"Again"-my initial reaction
Couple of years ago I sat in my favorite creative place. It was a Borders bookstore on Michigan Avenue. In it I would spend hours writing and creating. I miss that place
One Saturday morning a thought came to me that there exist equations in life that could be captured as a book. A book of Life Equations.
The other day I went to my new library in Galveston and picked up a book. The title of the book is Emotional Equations by Chip Conley. I flipped through it and my initial reaction was the quote above. Again, something that I created someone else executed.
Granted that my idea and his idea are different. The thought of someone else creating what I thought was cool bugged me. I remembered the old saying about God taking out insurance on us. He gives the same idea to many people. He does not care who executes it.
When Steve Jobs died I started writing a book about lessons we could learn from his life. I quickly created 200 lessons from his life but I have not finished the book. Again, I will eventually find a book with the same ideas I also though about. It all boils down to quickly executing the ideas you get. I need to do a better job of this.
Today's question is:
"Do you execute your ideas quickly?
Couple of years ago I sat in my favorite creative place. It was a Borders bookstore on Michigan Avenue. In it I would spend hours writing and creating. I miss that place
One Saturday morning a thought came to me that there exist equations in life that could be captured as a book. A book of Life Equations.
The other day I went to my new library in Galveston and picked up a book. The title of the book is Emotional Equations by Chip Conley. I flipped through it and my initial reaction was the quote above. Again, something that I created someone else executed.
Granted that my idea and his idea are different. The thought of someone else creating what I thought was cool bugged me. I remembered the old saying about God taking out insurance on us. He gives the same idea to many people. He does not care who executes it.
When Steve Jobs died I started writing a book about lessons we could learn from his life. I quickly created 200 lessons from his life but I have not finished the book. Again, I will eventually find a book with the same ideas I also though about. It all boils down to quickly executing the ideas you get. I need to do a better job of this.
Today's question is:
"Do you execute your ideas quickly?
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