Get wealthy by generating new ideas
Wealth comes from ideas, and ideas come from the belief that you are creative.
Given the above, you can see why most people are not wealthy: they don't have ideas.
They also hang around with people who have no idea. Test my statement and verify by yourself: when was the last time a friend or relative shared an idea with you?
When was the last time you had a brainstorming session, either by yourself or in a group of people?
Indeed, wealth comes from ideas, and people who have no new idea, will never get wealthy.
You can DRAMATICALLY increase your creativity by reading Edward de Bono's books, especially Lateral Thinking and The Six Thinking Hats.
You can also just follow Brian Tracy's advice of stating a problem at the top of a blank sheet of paper, and then writing out -- without thinking -- 20 ideas or potential solutions.
I've been doing that for years, it truly works.
The above are techniques or tricks to improve or boost your creativity.
However, at the deeper level, here's why most people are NOT creative and spend an entire life with few new ideas. I call it the "Anti-Creative Vicious Cycle."
This vicious cycle is created by the educational system, which is CONTINUALLY "teaching" students NOT to come up with any new idea, but rather to memorize whatever the teacher is throwing at them. The message, throughout a young person's 12-year period of time spent at school, is: "Don't have any new idea, just memorize and regurgitate during exam time."
Indeed, young kids upon entering the educational system, have lots of ideas. Their imagination is quite fertile. By the time they graduate, they are unimaginative and obedient, ready to follow instructions issued by the news media, employers, the government, etc.
Okay, here's the actual vicious cycle:
1. You don't believe yourself to be a creative person
2. Therefore, you never carry a pen and notepad with you.
3. NOT carrying a notepad and pen with you, continually sends a signal to your subconscious that you are indeed NOT a creative person. This brings you to #1, and the cycle is perpetuated (perpetrated?) over and over again, thereby locking a person out of wealth.
You can break this cycle by buying a $1.00 (at any $1 store) notepad and carry it with you everywhere you go. The mere presence of this notepad will constantly remind you to have ideas and WRITE THEM DOWN. The more ideas you write down (like I do with blogging), the more easily and the faster ideas will come to you!
Ideas are SO IMPORTANT to becoming wealthy that I often say, "Fortune has a price, and the price is WRITE!" That is, write down all your ideas, even the ridiculous or stupid ones.
The truth is, you have to write down about 50 bad or ridiculous ideas BEFORE you stumble upon a good one. Quantity always precedes quality.
In other words, don't try to have "good ideas." Just write down, without judging them, ALL the ideas that come to your mind, and you can do the sifting and selection AFTERWARDS.
Notice that this process is similar to Darwin's Natural Selection phenomenon, which is responsible for our evolution: Lots and lots of mutations occur randomly and "mindlessly" in nature, and the GOOD ones are selected for which then results in evolution.
Let me share with you some of the crazy ideas I've had in the past. By the way, keep in mind that sometimes, an idea might not be good yet it might still serve as a stepping stone so your mind can move to a new idea that is right behind that bad idea.
1. Why not publish your hard drive? How much would you charge a person if he/she were to buy all the contents in your hard drive?
2. Writing a blog post in one minute (60 seconds). I actually implemented this idea three years ago, and was able to create a blog that had 1,000 posts (all written under one minute). The time constraint forced me to bypass my conscious process and just express the awesome ideas in my subconscious.
3. How rich would you be if you could package all your valuable knowledge into a PDF document, and were able to sell it to 6 billion people?
4. What if I created a one-page mind map that linked together all the key ideas from all the best non-fiction books out there?
5. What if I packed all my best knowledge onto a DVD, then put it in the mailbox of my neighbor along with a letter asking him to copy the contents onto his hard drive, and then put the DVD in the mailbox of the next neighbor down the street?
You see, my friends, a person's mind is basically just "space" for ideas. If you have a small mind, then you won't accept any new ideas, either from yourself or from others.
Small minds have small bank accounts -- and small lives.
By buying a $1.00 notepad, you are indeed creating "space" for new ideas to come into your life. You are giving yourself permission to accept new ideas, evaluate them, and create new solutions based on them. This can only make you richer and happier.
