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To generate a quality idea your brain has to have a good understanding of the final goal (why bother coming up with ideas) and a deep domain understanding (for ideas to be detailed and relevant, not generic and worthless).

This is exactly why most of successful startup were founded by people already experienced in the industry of a startup.

To your question, ideas in my area of expertise come up by themselves naturally, just like you write code and don’t try to create a class definition, but just create it.

i never waste time on this nonsense train yourself to be creative activities.

But I tried in the past to be confident that it is a nonsense to make a profit from naive “success seekers”.

There is no generic creativity, no generic idea muscle to train, no general answer on “how” question.

It’s all about the details and specifics. Even though creative people in one specific area tend to stay creative in many others, this is not how they do it.

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