Ready? Go. A marshmallow-shaped building with an entrance only for pigeons on the Moon might sound like a good idea for a doctoral thesis. I am sure that nobody took their creative animal for a ride into this unexplored territory. Walking on our heads while taking mirror selfies underwater to impress and attract the opposite sex can be a pretty fresh attitude of the contemporary dating scene. To say the least. A hair salon for your crouching tigers and hidden dragons in Zhangjiajie during the spring season might be an innovative business idea, to say the least. But do we need such things and most importantly, will it solve some sort of problem or bring value to anybody? For sure we will be one-of-a-kind, true mavericks of society with such ideas. But what is the meaning of working on such concepts?
People, especially the ones who preach themselves to be artistic souls love to flex their originality muscles. They often think that this quality alone opens up the gate to the land of geniuses for them. Once you figure out this brilliant idea that was never done before, you are set! This cannot be further from the truth. Ideas are great, but ideas alone are worthless. I deeply believe that everybody should forget this notion of being all special and original and focus on other things instead. This will not only lead to them being more grounded in reality and detached from illusions but will lead them towards a much more fulfilling path and let me tell you why. But first…
Coming up with an idea is what anyone can do. People have ideas all the time. They pop up naturally. But they don’t mean shit unless you do the work and see how it applies within certain constraints of the given context. The more time and ego you put into the originality of the idea, the more you deceive yourself from it actually being impactful and influential on the world. When someone comes up with a mediocre idea and tests it right away, gets the feedback and develops it further they put themselves into a much better spot to make that thing work. And that is why you see mediocre ideas and mediocre people achieve things and there are so many talented and original people we have never heard of.
Some people do not care about ideas that much. They focus on quality, performance, process and stats instead. These folks are grounded in the reality of life and if something goes off, they immediately see the flaws of their actions in real time. After this, they can adjust and draw their own conclusion. The learning curve for them develops at a much faster pace and after some time they put themselves in a spot of creating something that can be valuable, applied and functioning within the given context of their human endeavour.
Since every one of your ideas is meant to work and be applied, the faster you drop the notion of being all original and special and start working on the quality and performance instead, the sooner your work will become good, maybe even excellent, groundbreaking and phenomenal. Nothing shows up out of the blue and becomes an 8th wonder of the world instantly. And the more shity ideas you will produce, the better chance of birthing a really brilliant one you have.
Perhaps you meant a 9th wonder of the world? The 8th wonder is compound interest haha :)
This is good. Thank you. It reminds me of so many friends who were talented singers or poets but didn’t have any drive to share their work. It drove me bonkers!😂 Also reminds me of a book The Originals (the title is irony!) where the author found the most creative geniuses’ work was never the thing they thought would be huge, but something that happened when they just kept going.