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> Focus on the repeat offenders. The ideas that you keep coming back to. I totally buy this. Linked to it, I think the it's good to be able to entertain obviou
by refrigerator 9y ago
> Focus on the repeat offenders. The ideas that you keep coming back to.
I totally buy this. Linked to it, I think the it's good to be able to entertain obviously bad ideas for a short while. You think of an idea because of some set of underlying prompts, so even if the idea as a whole doesn't have legs, there are often insights lurking somewhere in it that you'll end up coming back to.
- drcode 9y agoI'm worried though this statement is heavily colored by "survivorship bias"- Certainly ultra-successful people are often obsessed with their ideas, but it does not logically follow that being obsessed with an idea is a good metric to base decisions on. Just look at all the people obsessed with writing the great American novel and/or next hit song. I think what is more important is to focus on ideas for which you have a comparative advantage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage) which frequently, but certainly not always, will mean there's a certain amount of obsession as a side-effect.
- pascalxus 9y agoperhaps it's not the obsession of the idea that counts but rather the obsession with the Problem you want to solve.