Water - Embrace the Flow of Ideas

 “New ideas today are built on the ideas of yesterday and illuminate the way to the brilliant ideas of tomorrow.”

 

Where do great ideas come from?

It may feel like the that brilliant people in history just have something unique. Something almost magical. They seem to have just a flow of thoughts and ideas that come to them effortlessly, like a river flowing through the mountains.

For every single great idea, there is a flawed predecessor.

An idea is nothing more than an improvement on an existing way of doing something.

So, now if I ask you again, Where do great ideas come from?

It's simple to answer it. To get ideas, we must first master the current ideas, things and theories around us:

• Mastering the current ideas requires 
• learning the simple concepts that make up those ideas and 
• understanding how they all fit together to evolve into the present version. 
• Understand how they came to be.
• Once the existing concept has been mastered 
• we can proceed to modify it within its own context and 
• then apply that same idea in different settings.

Every profound innovation of the present is built on the pre-existing knowledge and tools that were created by past generations.

 

Stuck solving an issue?

• Understand the evolution of ideas
  • think about how the problem came to be
    • Think about the state of the problem a day, a month, or a year ago. 
    • Put your efforts into understanding how simple ideas evolved to connect and 
    • what elements have coalesced into this complex problem.
  • Practice this habit when you learn an advanced concept.
    • think back on how and why it was formed. 
    • This will provide you with great clarity, and 
    • it will contextualize every concept you have learned

 

Think about what comes next..

Pushing an idea to the extreme:

• Ask yourself
• "How can I make this better?
• "Don't ask questions like
• "Can this be improved?" 
• Instead, assume that you have a blind spot somewhere and 
• that there are spaces in your solution which can be tweaked further to make the solution even better.
  

To develop unique and transformative ideas, we must adopt the nature of water. 

"You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can flow, or it can crush. Be water, my friend."

Know this:

• whatever advances we have made on an idea is the new starting point. 
• This version will act as a launchpad for even better solutions

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