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The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table.
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MORE IDEAS ON THIS
If you go back and look at all sorts of innovations throughout history, the lightbulb moment almost never really exists. It’s almost always this long process where somebody has a fragment of an idea and it sits in their head for a year, or two years, or ten years befor...
STEVEN JOHNSON
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Slow hunches
Good ideas develop slowly over time. They start out as rough ideas that have bits of greatness, but lack pieces to the puzzle. The key is to keep them alive in writing and develop them as you make sense of more things.
Commonplace books are an early example...
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This idea is similar to mind gardening. It's about articulating your thoughts and developing them as you expose yourself to new ideas. I use Evernote for developing them and Deepstash for a constant supply of ideas
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