and therefore not to rely so much on categorization of skills, or of ideas and so-on in a way that most people do. Being able to make those kinds of unusual leaps between one idea and another or between one emotion or image or experience and another, most people would agree is a characteristic of creativity.

from Psychology Today’s Beautiful Minds blog – “Conversations on Creativity with Daniel Tammet” by Scott Barry Kaufman. An interesting read. Check it out here.