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i think new ideas come from being naive and possessing the "no-mind" or a childlike sense of wonder. the older i get, the less plastic my brain is and the more

i think new ideas come from being naive and possessing the "no-mind" or a childlike sense of wonder. the older i get, the less plastic my brain is and the more depression and other issues start to seep in, get in the way, overcomplicate shit. to be completely free, uninhibited, released from guilt and predjudice. to just think, play, laugh, fart, and yawn. boring days spent looking out the window wondering how crows fart, or what makes zebras sassy. the only limit is our own adult psychosis. we are prisoners of our own minds, locked and shackled by constructs of our own design. too focused on the failures of the past and anxieties of the present to take a moment and b-r-e-a-t-h-e. like who fucking cares about businesses and startups and shit. saas my ass. when you actually stop trying, give up, and stop caring, and truly let go (like in the movie frozen) you can actually go in and through and back out the other side. just learn to get out the way of yourself. that's what im working on, but it's really hard. you think you're supposed to be there and generate brilliance 24/7 but it's not possible. go outside and find a patch of earth where things are growing. get really close to the ground and start looking at it real hard. there's honestly so much stuff there, it's wild. like who knew? wow thats nuts. acorns, rocks and shit. touch the dirt and rub it on your face. mushrooms are literally everywhere. the water in my body was once in a bowl of rice that your great grandma ate at becky's 27th birthday party. just give up just give up stop caring be free

