- The best way to get great ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.
- Create ideas that are 15 minutes ahead of their time…not light years ahead.
- Always look for a second right answer.
- If at first you don’t succeed, take a break.
- Write down your ideas before you forget them.
- If everyone says you are wrong, you’re one step ahead. If everyone laughs at you, you’re two steps ahead.
- The answer to your problem “pre-exists.” You need to ask the right question to reveal the answer.
- When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer.
- Never solve a problem from its original perspective.
- Visualize your problem as solved before solving it.
[Disclosure: I received this via email and I have no idea who the original source is determined the original source to be: Simonton, D. K. (1988) Scientific genius: A psychology of science. New York: Cambridge University Press. Thanks Google. ]
Comment Idea: Do you have any rules of your own, that you’d like to share – let me know in the comments and I’ll add it to the list above.
#5 is my current obsession, some of my notes are public, some are written on serviettes / napkins, some are scribbled by the light of cellphone at 3 am while standing in my birthday suit cursing pens for their inability to defy gravity and write against a wall...
The optimist in me wants to believe that #6 is true
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