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by ChrisNorstrom 5226 days ago
They come to me every few days. Ideas for inventions, ideas for startups, ideas for websites, ideas for designs. It's too much.

As soon as I start working on one, another comes to me. So it's kind of like torture. Ideas just keep coming and I find it hard to settle down and commit myself to one. I wish I had a whole bunch of money and just paid people to make them all. But it doesn't work that way.

I think it's my negativity and critisism. When I see something that's already been made, I look for its flaw. I almost always find something wrong or imperfect with it. So then I ask myself why it feels wrong, how it can be made better or different, and from that another idea and invention is born. Sometimes so different from its origin that it becomes a whole new different product or service. I mix and match different little fixes together and eventually they create a whole new product.

Other times, idea formation is just subconscious. It happens without thinking. It cooks in the back of your mind and when it's done it gets pushed towards your consciousness and you realize you have a "good idea". Where it came from, you don't know.

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As soon as I start working on one, another comes to me. So it's kind of like torture. Ideas just keep coming and I find it hard to settle down and commit myself to one. I wish I had a whole bunch of money and just paid people to make them all. But it doesn't work that way.

I can relate to that. I am having more than a dozen very good ideas(at least I think so). They keep coming and try to take my focus away from my current project.

what are some of those ideas u can share?
I really identify with those first two paragraphs. Leaves me with a huge list of ideas and an incredulous reaction when someone talks about not being able to come up with an idea. I only wish I had just one on which to concentrate.