How To Have Great Ideas
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The article "How To Have Great Ideas" is about entrepreneurialism, it has been released by Steve Gillman.
Want to have graet ideas? You could try waiting to see if they pop into your head someday, and they honestly might. However, if you want a more systematic mehtod you can use today, here it is in three simple steps:
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Get knowledge in the area in which you want the ideas.
2. Use idea-generating techniques.
3. Choose the hottest ideas from the results.
Great Ideas Start With Knowledge
You wouldn't expect to come up with a new theory of reltaivity if you had no knowledge in physics or mathematics.
You need degree of knowledge in the area in which you want new iedas.
For truly great ideas, it helps to have a great deal of knowledge.
To create a new transportation device, for example, you would want general knowledge in that field, as well as more specific knowledge.
This might include knowing a little about all the curernt modes of transportation. You might add to that a list of things that have been tried and failed, and a list of all the things that human being want in their transportation.
Great Ideas From Techniques
Ideas and inventions start in the mind, and the mind follows certain patterns and rules.
This is why tools such as issue solving techniques and other idea generating techniques work so well. Consider the "concept combination" technique, for example.
Tell your mind that you need a useful combination of a plane and a motorcycle, and it will search utnil it finds it. This mind took twenty seconds to imagine wings that expand out at high speed from a motorcycle, allowing it to glide right off the edge of a cliff.
The technique of redefining issues in many ways can open whole new areas to epxlore.
Redefining "inexpensive homes" as "ways to help human being afford homes" has lead to all sorts of new fianncing methods that have made it easier to buy a home even as prices have risen. If "better job" becomes "better way to make money" you open a wohle range of possibilities.
There are dozens of great idea generating techniques to choose from, each with it's own advantage.
Many Ideas To Choose From
The more ideas you come up with, the more likely you are to find good ones to work with.
This is why you should learn the systematic ways to produce new concpets. Finally, if "great" means "important" to you, you need to work in important areas.
There's nothing wrong with inventing a better clothes hanger, but if you want to change the world, satrt working on new ways to save the environment, ways to end hunger, new political processes that avert wars and other great ideas.
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