Tag: ideas

• Start With Ideas

  You do not need to know what you are doing in order to do something great.

  Many amazing things have been created from nothing more than a single idea.

  A plan is optional, but ideas are essential.

  You can always devise a plan later, but ideas are transient and scarce.

  The goal, then, is not to have the best plan, but to have the best idea.

  This likely means having a lot of bad ideas as well.

  You will not know which ideas are good and which are bad, however, without testing them out, without following through on them, and without being willing to fail.

  Take risks, be playful, and try new things.

  Leave the planning for later.

  But never let a good plan get in the way of a great idea.

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  January 7, 2024

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• A Good Idea

  A good idea that does not work is not necessarily a bad idea.

  You may simply have poor execution.

  The timing may not be right.

  Perhaps you have the wrong audience.

  Or you might not have the support necessary for your idea to be successful.

  There are plenty of reasons why a good idea might fail.

  This does not mean you should give up on your idea.

  Dig into your failure and try to learn from it.

  You may need to prepare better.

  It could be that you need to find the correct audience or support network.

  Or you may simply need to hold onto your idea a bit longer, waiting for the right time to execute.

  But whatever you do, do not stop having ideas.

  At the end of the day, it is all just practice anyway.

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  November 20, 2023

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• Consuming Ideas

  Be careful what information you consume.

  You are more easily persuaded by outside influences than you would like to think.

  We are all grasping for certainty in this life.

  To this end, we tend to latch onto ideas, ideals, and values that give us comfort.

  Over time, these ideas begin to shape the way we think about the world and how we relate to it.

  If you are not highly disciplined or discerning, your attitudes and opinions will begin to change in order to conform to the ideas that you attach yourself to.

  Before you know it, your thoughts are not your own.

  They are merely a reflection of that which you consume.

  With your thoughts, your actions begin to change, followed by your relationships.

  Soon, your life no longer belongs to you; it belongs to the ideas that you have adopted.

  This is all well and good if the ideas you consume and conform to are true, but the truth is rarely, if ever, consumable.

  More often, truth is something discovered within yourself.

  It is better to start there.

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  November 14, 2023

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• Challenging Identity

  People often hold certain beliefs as a means of survival.

  Their beliefs help them to navigate through this complicated world.

  Life can be joyous and fulfilling, but it can also be tragic and heartbreaking.

  People’s beliefs give them something to hold onto for comfort and stability, and to help them to make sense of things that may not otherwise make any sense at all.

  When you challenge these beliefs, however, you are not simply challenging ideas.

  You are also challenging that person’s identity.

  As such, you will meet resistance.

  Before you do this, ask yourself if it is worth it.

  Ask yourself if your need to be right is really worth trying to dismantle someone else’s identity and security.

  Is what they choose to believe actually hurting you or anyone else?

  Do you need for them to change their mind in order for you to be happy?

  Does your identity, your stability, and your security hinge upon what someone else believes or does not believe?

  If not, perhaps you should just let them be.

  If so, perhaps you need to reconsider some of your own beliefs.

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  September 27, 2023

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• Embracing Friction

  We often get set in our ways because they have seemed to work for us thus far. 

  They brought us to this point, after all. 

  We are blinded by our own perceived success.  

  We cannot see what we cannot see and we cannot see what others see. 

  So we do not know if another way is better than what we have been doing. 

  We keep going in our own direction until we get stuck. 

  Failure is sometimes the only thing that can make us change our minds and change our ways. 

  This is why challenging ourselves is so important. 

  If we are not putting ourselves into situations that are difficult, wherein our limits are being tested, we are much more likely to have ideas, opinions, and make all sorts of presumptions with no way of knowing if they are true or not. 

  Our attitudes and habits are tested with friction. 

  If we avoid friction, we are more likely to remain ignorant of our errors in judgement. 

  The best way, therefore, to get on the right side of truth is to be willing to be wrong and to put ourselves in a position to fail. 

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  September 21, 2023

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