idea generation
If 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.
Quite often the person who comes to something completely fresh will have in fact the benefit of ignorance in a way. They don’t have the baggage of thinking they know the right way to do it.
– Rory Sutherland
Find the best ingredients possible to ferment into great ideas, and aggressively prune everything you don’t want your brain to process. Give your brain the boredom and output time it needs to figure out what to do with that information. Don’t keep opening the jar and packing more into it. Finally, be patient with the process. The more you can... See more
Nat Eliason • The Art of Fermenting Great Ideas The Art of Fermenting Great Ideas
Greatness Without Goals
joincolossus.comWhatever you pay attention to is being fermented by your brain…Every tweet you read, every newspaper you glance at, every show you watch, every email you skim, it’s all feeding your subconscious things to process. And whatever it’s fed, it will ferment into ideas and reactions. So if you want to come up with better ideas, you must get extremely... See more
Nat Eliason • The Art of Fermenting Great Ideas The Art of Fermenting Great Ideas
The Idea compass: A good tool to use for idea generation, reading comprehension, and note-taking
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