Yale professor Craig Wright continues his course The Nature of Genius with a session on combinative thinking, the practice highly creative people use to fuse ideas from separate domains into something new. Wright traces the concept back to Einstein's own description of his process as combinatory play, linking unrelated images and concepts until a new pattern emerges. He works through examples from science and the arts to show how figures often labeled geniuses build on existing pieces rather than conjuring ideas from nothing, arguing that this recombination, not raw intelligence alone, is what produces breakthrough insight. The lecture sits within a broader survey of traits associated with genius, and this segment isolates one specific cognitive habit, showing how it operates across disciplines from physics to painting. Wright's delivery is plain and lecture-hall direct, aimed at undergraduates working through the course's central question of what actually makes a mind exceptional.