The problem with ideas is that they do not relent. When someone comes up with an idea, lets just use the most common example, and idea with which one could make money. What happens is that the person who has the idea, naturally thinks its great, they have a great deal of enthusiasm. However, and this is a big however, in most cases the idea simply can not be put into effect alone, without someone else’s help or resources. Therein lies the rub!
Sales, the transfer of enthusiasm. The problem is that no one else is likely to share the same enthusiasm as the one who came up with the idea. Instead, you will get some version of what has commonly become known as the person who plays the role of devils advocate. This person will bring up no less than about dozen problems or issues which are significant to why the idea can not succeed. In some cases the person playing the role of devils advocate will know what he is talking, and in many cases, the critic will simply be shooting down the idea, because that is just what people do.
Now enter several classic spoilers, which the typical naysayer will have readily available. These spoilers will generally not even require any sort of prior knowledge of understanding of the idea which the dreamer has come up with. Perhaps the simplest and most obvious of these, actually gives a great deal of credit to the entire human race:
If the idea was any good, someone would have already thought of it.
The objection seemingly has some substance however if anyone really believed that this single idea is true, then one would have to simply wonder how did people ever come up with: Television, digital photography, and helicopters. The simple answer is sure, when the first guy said I am going to build a machine that flies, the answer from the naysayer of the day would have been, “If man were meant to fly, he would have wings.
Which brings me back to a central idea I have been working with for sometime now. I recently created a new page on Facebook called Seed. The seed concept is really very clever, however I simply can not say that it was my invention. I did have a a particularly gifted professor who explained the concept of automatic writing as follows :
When you first contemplate what you want to write about you allow your mind to go blank, the first idea that pops into your mind is the kernel or seed. Then you hand is a very slow scribe for the mind. Automatic writing is: The process by which you try to capture all the thoughts that develop issue forth from your mind that relate to that original thought.
Seed theory:The idea by which anything new be it a business, piece of artwork, elaborate speech, explanation or lesson plan, issues forth from ones owns mind, and manifests itself in the physical world, much in the same way as a seed landing in the soil becomes activated, sends out roots, and grows into a plant.
As far as I know, the above stated theory is my own.
Stephen C. (Aharon Moshe) Sanders
March 11, 2010 12:06AM Eastern Standard Time
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