Idea generation

Ideas where do they come from we don’t really know, and hence they scare us. It can be broken down into three different stages copying, Transforming and combining.

1. Create Boundaries explore the subject you should do this with a mind to decrease your sens of being  lost you should try to narrow your focus or widen it but you should create parameters for you to follow, “choose your lane and stay in it”.
2. Consume everything you can on this subject eat the food sign  the song buy the T-shirt.
3. Digest the material make a map of it, fill it to the brim. It is at this stage that you put it all together into the pot. You process it in your subconscious in order to generate the idea.
4. Step four is to drop it and move on, go for a walk get out of the house and way from your topic. It is at this stage where you can free your mind and allow a new and fresh idea to enter your head.

If the idea failed its because of a flaw in stage one so to amend this you can re-evaluate, the idea itself is not necessarily the most important but the way you go about answering.