What’s behind a big idea?
How do people have them?
Where do they come from? In what conditions do they spring to life?
When did someone first think, ‘ooh, that pig looks tasty, I’ll eat it!’, spawning thousands of years of meat-eating, from hog roasts to sausage rolls?
The answer is: no one knows! ‘A thought comes when it wills, not when I will it,’ said saome bloke called Nietzsche (a philosopher whose big idea was that God is dead).
Like a marble rattling around in your head, sometimes you know an idea is there but you don’t know how to get it out. Sometimes they hit you like a wet kipper round the face.
A beginner's guide
The big idea!
'New ideas pass through three periods:
1) It can't be done.
2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing.
3) I knew it was a good idea all along.’ Arthur C. Clarke.
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Check out the links below all about having ideas:
Use it or lose it - a rough guide to having ideas
Succeed by failing
Make Your Mark with A Grand Idea
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