sargstuff 4y ago
or be around long enough that have time/resources to find a soluion to what have wanted a soluion to which noone else seems to want to provide. edit: needs of the many refinements out weight the needs of the few refinements
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Existenceblinks 4y ago
I'm locked in my own personality trap. I don't understand why people buy shit and my toxic also think they are dumb sheep of some made up social values. And I can't change myself to get out of my trap. I always think what I'm going to sell to people has to be really good .. but I just realize it's about a lot of bullshit going on on marketing and sales and network effect vs pure functionality.
- gizmo 4y ago
  You don't have to cynically exploit your customers just because that's what other businesses do. If you can make an excellent product that solves a real problem and charge a reasonable price for it you'll likely do pretty well. Sure, other people will become immensely successful by cheating or by gaming the system in some way. But what difference does that make? Just do your own thing.
  - Existenceblinks 4y ago
    > gaming the system I think this is the point. Because the game is actually the psychology around why people buy shit. I can't make myself do that. For example. I can't ride the wave of hype because I don't believe its value is real or sustainable. Well a lot of excuse, right, that's why it's my trap.
    - sometimeshuman 4y ago
      > I can't make myself do that. Then don't. Or maybe you subconsciously don't want to do the work or have no good ideas. That's OK. But I can't see how this cynical attitude serves you otherwise. As a reminder YC's mantra is "build something people want". There are plenty of now wealthy people on this forum that did that. Some never even had to do marketing because customers were so happy.
      - Existenceblinks 4y ago
        I don't get why they were so happy with avatar generator for example. I actually understand it's sort of fun. But $30 for that is a nope to me. This is why my mindset limits my idea space. I need to get out of that.
- sargstuff 4y ago
  long as it's legal/legitimate, does it really matter if can make enough $$$ to earn a living? nerf was last minute class project.
userabchn 4y ago
We like to believe that the problem is just "our own adult psychosis", but I spend my days around many people over quite a range of ages (including elderly) and it is very obvious to me that cognitive abilities decline in the way shown in the charts you have probably seen (or, it feels to me, even more dramatically) and that it is apparent at an earlier age that we would like to think. Old people lose the ability to infer - if they know two Johns and I say something about one of them (just referred to as "John"), they will be confused even though it should be easy to infer which I meant. That might not be a surprise, but from my experience the same effect can be traced back linearly to much earlier ages, to those mature students in your university class, who were probably only 40, and who continually caused us to roll our eyes by asking questions with obvious answers - even at that age they had lost some of the ability we had to infer the answers from what we had already been taught. Such abilities are useful when coming up with ideas for new products, so I have no doubt that the likelihood of doing it successfully declines rapidly with age.
- adversaryIdiot 4y ago
  I thought your mental faculties peak in their abilities in your 40's? I don't have a specific reference but if you google it, you should find what I mean.
  - dragonwriter 4y ago
    > I thought your mental faculties peak in their abilities in your 40's different abilities at different ages, on average, but IIRC, some as early as late teens, some as late as the 40s. EDIT: Actually, some as late as 50+. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/when-does-intelligence-peak/ https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/when-do...
- zachthewf 4y ago
  The example from University is not a good one. There are bright and not-so-bright young people too, but older people typically have fewer misgivings about asking "dumb" questions that may have obvious answers.
somethingreen 4y ago
Name 3 things you own or use that were invented (even at conceptual level) by a child.
- sargstuff 4y ago
  [1] has more researched 10 list. https://inventionland.com/blog/ten-kid-inventors-that-changed-our-lives/ https://inventionland.com/blog/ten-kid-inventors-that-change...
  - somethingreen 4y ago
    The fact that one needs to google the list and even then may still fail to answer is kind of the point. The struggle to give an answer is the actual answer. This myth that children's ideas are somehow more valuable that adult's is nonsense. If this was true, businesses would organize and act on it. Parents would be hired to bring children into brainstorming sessions. Filled idea diaries would be sold and bought in bulk. Sponsored kindergarten and school networks would be established to gain access. Children hackathons with prizes would be held every day of the week. Video games would be designed to siphon ideas. None of this happens. Because the reality is: children are great, their ideas are useless, most beautiful genius things in your life weren't invented and designed by a child or a nameless enlightened being in a tropical bungalow, but by a perfectly boring adult at their desk in their work time.
    - sargstuff 4y ago
      somethinggreen wrote: "... This myth that children's ideas are somehow more valuable that adult's is nonsense. ..." And who best motiates the parents to do something / spend $$ / go in a given direction? aka commercial supplying context(s) of idea(s) to child somethinggreen wrote: "... Because the reality is: children are great, their ideas are useless, ..." Only until that child understands what context to put that idea(s) in to make the idea(s) usable and/or what to do / to learn to be able to use the idea in context. Adults just have a larger context node pool to draw from.
- acuozzo 4y ago
toss1 4y ago
>>wow thats nuts. acorns, rocks and shit. touch the dirt and rub it on your face. mushrooms are literally everywhere. If you want to really blow your mind, start looking into soil biology. Entire ecosystems of bacteria, fungi, multicellular creatures, plants, minerals, water.... And ALL OF IT IS CRITICAL TO LIFE. People just think "oh, it's just dirt", and move on, when nothing could be further from reality
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sargstuff 4y ago

or be around long enough that have time/resources to find a soluion to what have wanted a soluion to which noone else seems to want to provide. edit: needs of the many refinements out weight the needs of the few refinements

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Existenceblinks 4y ago

I'm locked in my own personality trap. I don't understand why people buy shit and my toxic also think they are dumb sheep of some made up social values. And I can't change myself to get out of my trap. I always think what I'm going to sell to people has to be really good .. but I just realize it's about a lot of bullshit going on on marketing and sales and network effect vs pure functionality.

gizmo 4y ago
You don't have to cynically exploit your customers just because that's what other businesses do. If you can make an excellent product that solves a real problem and charge a reasonable price for it you'll likely do pretty well. Sure, other people will become immensely successful by cheating or by gaming the system in some way. But what difference does that make? Just do your own thing.
- Existenceblinks 4y ago
  > gaming the system I think this is the point. Because the game is actually the psychology around why people buy shit. I can't make myself do that. For example. I can't ride the wave of hype because I don't believe its value is real or sustainable. Well a lot of excuse, right, that's why it's my trap.
  - sometimeshuman 4y ago
    > I can't make myself do that. Then don't. Or maybe you subconsciously don't want to do the work or have no good ideas. That's OK. But I can't see how this cynical attitude serves you otherwise. As a reminder YC's mantra is "build something people want". There are plenty of now wealthy people on this forum that did that. Some never even had to do marketing because customers were so happy.
    - Existenceblinks 4y ago
      I don't get why they were so happy with avatar generator for example. I actually understand it's sort of fun. But $30 for that is a nope to me. This is why my mindset limits my idea space. I need to get out of that.
sargstuff 4y ago
long as it's legal/legitimate, does it really matter if can make enough $$$ to earn a living? nerf was last minute class project.

