Source: lessaccounting.com
Best selling author, Seth Godin in a podcast interview in the Tim Feriss Show recently was asked to give suggestions about getting good ideas. He said that it simply does not happen to come at a great idea regularly, but you keep writing about a lot of ideas on a consistent basis and then, after a lot of bad ideas have been written down, you then are able to come across to a good idea. He mentioned a time when he and one of his friend used to generate hundred of business ideas on a weekly meeting. This practice was done as they felt it as a helpful strategy for their future intended careers.
Another way of getting ideas is by asking different questions based on the nature of the problem that you are trying to solve. Asking the right questions leads to consider different alternatives which might lead to ideas which might be part of a small set of answers that one can come up with.
It is necessary to have ideas for new work projects, solving problems, or for business models. When you are able to come up with a lot of ideas at different times, you can collect them on a system to which you can refer later on. Despite having the opportunity to use those old and seemingly bad ideas at the time when they were generated, you can also develop the muscle of getting new ideas as well. Developing the habit of getting new ideas is then turned into a powerful skill that might serve you at times when you need to solve problems.
As I have mentioned in a blog post in the past, our opinion when experiencing something and reflecting about it after a period of time might contradict each other. We might feel that a certain idea is terrible, but we might completely change our opinion only after a few moments. The pivotal thing that you must do is not stop at the very least write down your ideas. It might be that your definition of good ideas might change as time passes by and thus, as you have collected a lot of ideas on a consistent basis, you might then be able to use the old ones as well.
