[[Notes]] - Topics: [[Creativity]], [[Problem-solving]] - People: [[Richard St. John]] - Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtn31hh6kU4 --- ## Summary - [[Many great ideas come when people do surprisingly simple things]]. - [[Ideas are solutions to everyday problems]]. - Listen and look around for problems and solutions. - [[To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.]] - Always write down your ideas. [[Leave breadcrumbs for yourself]]. - [[Always be yourself]]. Do really simple things, and you can have super ideas worth sharing. ## Notes ### Ideas - Anyone can have super ideas. - [[Many great ideas come when people do surprisingly simple things]]. [[Creativity is just connecting things]]. Connections clarify things. When things are clarified, things are simple. - [[Always be yourself]]. Do really simple things, and you can have super ideas worth sharing. ### 1. Problem - [[Ideas are solutions to everyday problems]]. - Sometimes, solving an inconvenience for yourself, can greatly benefit others if both the problem and solution resonate wide enough. - To [[Scratch your own itch]]. - Ideas are an answers, a callbacks, to a question that you have yet to understand. ### 2. Listen - [[Ears are WiFi for ideas]]. - You don't always have to be the one with the question. Sometimes, you can be the one with the answer to someone else's question. ### 3. Look around - [[Eye Q often wins over IQ]]. - In addition to paying attention with your ears, you must also pay attention with your eyes. - Observe. Pay attention. Notice the details. The details may reveal the answers to the questions you have, or even to the questions you did not know you had. - [[To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.]] - [[I always believe my eyes rather than anything else]]. ### 4. Write down ideas - [[Write down your ideas. Otherwise, they'll fly away, never to return.]] - [[When a really great dream shows up, grab it!]]