How Not to Be Getting Good Ideas
Let's be clear here every idea is a good idea! The difference is that some work and some don't.
The fact that you have had an idea however is good.
It's good because your creative juices are flowing, which means that you are using your brain to improve a situation.
This may range from a business idea to being able to get an idea for writing a novel.
An extremely wide range indeed! So the secret here is having got that idea is just to get on and do it; right? Well no that is precisely the way not to get good ideas and then waste them.
From experience, some ideas seem initially good and then don't work, others seem all wrong and are not tried but they may have worked.
This is problematical.
How do you know which is which? The getting of ideas on a "whim" is not always a good reason to progress that idea.
It might be but there again it might not.
Ideas that come from someone else may be good too but is it really your idea and do you understand why they thought of that? Does something in a newspaper, or magazine or billboard pique your interest? Often these things will generate an idea, but where do you go from there? So there are a lot of questions here and unanswered for the moment.
There are no "secrets", no magical formulas that can whisk up ideas in a jiffy.
The answer is much simpler than that..
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The way to get a good idea is to be in a position that you are aware of what you want to achieve at the beginning.
You might not know how, and you might not know why, but you have a glimmer of something that you would like to achieve.
To progress this "glimmer of an idea", simply needs good observation on your part.
It really is that simple, but there is a process that you will need to understand to get the results you want.
You won't always get the right idea in the beginning so be prepared to fail, but realize that with each failure you are nearer to your goal you are eliminating the parts that don't work.
Compare this process to designing a recipe for a meal.
You think of a dish, and then add ingredients to make it tasty and different.
You search for the best ingredients.
Sometimes the ingredient you add works nicely like garlic will in many cases for savoury dishes but, you wouldn't usually put garlic in a dessert, would you? Well you might if you we were the English chef Heston Blumenthal, but that's another story.
So you test and try until it suits your palette.
Getting good ideas that work, which is quantified as being workable, is the same.
In order to note anything down you need to observe the subject matter in an very open manner which takes a bit of learning but once you have achieved it, you'll find ideas all the time and you will know how to assess their viability or profitability.
They don't come at random but at your instigation, that's how to get a good idea.
The fact that you have had an idea however is good.
It's good because your creative juices are flowing, which means that you are using your brain to improve a situation.
This may range from a business idea to being able to get an idea for writing a novel.
An extremely wide range indeed! So the secret here is having got that idea is just to get on and do it; right? Well no that is precisely the way not to get good ideas and then waste them.
From experience, some ideas seem initially good and then don't work, others seem all wrong and are not tried but they may have worked.
This is problematical.
How do you know which is which? The getting of ideas on a "whim" is not always a good reason to progress that idea.
It might be but there again it might not.
Ideas that come from someone else may be good too but is it really your idea and do you understand why they thought of that? Does something in a newspaper, or magazine or billboard pique your interest? Often these things will generate an idea, but where do you go from there? So there are a lot of questions here and unanswered for the moment.
There are no "secrets", no magical formulas that can whisk up ideas in a jiffy.
The answer is much simpler than that..
...
The way to get a good idea is to be in a position that you are aware of what you want to achieve at the beginning.
You might not know how, and you might not know why, but you have a glimmer of something that you would like to achieve.
To progress this "glimmer of an idea", simply needs good observation on your part.
It really is that simple, but there is a process that you will need to understand to get the results you want.
You won't always get the right idea in the beginning so be prepared to fail, but realize that with each failure you are nearer to your goal you are eliminating the parts that don't work.
Compare this process to designing a recipe for a meal.
You think of a dish, and then add ingredients to make it tasty and different.
You search for the best ingredients.
Sometimes the ingredient you add works nicely like garlic will in many cases for savoury dishes but, you wouldn't usually put garlic in a dessert, would you? Well you might if you we were the English chef Heston Blumenthal, but that's another story.
So you test and try until it suits your palette.
Getting good ideas that work, which is quantified as being workable, is the same.
- You search out the ideas (ingredients)
- You analyse those (tasting)
- You finalize them (get it in the right order)
- Present your idea in a finished state, knowing it works (serve your dish to the hungry diner!)
In order to note anything down you need to observe the subject matter in an very open manner which takes a bit of learning but once you have achieved it, you'll find ideas all the time and you will know how to assess their viability or profitability.
They don't come at random but at your instigation, that's how to get a good idea.
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