userabchn 4y ago

We like to believe that the problem is just "our own adult psychosis", but I spend my days around many people over quite a range of ages (including elderly) and it is very obvious to me that cognitive abilities decline in the way shown in the charts you have probably seen (or, it feels to me, even more dramatically) and that it is apparent at an earlier age that we would like to think. Old people lose the ability to infer - if they know two Johns and I say something about one of them (just referred to as "John"), they will be confused even though it should be easy to infer which I meant. That might not be a surprise, but from my experience the same effect can be traced back linearly to much earlier ages, to those mature students in your university class, who were probably only 40, and who continually caused us to roll our eyes by asking questions with obvious answers - even at that age they had lost some of the ability we had to infer the answers from what we had already been taught. Such abilities are useful when coming up with ideas for new products, so I have no doubt that the likelihood of doing it successfully declines rapidly with age.

adversaryIdiot 4y ago
I thought your mental faculties peak in their abilities in your 40's? I don't have a specific reference but if you google it, you should find what I mean.
- dragonwriter 4y ago
  > I thought your mental faculties peak in their abilities in your 40's different abilities at different ages, on average, but IIRC, some as early as late teens, some as late as the 40s. EDIT: Actually, some as late as 50+. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/when-does-intelligence-peak/ https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/when-do...
zachthewf 4y ago
The example from University is not a good one. There are bright and not-so-bright young people too, but older people typically have fewer misgivings about asking "dumb" questions that may have obvious answers.

somethingreen 4y ago

Name 3 things you own or use that were invented (even at conceptual level) by a child.

sargstuff 4y ago
[1] has more researched 10 list. https://inventionland.com/blog/ten-kid-inventors-that-changed-our-lives/ https://inventionland.com/blog/ten-kid-inventors-that-change...
- somethingreen 4y ago
  The fact that one needs to google the list and even then may still fail to answer is kind of the point. The struggle to give an answer is the actual answer. This myth that children's ideas are somehow more valuable that adult's is nonsense. If this was true, businesses would organize and act on it. Parents would be hired to bring children into brainstorming sessions. Filled idea diaries would be sold and bought in bulk. Sponsored kindergarten and school networks would be established to gain access. Children hackathons with prizes would be held every day of the week. Video games would be designed to siphon ideas. None of this happens. Because the reality is: children are great, their ideas are useless, most beautiful genius things in your life weren't invented and designed by a child or a nameless enlightened being in a tropical bungalow, but by a perfectly boring adult at their desk in their work time.
  - sargstuff 4y ago
    somethinggreen wrote: "... This myth that children's ideas are somehow more valuable that adult's is nonsense. ..." And who best motiates the parents to do something / spend $$ / go in a given direction? aka commercial supplying context(s) of idea(s) to child somethinggreen wrote: "... Because the reality is: children are great, their ideas are useless, ..." Only until that child understands what context to put that idea(s) in to make the idea(s) usable and/or what to do / to learn to be able to use the idea in context. Adults just have a larger context node pool to draw from.
acuozzo 4y ago

toss1 4y ago

>>wow thats nuts. acorns, rocks and shit. touch the dirt and rub it on your face. mushrooms are literally everywhere. If you want to really blow your mind, start looking into soil biology. Entire ecosystems of bacteria, fungi, multicellular creatures, plants, minerals, water.... And ALL OF IT IS CRITICAL TO LIFE. People just think "oh, it's just dirt", and move on, when nothing could be further from reality

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