I don't even bother trying. Hoarding "ideas" doesn't make any sense to me.
I will always have ideas. The Halfbakery website is full of people's ideas. My mom has ideas. Everyone has ideas. Someone's probably had the very same idea already.
Ideas are so cheap and common, they're almost worthless by themselves.
I put far more value into execution. Actually making an idea happen, that's where the value is. In order to make ideas happen, I need resources, so what I need to concentrate on right now is developing lots and lots of resources.
Whenever I need an analogy, I think of ideas as being seeds. You can go to just about any store these days and pick up a little packet of seeds for real cheap. Each one of those seeds has the potential to become something beautiful, but only if you give it soil and water and sunshine and a place to grow.
So before I go trying to figure out where to store all my piles of packets of seeds, I should figure out how I'm going to get the farmland I need to grow them all in the first place.
Ideas have value. Most good ideas are a result of the unique perspective of the person who has them. Many years of life experience (working in an industry, talking to others, etc) usually go into coming up with a new idea, not to mention research and detailed thought about specific problems.
Ideas are very common, every person has them. But good ideas are rare. Consistently coming up with good ideas is difficult, and it might be worth it to give some thought to the process.
I am of the opinion that good ideas are generally the sum of worthwhile but small ideas and that there is in fact the need for "coagulate" these together to have something worth it.
To carry on your analogy, I believe the original question was more similar to: I have farmland that's currently completely saturated with a variety of bountiful crops, but every day I'm finding these new seeds that seem like they would make for even better crops, and that seem like genuinely fun things to plant. However, as excited as I am about planting them, I don't have the resources—my farmland is full. How do I store the seeds in a way that will persist the level of excitement I had about them, so that when I reap one of my crops, I can pick the next idea to follow from my piles of packets?
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I don't even bother trying. Hoarding "ideas" doesn't make any sense to me.
I will always have ideas. The Halfbakery website is full of people's ideas. My mom has ideas. Everyone has ideas. Someone's probably had the very same idea already.
Ideas are so cheap and common, they're almost worthless by themselves.
I put far more value into execution. Actually making an idea happen, that's where the value is. In order to make ideas happen, I need resources, so what I need to concentrate on right now is developing lots and lots of resources.
Whenever I need an analogy, I think of ideas as being seeds. You can go to just about any store these days and pick up a little packet of seeds for real cheap. Each one of those seeds has the potential to become something beautiful, but only if you give it soil and water and sunshine and a place to grow.
So before I go trying to figure out where to store all my piles of packets of seeds, I should figure out how I'm going to get the farmland I need to grow them all in the first place.
Ideas have value. Most good ideas are a result of the unique perspective of the person who has them. Many years of life experience (working in an industry, talking to others, etc) usually go into coming up with a new idea, not to mention research and detailed thought about specific problems.
Ideas are very common, every person has them. But good ideas are rare. Consistently coming up with good ideas is difficult, and it might be worth it to give some thought to the process.
I am of the opinion that good ideas are generally the sum of worthwhile but small ideas and that there is in fact the need for "coagulate" these together to have something worth it.
To carry on your analogy, I believe the original question was more similar to: I have farmland that's currently completely saturated with a variety of bountiful crops, but every day I'm finding these new seeds that seem like they would make for even better crops, and that seem like genuinely fun things to plant. However, as excited as I am about planting them, I don't have the resources—my farmland is full. How do I store the seeds in a way that will persist the level of excitement I had about them, so that when I reap one of my crops, I can pick the next idea to follow from my piles of packets?
Storing your ideas is very different from hoarding them. You can't give your ideas way if you never retain them longer than they fleet in your mind.
Storing, remembering them, and evaluating ideas is a real concern for me.