How to Find Good Ideas for Business and Life

Excellent article by Donald Latumahina from Life Optimizer:

There is a lesson ... I learned from the book On Writing Well:

You should always collect more material than you will use. Every article is strong in proportion to the surplus of details from which you can choose the few that will serve you best.

...to find good ideas, you should:

• Have as many ideas as possible, and then
• Choose the few ideas that serve you best

...here are some steps to find good ideas:

1. Expect ideas from every situation
2. Bring a capture tool wherever you go
3. Don’t filter the ideas you get
4. After you’ve collected enough ideas, filter them

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Besides collecting as many ideas as possible, it’s good to increase the quality of your input. That way you can have higher-quality ideas to choose from. Here are some tips to increase the quality of input:

1. Diversify your reading
2. Choose the most important book to read next
3. Get the most out of your reading
4. Surround yourself with positive people
5. Find a mentor
6. Use the art of arbitrage and increase your arbitrage power