Many of us need to be percolating our ideas
The creative process starts with your own ideas and not the thoughts of Plato. Although his version of the Idea is a healthy and perfectionist/idealist way of thinking it prevents any imagination of your own, whereas his philosophy of beauty, justice, dignity, beliefs and thinking isn't to be dismissed, we need our dignity, thinking and beauty, but what I want you to do is come up with your own ideas, keep it percolating before you write a book, do your 9-5 job, eat your breakfast, do this all day but manifest it and the external reality into the outside world. Geniuses and smart people do this, but this isn't about learning, even though you're stuck in the learning process, it means: think, don't learn, but I swear you're going to reject it. The project for you to do is: come up with your own ideas, be introverted, instead of focussing on study think into creative genius. It's best if you weren't a researcher or a scientist, so here's the only thing you ought to study: your holy books, and that's it, keep the ignorance going, know that your own mind is your own invention. :)