Comments on: Your Guide to Get Spinning in the Idea Tornado http://thinksimplenow.com/creativity/your-guide-to-get-spinning-in-the-idea-tornado/ Creativity, Clarity & Happiness Tue, 15 May 2012 16:11:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Oleg Mokhov http://thinksimplenow.com/creativity/your-guide-to-get-spinning-in-the-idea-tornado/comment-page-1/#comment-67530 Oleg Mokhov Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:20:24 +0000 http://thinksimplenow.com/creativity/your-guide-to-get-spinning-in-the-idea-tornado/#comment-67530 <i>"Invention is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration." -Thomas Edison</i> Hey Tina, <strong>Just do it</strong>. Choose one thing that you need to accomplish your goal and just start doing it. Don't worry about details - they won't matter much anyway, especially in the beginning. Just do it. Simply starting breaks a huge psychological barrier. We're often daunted by the project before doing it, over-thinking and planning but not actually taking action. But once we start, we subconsciously gain momentum. It's not as big a deal to keep going, and ideas will start flowing easily when in the moment of creation. Awesome list of strategies to get ideas spinning. It's like a grab-bag of tactics to solve any creative blocks imaginable. "Stuck? Doing this but it's not working? Try this method instead." Thank you for the great list, Oleg “Invention is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration.” -Thomas Edison

Hey Tina,

Just do it.

Choose one thing that you need to accomplish your goal and just start doing it. Don’t worry about details – they won’t matter much anyway, especially in the beginning. Just do it.

Simply starting breaks a huge psychological barrier. We’re often daunted by the project before doing it, over-thinking and planning but not actually taking action. But once we start, we subconsciously gain momentum. It’s not as big a deal to keep going, and ideas will start flowing easily when in the moment of creation.

Awesome list of strategies to get ideas spinning. It’s like a grab-bag of tactics to solve any creative blocks imaginable. “Stuck? Doing this but it’s not working? Try this method instead.”

Thank you for the great list,
Oleg

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]]> By: jd http://thinksimplenow.com/creativity/your-guide-to-get-spinning-in-the-idea-tornado/comment-page-1/#comment-3917 jd Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:06:16 +0000 http://thinksimplenow.com/creativity/your-guide-to-get-spinning-in-the-idea-tornado/#comment-3917 Tina - I think two things have helped me uncork possibilities: 1. Using a collection pool for thoughts. Simply having a place to dump my thoughts in a place where I can consistently find them has dramatically increased my idea throughput. 2. Asking resourceful questions. For example, asking myself -- "if I could solve this, what would it look like? ... or, What would MacGyver do? ... etc" Edison used a personal invention quota to keep the creative juices flowing (http://thebookshare.blogspot.com/2008/01/personal-invention-quotas.html) ... I guess you get what you measure or focus on. Tina – I think two things have helped me uncork possibilities:
1. Using a collection pool for thoughts. Simply having a place to dump my thoughts in a place where I can consistently find them has dramatically increased my idea throughput.
2. Asking resourceful questions. For example, asking myself — “if I could solve this, what would it look like? … or, What would MacGyver do? … etc”

Edison used a personal invention quota to keep the creative juices flowing (http://thebookshare.blogspot.com/2008/01/personal-invention-quotas.html) … I guess you get what you measure or focus on.

]]> By: JEMi http://thinksimplenow.com/creativity/your-guide-to-get-spinning-in-the-idea-tornado/comment-page-1/#comment-2277 JEMi Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:18:06 +0000 http://thinksimplenow.com/creativity/your-guide-to-get-spinning-in-the-idea-tornado/#comment-2277 I'm going to bookmark this since I'm brainstorming so often lately for my site :) I find this posting very useful. :) thanks T! I’m going to bookmark this since I’m brainstorming so often lately for my site :)

I find this posting very useful. :) thanks T!

]]> By: Tarek Demiati http://thinksimplenow.com/creativity/your-guide-to-get-spinning-in-the-idea-tornado/comment-page-1/#comment-1954 Tarek Demiati Sun, 23 Dec 2007 22:33:12 +0000 http://thinksimplenow.com/creativity/your-guide-to-get-spinning-in-the-idea-tornado/#comment-1954 A powerfull strategy is also to divide & conquer, often when you analyze a complex problem it does only seems manageable only after you've broken it into smaller little problems that are much easier to handle than when trying to boil the ocean at once. Breaking big problems into a set of small problems, help me manage the complexity. A powerfull strategy is also to divide & conquer,
often when you analyze a complex problem it does only seems manageable only after you’ve broken it into smaller little problems that are much easier to handle than when trying to boil the ocean at once.

Breaking big problems into a set of small problems, help me manage the complexity.

]]> By: Lifehack Digest for December 18 - lifehack.org http://thinksimplenow.com/creativity/your-guide-to-get-spinning-in-the-idea-tornado/comment-page-1/#comment-1810 Lifehack Digest for December 18 - lifehack.org Wed, 19 Dec 2007 07:59:48 +0000 http://thinksimplenow.com/creativity/your-guide-to-get-spinning-in-the-idea-tornado/#comment-1810 [...] Your Guide to Get Spinning in the Idea TornadoThink Simple Now offers a thorough set of instructions for brainstorming.Tags: brainstorming idea thinking creativity digg_url = 'http://www.lifehack.org/articles/resource/lifehack-digest-for-december-18.html'; ( function() { var ds=typeof digg_skin=='string'?digg_skin:''; var h=80; var w=52; if(ds=='compact') { h=18; w=120; } var u=typeof digg_url=='string'?digg_url:(typeof DIGG_URL=='string'?DIGG_URL:window.location.href); document.write(""); } )() Author: Lifehack Editors Posted: Wednesday, December 19th, 2007 at 4:00 am Tags: links Bookmark or Share this with a friend! [...] [...] Your Guide to Get Spinning in the Idea TornadoThink Simple Now offers a thorough set of instructions for brainstorming.Tags: brainstorming idea thinking creativity digg_url = ‘http://www.lifehack.org/articles/resource/lifehack-digest-for-december-18.html’; ( function() { var ds=typeof digg_skin==’string’?digg_skin:”; var h=80; var w=52; if(ds==’compact’) { h=18; w=120; } var u=typeof digg_url==’string’?digg_url:(typeof DIGG_URL==’string’?DIGG_URL:window.location.href); document.write(“”); } )() Author: Lifehack Editors Posted: Wednesday, December 19th, 2007 at 4:00 am Tags: links Bookmark or Share this with a friend! [...]

]]> By: Bill Duggan http://thinksimplenow.com/creativity/your-guide-to-get-spinning-in-the-idea-tornado/comment-page-1/#comment-1783 Bill Duggan Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:56:06 +0000 http://thinksimplenow.com/creativity/your-guide-to-get-spinning-in-the-idea-tornado/#comment-1783 This view of brainstorming is 10% right and 90% wrong. The problem is, the 90% interferes with the 10%. The idea that there are two sides of the brain, and you have to turn off one and turn the other on to get creative ideas, was overturned in the late 90s by neuroscience. Here's the 10% that's right: build on existing ideas, relaxed environment. The worst of the 90% that's wrong: define the result, be playful, set a time limit, don't evaluate... This view of brainstorming is 10% right and 90% wrong. The problem is, the 90% interferes with the 10%.
The idea that there are two sides of the brain, and you have to turn off one and turn the other on to get creative ideas, was overturned in the late 90s by neuroscience.
Here’s the 10% that’s right: build on existing ideas, relaxed environment.
The worst of the 90% that’s wrong: define the result, be playful, set a time limit, don’t evaluate…

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