How to get Better Ideas

Personal Development

It is a common belief that great ideas can only come from highly educated people like scientists, professors, etc. But this is a misconception. Everyone has the capacity to give some good to great ideas based on the knowledge, common sense, and wisdom they have gained over the years. Let me give you a small joke.

A country’s astronauts wanted a pen that could write upside down while they float in space. So their scientists spent tons of money and manufactured a fancy pen that could write in any position. The astronauts were thrilled at this fancy gadget. Later the pen was displayed to some high school students in a science exhibition. While most students were amazed at the pen one student asked why didn’t they simply use a pencil that can write in any direction? Now you can imagine the rest.

As you can see from the above joke it was not necessary for spending tons of money to manufacture such a pen when an ordinary pencil would have done the job. So an ordinary high school student was able to give a better cost-effective idea than all the scientists in this case. In a similar way, everyone can give good ideas for many areas even if they don’t have experience in that field like that high school did.

Here are a few ways to generate good ideas.