This is a farm in Waxhaw, NC where you can book a night to go wine and dine. Almost everything you eat is grown and raised on the farm. When you arrive at the farm you will be given a tour of the farm. It is absolutely beautiful. Then you will be served a 5 course meal, it’s well worth the cost.
If you can’t make it out to the farm you are still able to eat their food! Meet them at the farmers market in Matthews. But get there early! They sell out fast! Market opens at 7:15.
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they’ve had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people.
Unfortunately, that’s too rare a commodity. A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.