5 Honest Ways to Turn Your Bad Ideas Into Fine-Grained Lifestyle Suggestions
If you want better ideas, start with 100 bad ideas.
Bad ideas are more valuable than you think.
Here’s how:
- You can purify a bad idea into a new one.
It’s the same as baking the cake and only left with toppings. It’s easier to edit an article when you’ve written it. Similarly, it’s easier to refine an idea when you’ve had a lot of them.
Rufus Griscom, the founder of Heleo, believes that bad ideas are the pathway to discovering more ideas. According to him, our bad ideas consist of many bright opportunities that, if polished, can give us a decent chance to succeed.
Always preserve your ideas.
Some might need polishing. But who doesn’t? Thinking is a strange pipeline process. Before your brain delivers genius methods, it has to clear up the rust.
In other words, bad ideas are the brain’s way of removing the rust from your brain. But don’t worry. You don’t have to live with bad ideas forever. Below are 5 honest ways you can use to turn your bad ideas into fine-grained lifestyle suggestions.
Let’s get started:
1. Connect and combine the dots
How many times have you heard it in class?
“Remember, there’s no such thing as bad ideas. I’d love any input from your side,” and then the teacher drastically selects the kid with the exceptional answer. During that time, I felt I’d been lied to. Not all of us can generate extraordinary ideas, but thinking ensures that our ideas bear some logical weight.
Creativity doesn’t know right or wrong. In this sense, we should be grateful for ideas that enter our heads. To become someone with amazing ideas people appreciate, follow these steps:
- Step 1: write down all the answers you have in mind
- Step 2: connect the dots
The best way to make a straight answer is to create a story. Anyone can easily combine 2–3 ideas to make sense. For that, connect the dots and let the dots reveal a story.
2. Write them down like da Vinci
Da Vinci was a renaissance painter.
Due to his polyphasic sleeping routine (multiple times a day), he couldn’t concentrate more. He used to forget a lot of information. But Da Vinci found a solution.
Da Vinci used to write his thoughts into a book every time. Now when he comes up with a new idea, he has a lot of previous ideas too. He often merges 2–3 ideas together.
Your old thoughts serve as a helpful platform. This way, you can make use of your previous ideas, combine them with new ones or even use your previous statements to refine the new ideas.
The task? Keep the idea alive. Write it down.
3. Steal and experiment
As Wilson Mizner said:
If you steal from one author, it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research. Only be sure always to call it to please ‘research.’
A writer, in other words, is a legal plagiarist. Why? Because writers write a lot. There’s a 99% chance writers get into writer’s block only because the tank gets empty.
My way to combat dull ideas is to compare them with other blog ideas—for example, open Forbes.com. Now, you can view so many words and headlines. Now use similar headlines as a motivation to write new headlines.
Here’s how you can do it:
- Steal one word from the Forbes.com headline (e.g., powerful, addictive, legal)
- Now replace the same word with your headline.
Now check your scores from Headlines.coschedle.com. Use the steal and experiment method to drive motivation from other writers.
4. Sell your vision
Your ideas come inside to form your brain’s tank. An average person can produce up to 70,000 thoughts daily.
Because all of our lives are different and require different commitments, we often degrade our ideas But mind you. You can always sell your ideas by becoming:
- Content consultant
- Tiktok Growth Consultant
- Writing consultant
- Review consultant
If you have a business, charge people to get a free consulting session from you using the Calendly app. Now use this free opportunity to benefit your business.
Observe the world around you, and you’ll see many people who need someone’s shoulder to place their head — these emotional people want to connect with others.
If you’re that person, use the free consultant method to sell your vision and indirectly benefit your vision.
5. Share with others or yourself
- Communicate with your friends.
You need to share your ideas on Reddit or loudly with your neighbors. The best economical way is to share with your friends.
Now, don’t be like the typical Indian dramas where a person steals another person’s entrepreneurial business behind their back. Trust people. Find some trustworthy people in your life. Go to them, and narrate them about your vision.
According to scientific research done at the University of Maryland, your brain registers your words when you speak. Talking takes courage. And by doing so, your brain records your words.
This helps to solve cases easily. Try consulting a friend or sharing your experience to understand yourself better.
In a nutshell:
The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. Then, you get to cherry-pick the best ones.
Because without some competition and choices, picking the best ideas is boring. ( Drumroll). Keep practicing. Use these ideas to benefit yourself or sell your vision.
After all, one man’s bad idea is another man’s opportunity ~ Anastasia Shch.
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