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Isaac Asimov: How to Never Run Out of Ideas Again
Never Stop Learning
Read a lot and follow your curiosity. You should never stop investing in yourself.
To have good ideas, we need to consume good ideas too. Your formal education isn’t the end. If anything, it’s the beginning.
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Never Stop Learning
Read a lot and follow your curiosity. You should never stop investing in yourself.
To have good ideas, we need to consume good ideas too. Your formal education isn’t the end. If anything, it’s the beginning.
Don’t Fight the Stuck
Getting stuck is normal. It’s our reaction to it that really matters.
Step aside, find other projects and actively ignore the thing that got you stuck. By doing this, your subconscious creates space for ideas to grow.
The Fear of Rejection
It transforms us into “perfectionists”. And that is a form of safety.
We all have ideas and we should practice not rejecting them before giving them a chance.
True Confidence
It's about pushing boundaries, failing miserably, and having the strength to stand back up again.
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Output comes from input
If you want to have a lot of good ideas, you need to expose yourself to good ideas.
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Have a capture mechanism
Creative ideas often come to you when you’re not deliberately trying to solve a problem, when your mind is relaxed.
That's why your creative process must include a system to capture ideas when you have them, so you can work on them later. The simplest mechanism is simply to have a list where you keep ideas.
Incubate your ideas
Regularly review your ideas lists. Incubation helps because just as a spontaneous connection can generate an idea, an incubated idea can spontaneously mature into a plan of action if you take care of it.
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The Physics of productivity
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Similar to the desire for the perfect day, an ideal life can mean enforcing a rigid uniformity that does more harm than good.
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Chasing A Perfect Paradise
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