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- johndiggity
i'm doing some research.
where do you think ideas come from? do you feel they're like energy, never starting or stopping, just changing forms. are there such a things as ideas, or is life just the manuvering and evolution of one idea?
do you write down all your different ideas?
do your ideas change after interacting and discussing them with others?
- Jnr_Madison0
I think thnking is overrated, and thinking about thinking is just not worth thinking about, I think anyway.
- Momentum0
can you imagine something that has never been imagined? l
- Jnr_Madison0
I think I just did.
Earth Docking!!!
- Momentum0
huh?
- Jnr_Madison0
Nevermind, just me being a cock again!
- Rand0
I feel that the best ideas are not really ideas, that is, products of the mechanics of thought, but received intelligence from a larger reality our brains are too puny to grasp
- backwards0
i write down all of my ideas as they hit me, but a lot of the time it takes a good chunk of time for my mind to mull them over and flesh them out into something i'm somewhat happy with. sometimes it never happens and they're just left as half-ideas in the sketchbook that is the back of my mind.
i find the process can also be accelerated by discussing the idea w/ insightfully inclined people.
- bething0
best ones hit me when i go to bed, before sleeping..dunno why :)
- Jnr_Madison0
Ha ha, me too, but I can never be arsed getting up and writing them down so the get lost in my head again.
- backwards0
always keep a notebook next to yer bed!
i love that moment of lucidity before sleep time :)
- winter0
Thinking about thinking is philosophy, dude. it is important.
Where do ideas come from has been discussed for ages. Some say it is from an outer inspiring source (e.g. Rand), some say it's a genetic survival impulse (Darwin, Sociobiology, etc), a neuro-chemical process (Damasio) and some say there are really no new ideas but rephrasing of older ones that mostly derive from the observation of natural forms.
At present, I reckon all this can be true and, on a more material level, you can start with one given idea but explore it accordingly to your own talent, inspiration, study, whatever. I think new ideas depend from explosion of thought and control, which can bring out new perspectives even of the same thing.
But I also think it's getting harder and harder. Writers, poets, painters were scarce a few decades ago. But there's a lot of people doing things today, and there's too many to learn and not so much time to explore.
- Jnr_Madison0
Well I wasn't being serious..lol.. I think using the term 'dude' is working thinking about tho!
j/k
- johndiggity0
interesting responses so far. i'm wondering if any of you use a set system to hatch and develop ideas, similar to the countless different types of brainstorming methods out there?
or are you the type that sits and waits for the idea to come to you? if this is how you work, do you ever question the source of an idea? do you view it as external or internal?
thanks for all the responses so far!
- backwards0
i find that since my ideas often come when im reading or looking at a book, that depending on the different combinations, i get different ideas. so for example if i've just read an essay about relevancy in graphic design, and then i look through an issue of Grafik, i'll be hit with a different kind of idea than if i were to flip through an issue of Dot Dot Dot after reading that same essay.
so when i'm working on an idea i like to go through a variety of different types of material to see what kinds of things i think of w/ each and w/ each combination.
- byronicles0
There are two things I'd like to say in response.
First of all, I see ideas not as an idiosyncratic expression of a persons individuality, but instead as a relationship between pre-existing forms. We (humankind) as a collective build off of the relationships and forms of the past to create new ones unique to our time. I feel like I cant take credit for some of my best work because all I did was to find a clear expression through a combination of different forms and concepts.
The second thing I'd like to say about ideas is that to find this clarity of thought and visionary state of mind, meditation has been incredibly helpful. People always talk about he great ideas they have right before falling asleep. Imagine being able to exist in that blissful state of pure consciousness at will. It totally rules.
- _salisae_0
my old boss says 'the difference btwn a genius and a hack is a full trash can'
just requires a time investment to get to a good/great idea
- winter0
i'd say the best method is to unplug your home, check mails in the nearest café (with a little browsing), pick some favorite work, reflect, and work, work, work.
for myself, i'm a ruin when it comes to managing my time. I'm loosing to much time around the web. it's pretty distracting and I think I have wasted my "exploration" excuses.
- kodap0
starting with a small conjunction of brain associatios that lead into a small concept... (idea starts here) that will only be extended and viewable widely (phisically or virtually through your desired medias) with big effort and work.. only.
cash is the key to invest. drugs might be an 'add-on' so brain associations can process information and turn to an objective concept.
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