Of ideas and ideation...anybody, any ideas??
An idea is an idea - nothing less; nothing more. Truly speaking ; ideas should have no patents on them. They can erupt anytime anywhere. So how does it matter who thinks of an idea first? There is no easy reckoner possible of them. Here, in the marketplace of ideas an"original" only means zilch for an idea to grow organically, something's got to give - a seminal exchange( don't ask me why I need to rule out exchange of body fluids here but that's for another day), a dialogue perhaps, or a one-on-one for that vague semblance of an idea to morph into something bigger yet better. Still, why is it that some great ideas fail to take off while other lesser ones do not? What sense do we have if any, of "the idea" behind an idea that is either going to make or break it?
For the most part some of the more groundbreaking of ideas are simple, and as a rule of thumb never any complex spin-offs of the received wisdom at the time. I do not know about you but I certainly buy into this whole thing of the English and the Scots being the better innovators and the Japanese and the Americans ; the better end-users.
Any takes on what should be an ideal setting for incubation of ideas and for taking them from the bench to the bedside?!
And last but not the least, what is the idea behind floating of ideas as some kind of "commodities" that need protection through trade barriers and legislation?
If indeed you have ideas on this, you know where to ideate!
posted by Men Who Do Cleavages at 8:17 pm
4 Comments:
Ideas don't just saunter around your head. You need to give them time - maintaining proper ambient temperature for them to grow and indeed, to thrive for the last thing you want to happen is to shut the stable door after the horse has bolted. Between the conception and the execution lies the true worth of an idea.And I can tell you a lot can happen between the copulation and delivery.
You have to give it some time to nurture good ideas from the baseline. Not all of us are equally capable of ideating cracker ideas all the time and the trick I think lies in cherry picking the sort most likely to come up with them.
Turning on the pressure while it may help deliver the goods in the short to the medium term there often is an"ideas burnout" in the long term. So allowing some leeway and time for oven fresh ideas to gestate is the only smart thing to do. Having said that there is no sure-as hell way of coming up with bright new ideas all the time every time.
Lol hey being in the ideas game myself...it's a horrid bummer when the client steals your idea and well outsources it to a Bangaladeshi sweat shop or something to that effect. There is no way in hell one can have any sort of control over this rot and that's the way it is going to stay. In advertising, agencies have started demanding adequate compensation at the pitch stage - the idea guys fight back! An idea is really no flash in the pan, it takes ages of careful simmering:) All the best and btw hv you read THE UNCONSOLED and has Kazuo come out with anything after that? I think you will like THE GLASS PALACE:)
I am going to put them both on my reading list. Just finished with an Ian McEwan; writes brilliantly but not half as arresting as Ishiguro.
Any pointers on books by Martin Amis? You see, I am still an Amis virgin.
On ideas, I think synergy is everything : one good ideator(if there is such a thing as that) :) begets another good ideator. But for this to happen, I guess, the student has to be ready for the teacher to appear.
Sorry, R : As far as I know, 'Never Let Me Go' was the last by Ishiguro.
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