Steve Jobs credited a calligraphy class for shaping the aesthetic sensibility of Apple’s typography. Jobs wasn’t a designer, but the exposure to that world forever changed how we appreciate Apple's software, hardware, and even presentation design.

James Dyson got tired of vacuums sucking (or not sucking enough, technically), so he looked at cyclones, jet engines, and architecture. Because, why not? Dyson’s vacuum wasn’t born from vacuuming more, it came from looking way beyond the expected.

• Watch a documentary on something random, like Abstract: The Art of Design on Netflix

• Listen to a podcast about music theory: Song Exploder is really good!

• Keep a creative journal and jot down seemingly unrelated ideas... you'll see some applications in your own projects. I keep a Muji Passport notebook on me all the time.

• Watch The playbook on Netflix. I got a lot of good inspirations for managing teams.

• 2018 was one of the hardest time in my personal life. I listened to The Tim Ferriss Show a lot and loved the episodes where guests talked about cross-discipline learning. Malcolm Gladwell's obsession with running influenced his writing process. Hugh Jackman practiced Brazilian jiu-jitsu for physical discipline and mental clarity, which he used to improve his acting performances and overall creativity.

• Read The War of Art by Steven Pressfield. I love this quote from the book, "The amateur waits for inspiration; the professional shows up and does the work."

You don’t need to like everything you try—just give your brain something unfamiliar to chew on.

Exposing to ideas and fields totally unrelated to my own has helped me a lot creatively!