Quantum Storytelling

Can You Identify Good Ideas?

"I'll know it when I see it."

Maybe you won't? Seth Godin has one of the best blog posts I've read in a long time, for the simple lie it exposes.

We've all said it at one time or another.

You won't know it when you see it, because even people who are exceptionally gifted at picking out good ideas sometimes pass up goldmine opportunities.

Nobody can identify all the good ideas, all the time. Nobody. Like wisdom and the humility of Socrates, the best thing you can do is to admit that you know nothing, and work to constantly improve your knowledge. The same is true for picking out good ideas. We all have to admit that we aren't as great as we think, and our only recourse is to work at becoming better about picking good ideas.

It's the only way to move forward.

And picking ideas is one area where it pays to second-guess yourself. Is your idea really that good? Why? Maybe you've come up with a stinker. But then again, maybe that idea that woke you up in the middle of the night, but seemed stupid the next morning--maybe it's the best idea you've ever had?

What measurements do you use in judging an idea? Are you good at picking them?

Do you know it when you see it?

posted by redchurch @ 2:26 PM