Being prolific is underrated for producing good ideas
Summary
- Produce lots of ideas in order to have good ideas
Details
- Many of the ideas will be rubbish. throw them out.
- Try to produce ideas that are very different, not small iterations
- test and discard
References
Quotes
Being prolific is underrated. The more different things you try, the greater the chance of discovering something new. Understand, though, that trying lots of things will mean trying lots of things that don't work. You can't have a lot of good ideas without also having a lot of bad ones.
Related
- Consider ideas that are opposed to each other
- For an idea which, at first does not seem absurd there is no hope - Albert Einstein
- Test all your ideas
- It is only ideas gained from walking that have any worth. - Friedrich Nietzsche
- Creativity is labor intensive - John Adams
- Creativity is a fundamental quality of being human
- [[Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas - Donatella Versace}}