I appreciate this blog, Luciano. Thank you for releasing your insights to the public like you do.

That’s a great idea for sure. The only point I’d add is to evaluate your ideas some other day than the one you had the idea. Ideas look very different after you sleep on them.

Also, you must be careful not to judge your ideas while you’re having them, as this may block you from having as many new ideas.

And, yes, oftentimes something surprisingly good comes out of the weirdest of ideas… and they’re usually more fun, too.

Thanks for the contribution!

If you wanted to refine this even more, try setting a limit per day for your “Best Ideas”. If you tackle a quota of ten on a certain problem, save one-to-three at the end of the day. You could even set a parameter for what type of ideas you save: your “best” ideas, or your most “unique” ideas. Best being “what I think will be most useful later”, and unique being “something I’ve never thought of/never thought I would think of”. Or whatever else you can think of.

As you said, the ones that don’t seem to make any sense can always end up being better than the ones you think are best. Am I wrong?

1. It did not take long to make a list and even exceed the count (I set a count of 10).
2. As I was writing down ideas and looked at them, I noticed that each idea itself can be turned into a list (kind of recursion)

I think I will try to start the day with this exercise. I am used to keeping an idealog (on my laptop, in my mobile notes, in a notebook etc)

Nice to share thoughts with others.

Thanks.

I especially recommend posing a problem to yourself just before you go to sleep – not to start thinking about it, but just to put the idea in your mind so that your mind can digest it overnight. My brother did this and had a dream which showed him a detailed solution to a complex problem he faced in an engineering project.

Great post.