idea generation
2 // Having good ideas
open.spotify.comIf you want great ideas, you must remove all the bad ingredients. Outrage, information you don’t care about or can’t act on, trivia, fluff. Obviously, you should keep some fun in your life.
Nat Eliason • The Art of Fermenting Great Ideas The Art of Fermenting Great Ideas
If you want to increase the quality of your work – your output – you must increase the level of your inputs. Your input is knowledge.
Inclining the Mind Toward “Sudden Illumination”: French Polymath Henri Poincaré on How Creativity Works
Maria Popovathemarginalian.org
Our ideas appear primarily in one situation: when little else is occupying our thoughts…Good ideas require boredom. If you constantly ingest new information, the existing information can never be digested.
Nat Eliason • The Art of Fermenting Great Ideas The Art of Fermenting Great Ideas
What humans do best is see information in our environment, synthesize it, and connect it with related ideas in novel ways. But it’s much harder for us to come up with something out of nothing. It helps a lot to have something to react to.