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Volkan.
Volkan.
11.20.2005
How to create a billion dollar idea
To generate a billion dollar idea, first you should teach yourself how to create ideas. If you don't know how to create at all then how on earth can you come up with an innovation?
Just go back in time, when did you recently say "voila!", "euraka! that's a brilliant solution!", "heck, why hadn't I thought that before!"
I bet when you were around five-six years old, your every single day was full of exciting inventions and discoveries. You were amazed at every seemingly unimportant bit of piece you found out.
Why, because there were no prejudices to base your knowledge upon.
But what happened then? You attended to school. It was good and fun at the beginning. But when you pop out of university with a reputable degree, you most probably have lost your crucial abitilies which may make you innovative: questioning, relating seemingly unrelated phenomena.
You entered primary scool as a question mark. And left the university as a full stop.
Just think about when you last cried out loudly in Church (I am a Muslim, but we do not run back and forth foolishly or shout aloud in mosques as well). When did you recently punched (yes punched) the keys of the large reed pipe organ in that Church and enjoyed the combination of unharmonious notes you've produced?
(well I did it with a pipe organ in the University :) - did not punch it but my -quote and quote- "artwork" was not a pleasure to ears -- luckily it was just me around :) )
If not in childhood, then probably never.
So you want to innovate huh?
Then uncover your veil. Break the rules. Forget about what you know, what you have learned, what they have imposed you in the past. Be illogical (most genuine ideas stem from illogical relations between things)
Never lose your sense of humor (that's another practice of creating shocking relations between seemingly unrelated things. Humor is a u-turn man).
Be a fool, be an "absolute" fool. And most of it, be free. Be a child in short.
Enjoy any and every single bit of action you do.
That's it. If you want to be creative, go back to your childhood. If possible go back to your mother's womb and initiate a brand new life.
So you wonder why I haven't gained a fortune yet:
Man I am only six years old, when I become four I surely will gain a fortune and buy myself a very large ice cream. So large that it will cover up the entire north pole.
Cheers and have a lovely week start.
Just go back in time, when did you recently say "voila!", "euraka! that's a brilliant solution!", "heck, why hadn't I thought that before!"
I bet when you were around five-six years old, your every single day was full of exciting inventions and discoveries. You were amazed at every seemingly unimportant bit of piece you found out.
Why, because there were no prejudices to base your knowledge upon.
But what happened then? You attended to school. It was good and fun at the beginning. But when you pop out of university with a reputable degree, you most probably have lost your crucial abitilies which may make you innovative: questioning, relating seemingly unrelated phenomena.
You entered primary scool as a question mark. And left the university as a full stop.
Just think about when you last cried out loudly in Church (I am a Muslim, but we do not run back and forth foolishly or shout aloud in mosques as well). When did you recently punched (yes punched) the keys of the large reed pipe organ in that Church and enjoyed the combination of unharmonious notes you've produced?
(well I did it with a pipe organ in the University :) - did not punch it but my -quote and quote- "artwork" was not a pleasure to ears -- luckily it was just me around :) )
If not in childhood, then probably never.
So you want to innovate huh?
Then uncover your veil. Break the rules. Forget about what you know, what you have learned, what they have imposed you in the past. Be illogical (most genuine ideas stem from illogical relations between things)
Never lose your sense of humor (that's another practice of creating shocking relations between seemingly unrelated things. Humor is a u-turn man).
Be a fool, be an "absolute" fool. And most of it, be free. Be a child in short.
Enjoy any and every single bit of action you do.
That's it. If you want to be creative, go back to your childhood. If possible go back to your mother's womb and initiate a brand new life.
So you wonder why I haven't gained a fortune yet:
Man I am only six years old, when I become four I surely will gain a fortune and buy myself a very large ice cream. So large that it will cover up the entire north pole.
Cheers and have a lovely week start.
