Lecture Notes and Other Good Ideas
So I’ve just posted some lecture notes that you can download – (click on the picture to go to the correct page), and I know for a fact that some people will take pleasure in knocking them. Why am I so sure? Well to start with they’re not finished, infact they are properly incomplete. There are no pictures, references, and proper credits are few and far between. But you see they are a good idea in the making and that’s what throws people. Most people want to see the finished , shiny product or they struggle to see the potential, but I’m not like that. I like the fact that ideas develop and I like to share the process. It does mean however that people will critcise, but I’d rather they do that now and not wait until I’ve spent hours of sweat and tears producing the finished article, which by the way some people will still criticise.
Good ideas (as I kind of said in this post), don’t always run a smooth course. In fact the best ideas are always going to piss some people off so they will always be criticsed – if they didn’t they would be average, bland ideas and there’s enough of those around. But don’t confuse pissing people off with a good idea, the two don’t always go hand in hand – it could just be a bad idea, but you’ll never know if you don’t try it or at least talk about it.
Your best ideas are at their most vunerable before they even see the light of day, a simple comment from someone can plant a seed of doubt that will cause you to ditch an idea long before it has even had a chance to splutter into life. If someone says your idea won’t work ask if they have any good reasons before you question the idea itself. There’s a pretty good chance they won’t have any real reason other than the fact they can’t see what you see. Just because someone doesn’t “like” an idea doesn’t mean it wont work, it simply means they have a different view of the world to you. You have to keep reminding yourself of the feeling you had when the idea first popped into your head – carry that with you . Other people’s opinions are just that , opinions – feel free to ignore them or file them away for future reference, it’s your idea not theirs.
Have you ever had a routine or effect that you have shown to someone and they’ve not responded in the way you wanted them to? But you knew, deep down you knew that it was a good routine, so you persisted. If the negative response of one person is enough to make you waver then maybe you don’t have the commitment needed to make the idea work, maybe because it’s a bad idea.
Good ideas are like good books, you just can’t bring yourself to throw them away.
Please download the notes, share them, read them, criticise them if you want but let me know why or we’ll never get any better.
