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Don't Let Good Ideas Get Away
💡 Separate Ideation from Implementation : I’ll keep a separate idea log. When new features or project ideas pop up during implementation, I’ll jot them down for future consideration instead of immediately acting on them.
Tomas Stropus • The Art of Finishing
I make a list of ideas and then I usually just throw it out. The whole purpose is to exercise the idea muscle. I know most of the ideas are bad ideas, so there’s no sense keeping them around. If one of the ideas is good, then I will probably remember it and build on it for the next day. Sometimes it’s kind of funny, when I come across an old list o
... See moreJames Altucher • The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth
Ideas tend to get away, unless you immediately record them. Creative people always carry tools with them to capture their flashes of insight.
Write it down
"Most good material is forgotten. Write down the funniest or most interesting thing that happens to you each day. Most days will be boring, but if you write something each day, then you'll have 5 to 10 entertaining stories within a year or two. People are sitting on more funny stories than they realize because they do not have a habit
The key is to capture as many hunches as possible, and to spend as little time as possible organizing or filtering or prioritizing them. (Keeping a single, chronological file is central to the process, because it forces you to scroll through the whole list each time you want to add something new.) Just get it all down as it comes to you, and make r... See more
Steven Johnson • The Spark File
By recording all of your ideas, two things happen. First, you’ll have a record of many ideas that you would likely have forgotten otherwise, and second, you’ll free up your mind to think of other things.
Schell • The Art of Game Design: A book of lenses
Instead of organizing ideas according to where they come from, I recommend organizing them according to where they are going—specifically, the outcomes that they can help you realize.