Fear Of Bad Ideas
A few people are afraid of good ideas, ideas that make a difference or contribute in some way. Good ideas bring change, that’s frightening.
But many people are petrified of bad ideas. Ideas that make us look stupid or waste time or money or create some sort of backlash.
The problem is that you can’t have good ideas unless you’re willing to generate a lot of bad ones.
Painters, musicians, entrepreneurs, writers, chiropractors, accountants–we all fail far more than we succeed. We fail at closing a sale or playing a note. We fail at an idea for a series of paintings or the theme for a trade show booth.
But we succeed far more often than people who have no ideas at all.
Someone asked me where I get all my good ideas, explaining that it takes him a month or two to come up with one and I seem to have more than that. I asked him how many bad ideas he has every month. He paused and said, “none.”
And there, you see, is the problem.
*This was taken from Seth’s blog. This hit so hard I had to post it. I felt like he took the words right out my mouth*
Thanks Seth, you’re a genius!
T.Magic
I love this blog and everything it’s stands for but I think you should focus a bit more on your brand and releasing products because everything is always sold out. Just my thoughts
Great link!
More like the fear of not getting another TM release lol
It’s so true… Failure leads to success. Thanks for this Magic
Loving the insightful post.
Seth Godin is now on my bookmark.
Great discovery.
I’ve have got some money put away just in case there’s an unexpected release
Never no
I’d be really interested to see some of the bad designs that T Magic didn’t use. All the unreleased stuff!
I find it pretty hard to think he has ba designs but he MUST have.
^Might as well join in…
Would like to see some early T-magic designs/artwork. Would be good to see the progression.
^ Agreed
He should bring back War of the Roses and Know your Roots
2010 will be interesting. Can’t wait to see how he will progress.
^ Would love to see some different colour sweats/tees
T-magic if you are reading this show us some of your old/bad designs that didn’t work.
^ Good shout
P.S. Seth’s blog is an eye opener.