Charlie is in the incubation stage of the creative process.
Explanation:
The creative process is the act of making new connections between old ideas. Thus, we can say creative thinking is the task of recognizing relationships between concepts. Being creative isn't about being the first (or only) person to think of an idea. More often, creativity is about connecting ideas.
Incubation is one of the four proposed stages of creativity, which are preparation, incubation, illumination, and verification. Incubation is related to intuition and insight in that it is the unconscious part of a process whereby an intuition may become validated as an insight.
