Mitch Ditkoff’s “14 Ways to get Breakthrough Ideas
This book is about how people have to learn how to expand their creativity to think of original great ideas. Great ideas can make good things happen. By the process of creating new ideas, people should learn to select the good and abandon the bad. One of the points that Mitch Ditkoff mentions is that just because your idea does not work doesn’t mean it is bad, It just means switch it up and try something similar but change it. I read this article and have a deep feeling about this. This article basically tells you how to explore every idea you receive.
In his suggestion #1, Follow Your Fascination. He explains to us how the fascination work in people’s mind. We should be will to let fascination grow in our head so we can be more easily to capture new ideas. When I walk down street, ideas may be built simply because I see or hear something that have resonance with my mind. Things that can capture my attention must be those I am interested in. In order not to loose this inspiration, I used to take a note in my phone. There is once I wrote a film story, the protagonist is a romantic woman with fantastic ideas, when she happen to think of something new, she will text to her passed boyfriend. That’s the beauty of texting. So I think I’ll write my ideas down as soon as possible, before I loose it. Fascination could never be wrong. May be some of the ideas seems subconscious and has no logic, it is still your original idea, so why give them a judgment? I used to write dream diary when I was in High school. I write those absurd dream stories down because I think they can give me more inspiration to create new stories. In a word, there is no right or wrong ideas, ideas are precious, and like what Mitch Ditkoff said, “Out of the thousands of ideas with the power to capture our imagination, the fascination felt for one of them is a clue that there’s something worthy of our engagement. Don’t dismiss it as trivial. Give it room. Give it time to breathe. Honor it.”
“Fascination, quite simply, is nature’s way of getting our attention.”
In his suggestion #4, Make New Connections. I think this part is exactly what I have the same voice with him. People won’t get creative if they always relies on solos. If there are no idea of combining wheels and containers together, there won’t be cars. Why don’t we make connections? There are more things that can be connected together than we can ever imagine. Think of doing your math question, how many ways can you combine these characters? Making new connections is probably the same thing.
Make three parallel lists of ten words. The first list? Nouns. The second list? Verbs. The third list? Adjectives. Then look for intriguing new connections between them.
First list: seed, grass, farm, cow, milk, bottle, Vitamin, baby, money.-----seed can be money.
Second list: move, transport, jump, act, build, live, call, marry, study, travel.----have a house and live a life.
Third: Small, ugly, cold, big, beautiful, wonderful, excellent, happy, entertaining, available---getting more happy life
Different words can combine different meanings. Ideas can jump from the same to contrast, ideas varies, making connection never ends.
What other thing I’m interested about is his suggestion #10, Hang Out With Diverse Groups Of People. I think this suggestion is really helpful to get new ideas. Sometimes the power of a single man is not enough. We need to meet friends, and different groups of friend can give us different suggestions. You can never know which type of suggestion is proper until you really listen to them. That’s why we should hang out with different group of people. Friends may have bias on your opinion, but that’s fine, nobody will think exactly the same, just don’t be afraid to ask for suggestions. People can never be too intelligent to learn from others.
Here I’ll make a list of ten groups of people outside of my traditional “posse” who I can spend time with.
1. The CSSA members. Since I work as the Vice president of Ad. Department, we usually have a lot of meetings to discuss what are the plans. And I can always get something new because we are different kind of people who think in different patterns.
2. My video production collegues. Although we study the same thing. People’s idea varies. Just like there won’t be a same shooting style between directors.
3. Cosplayers. We post our artworks online, make comments and communicate with each other.
4. My teachers. Teachers can always teach you those things you don’t know.
5. Families. There are never be more connections between family members.
6. Roommate. She’s the one knows how you look like when you sleep…O.O
7. Classmates. If you don’t know the homework for today, call and ask them.
8. Boyfriend/Girlfriend. I don’t really know if it is a constant relationship to you, but mine... = =|||
9. Boss. He is the person who can give you suggestions on work. Maybe sometimes too strict, but it is always good to listen to him.
10Those famous people online. Spend time on Facebook or sina blog will sometimes teach you how the world around you really looks.
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