Global Ecovillage Network/Solution Library/Idea generation

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A good idea is often not taken seriously, and so people don’t treat their inner, beautiful, crazy ideas as they should. Instead, they tend to call them “unrealistic”. But every project is born out of this vague state of being, and only if you take it seriously can it grow into a big tree. It is even said that only one in a thousand ideas is taken seriously, spoken out loud, and then brought to life.

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

— Albert Einstein

In order to manifest what you want to bring into life, there is an important first step. It is this: to take your ideas seriously and investigate them. New things often appear as “crazy, unrealistic, vague” in their early days... and yes, there will be enough time to get them back on the ground later on. Dream hard to begin with. Why not? It’s only a dream at this stage. But as a first step an idea it should be allowed to be unclear, open, big, small, beautiful, ugly. Whatever it is.

Only by letting it be what it is, taking it seriously and diving into its qualities we will find out what it is about; what wants to be brought to life. And only from this point can you create a good concept. To elicit ideas and bring them to life, creative methods are helpful as we can dive in and play with them.

• Vision & Purpose.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideation_(idea_generation).
• Submitted by Pioneers of Change.