Given the above, you can see why most people are not wealthy: they don't have ideas.
They also hang around with people who have no idea. Test my statement and verify by yourself: when was the last time a friend or relative shared an idea with you?
When was the last time you had a brainstorming session, either by yourself or in a group of people?
Indeed, wealth comes from ideas, and people who have no new idea, will never get wealthy.
You can DRAMATICALLY increase your creativity by reading Edward de Bono's books, especially Lateral Thinking and The Six Thinking Hats.
You can also just follow Brian Tracy's advice of stating a problem at the top of a blank sheet of paper, and then writing out -- without thinking -- 20 ideas or potential solutions.
I've been doing that for years, it truly works.
The above are techniques or tricks to improve or boost your creativity.
However, at the deeper level, here's why most people are NOT creative and spend an entire life with few new ideas. I call it the "Anti-Creative Vicious Cycle."
This vicious cycle is created by the educational system, which is CONTINUALLY "teaching" students NOT to come up with any new idea, but rather to memorize whatever the teacher is throwing at them. The message, throughout a young person's 12-year period of time spent at school, is: "Don't have any new idea, just memorize and regurgitate during exam time."
Indeed, young kids upon entering the educational system, have lots of ideas. Their imagination is quite fertile. By the time they graduate, they are unimaginative and obedient, ready to follow instructions issued by the news media, employers, the government, etc.
Okay, here's the actual vicious cycle:
1. You don't believe yourself to be a creative person
2. Therefore, you never carry a pen and notepad with you.
3. NOT carrying a notepad and pen with you, continually sends a signal to your subconscious that you are indeed NOT a creative person. This brings you to #1, and the cycle is perpetuated (perpetrated?) over and over again, thereby locking a person out of wealth.
You can break this cycle by buying a $1.00 (at any $1 store) notepad and carry it with you everywhere you go. The mere presence of this notepad will constantly remind you to have ideas and WRITE THEM DOWN. The more ideas you write down (like I do with blogging), the more easily and the faster ideas will come to you!
Ideas are SO IMPORTANT to becoming wealthy that I often say, "Fortune has a price, and the price is WRITE!" That is, write down all your ideas, even the ridiculous or stupid ones.
The truth is, you have to write down about 50 bad or ridiculous ideas BEFORE you stumble upon a good one. Quantity always precedes quality.
In other words, don't try to have "good ideas." Just write down, without judging them, ALL the ideas that come to your mind, and you can do the sifting and selection AFTERWARDS.
Notice that this process is similar to Darwin's Natural Selection phenomenon, which is responsible for our evolution: Lots and lots of mutations occur randomly and "mindlessly" in nature, and the GOOD ones are selected for which then results in evolution.
Let me share with you some of the crazy ideas I've had in the past. By the way, keep in mind that sometimes, an idea might not be good yet it might still serve as a stepping stone so your mind can move to a new idea that is right behind that bad idea.
1. Why not publish your hard drive? How much would you charge a person if he/she were to buy all the contents in your hard drive?
2. Writing a blog post in one minute (60 seconds). I actually implemented this idea three years ago, and was able to create a blog that had 1,000 posts (all written under one minute). The time constraint forced me to bypass my conscious process and just express the awesome ideas in my subconscious.
3. How rich would you be if you could package all your valuable knowledge into a PDF document, and were able to sell it to 6 billion people?
4. What if I created a one-page mind map that linked together all the key ideas from all the best non-fiction books out there?
5. What if I packed all my best knowledge onto a DVD, then put it in the mailbox of my neighbor along with a letter asking him to copy the contents onto his hard drive, and then put the DVD in the mailbox of the next neighbor down the street?
You see, my friends, a person's mind is basically just "space" for ideas. If you have a small mind, then you won't accept any new ideas, either from yourself or from others.
Small minds have small bank accounts -- and small lives.
By buying a $1.00 notepad, you are indeed creating "space" for new ideas to come into your life. You are giving yourself permission to accept new ideas, evaluate them, and create new solutions based on them. This can only make you richer and happier.
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