Birth and Death of an Idea!

Humans are the most efficient super computers with excellent cognition skills. This is as much a curse as it is a blessing. Our minds are capable of generating brilliant ideas and at the same time we can think of all the adverse conditions that may prove to be stumbling blocks in the pursuit of those ideas. And many big ideas have been scrapped because of the fear of failure.

I would like to debate for the point of view that these over-cautious tenedencies in human beings are the most unwanted attributes and once we learn to conquer these traits, we may be able to achieve more than we can currently dream of.

I have been gifted with an above average imagination and since childhood I have had plenty of ideas. Unfortunately, most of my ideas were laughed upon, ending up in discouragement and self imposed humiliation. It was not until recently, (about 5 years back) when I realized that my ideas are my brainchildren and thus don't need anybody's approval or disapproval. That is when I started keeping my ideas to myself and stopped sharing them with anybody. The reason for my conduct was that I thought I would implement my ideas myself and then the significance of those ideas would be acknowledged by this world.

Over the years of struggle and experimentation, I have now come to realize that not all of us who can dream, are capable of accomplishing their dreams by themselves, even when they give their hundred percent. And the reason for that is, we can not be an expert on everything. We have to depend on the social structure in order to fulfil our dreams. And thus whether we want it or not, we have to depend on others up to some extent to accomplish what we set out for.

Now, the most important thing that needs to be taken care of, is how to share or express your dreams in order to be taken seriously, in order to gerenate faith in people whose assistance you will require, in order to be heard and understood exactly as you intend to.

There are a few practices that you need to imbibe so that you become effective in pursuing your goals. Following are some points that you must focus on before moving ahead towards realizing your dreams.

1. Take time to think and re-think on your ideas. Haste makes waste.
2. Try to put them down on paper, to the very minutest detail level that you can think of.
3. Focus and Identify the "must-haves" and keep aside the "nice-to-haves" when you begin.
4. Identify contingencies as early as possible, because that will allow you to think about a holistic mitigation plans.
5. Never let your enthusiasm be bogged down by the skepticism, of others or your own.
6. Don't confine on your ideas by the resources you have. It will be practical to slice your entire idea in to small phases or modules ( if there is a shortage of resources) but never slash an idea because of a current unavailability of resources. Tomorrow when you have more resources you can work on the next phase or module, but if you cut down today, tomorrow you will regret it.
7. Don't be scared to think radically. People who think like others have never made a difference and they never will. Be original.
8. Don't fight for your idea, fight for your beliefs. Because it is your belief that will give you strength and inspiration, not your ideas per se.
9. Never set a limit to what you can achieve, only set a time limit for every achievement.
10. Don't give up. Because you will never know how close or far you were from your goal.
11. Don't let others define for you what you can achieve.
12. Listen to others' point of views only as if you were reading a newspaper, to retain what makes sense to you and to ignore what doesn't.
13. Have the strength to break all the rules, including the ones mentioned above.

I believe if these basic guidelines are kept in mind one can become self-reliant and can understand the importance of his/her own ideas. I have seen many great people go down with their brilliant ideas, just because they couldn't follow their hearts and stand up for their beliefs. I have spent a considerable amount of time trying to put in words, what makes the brilliant ideas be born and die without ever being noticed.

Don't let your ideas die prematurely.

Wishing you good luck.

Regards,

Neoriz,

"Victory of Mind over Matter."