I am trying to think through some ideas today. Rethink old ideas. Theorize a little. It hurts. The hard part is knowing that for any good idea I’ve had, there has been that point where I see it as a bad idea. Seriously…any idea. So if I pursue an idea, usually it is because I can deal with it quickly enough, deal with it before I think it is a bad idea. This is why shopping ideas never seem bad.
I am at that point where I feel like this idea I had…is not so great…and I don’t know what I should do. Should I give it a rest? Will it be better later? Is my mind too clouded at the moment to admend the idea and make it something good again?
At times like these, I like to imagine what it would be like to have an absolutely, purely, without a doubt, universally good idea. Like, a thought that is sooo RIGHT and without bias and applicable anywhere…a TRUTH of an idea. Imagining this makes my head hurt a little…but it brings up some great imagery of my ears giving birth to my brain.
ideas hurt
Hendrik said,
I am exactly like that too. Which is why I have quite a few half finished projects and others that I finished but which seemed so totally painfully flawed to me at the end that I was glad to be able to move on.
Right now the idea that landed me my summer job seems really not that great anymore. But luckily I have a new one that currently seems brilliant and perfect in every way. I just hope that I can convince the other people involved to let me work on that instead. And of course I hope that the idea doesn’t go bad on me.
Rigel said,
I have un-fnished projects too. But I don’t see the projects being the most important of actuallizing idea.
I thought I might point you at an article I wrote.
Speaking of ideas. This one, I consider fairly universal. Hope it helps.
Contradiction is the Causation of Balance
http://master-rigel2-projects.blogspot.com/2006/06/contradiction-is-causation-of-balance.html
You can also link back to that blog’s homepage via links in the page.
Rigel
