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>Even the most brilliant idea will have been had by countless people It wasn't very brilliant then, was it?
by pcrh 13y ago
>Even the most brilliant idea will have been had by countless people
It wasn't very brilliant then, was it?
- valarauca1 13y agoMost ideas aren't that brilliant. If it occurred to you, it likely occurred to somebody else. Ideas are a product of your environment. While we pretend to be unique a lot of what we do is pretty common to dozens, if not hundreds, or thousands of people. Even ideas as earth shaking and complex as Infinitesimal Calculus and Quantum Mechanics were developed in parallel initial by people with little to no communication between each other.
- pcrh 13y agoThat's the point, isn't it? Truly good ideas are rare.
- a-priori 13y agoWe're treading dangerously close to "no true Scotsman" territory here.
- valarauca1 13y agoNo True Scotsman's ideas are unique. /sarcasm
- leoc 13y agoOnly in that some intrinsically good ideas are fairly obvious. Others are not.
- pcrh 13y ago(a-priori: for some reason I can't reply directly to you) It's not quite a "no true Scotsman" since great ideas do happen and happen fairly often, in the grand scheme of things (there are over 100 Nobel prize nominees every year). The oft-repeated argument about ideas versus execution is that ideas are a dime a dozen, which is true, but most of them are not really all that great or original. The same can be said for any resource.
- smooj 13y agoBroad elevator-pitch-level ideas may well be of little value, but specific ideas about strategy for a given organization at a given time are hugely valuable. There is a significant difference betwen the ideas person who just spouts out 'x for y' type product ideas, and the ideas person who is always coming up more effective processes for getting work done and achieving goals.
- mattlutze 13y agoEven those specific ideas have value only speculatively; specific case hypotheses are more easily testable, but they only have value, only provide benefit, when results of execution are realized.
- lttlrck 13y agobrilliant != unique