Comments on: Failed Ideas as Fuel http://garrickvanburen.com/archive/failed-ideas-as-fuel User Experience Strategy, Ruby and Rails Web App Development Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:04:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: bex http://garrickvanburen.com/archive/failed-ideas-as-fuel/comment-page-1#comment-27493 bex Fri, 01 Dec 2006 07:07:20 +0000 http://garrickvanburen.com/archive/failed-ideas-as-fuel#comment-27493 Do you watch Ze Frank? He had a similar point... ideas are like Brain Crack: http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/07/071106.html Even if an idea is bad, you gotta get it out of your head! Talk about it, try to do it. If it fails, who cares?! The important point is that you will never have NEW IDEAS until you try to execute on the OLD IDEAS. If it works, great! If not, at least you have more experience than somebody who never tried! Those who hang on to their ideas until they can execute perfectly are the tragic characters... ideas are addictive, like brain crack. If you hang on to them for too long, you can mess up all your potential. Do you watch Ze Frank? He had a similar point… ideas are like Brain Crack:

http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/07/071106.html

Even if an idea is bad, you gotta get it out of your head! Talk about it, try to do it. If it fails, who cares?!

The important point is that you will never have NEW IDEAS until you try to execute on the OLD IDEAS. If it works, great! If not, at least you have more experience than somebody who never tried!

Those who hang on to their ideas until they can execute perfectly are the tragic characters… ideas are addictive, like brain crack. If you hang on to them for too long, you can mess up all your potential.

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