Once I began to hear and pay attention to my fledgling ideas, the biggest hurdle was to learn how to respect them. That was hard, because the real way to respect an idea is to invest the attention and work needed to develop it.
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I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account executives often have big creative ideas, regardless of what some writers think.
I actually don't have a great surplus of ideas. Some evolve very slowly, over many years, but I sort of trust that all of the interesting ones will become something that I eventually end up doing.
It is very difficult to make the ideas in my head come to life, but what is harder is making them look effortless.
The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.
You have to work with the ideas and give them a little push.
The hardest part is developing the idea, and that can take years.
The innovative process is a fragile one, dependent on a complex, often messy interplay of imagination, competition, and exchange. Curbing new ideas hurts not only individual creators but the audience for which they create and the posterity that inherits their legacy.
A lot of times, people start out with a lot of good ideas, but then they don't execute. They lose the purity of their vision. You end up running around in circles.
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make.