There is a lot more to success, no matter how you wish to define it, then many give it it’s due credence for. An idea can be anything, whether it’s a new habit, business model or way of thinking.
It begins with an idea
No matter what you achieve in life, everything has a beginning out of nothing. Your own being essentially came from what is the sharing of genes from your mother and father, who they themselves came from these same humble origins. If you go back far enough, we are all composed of what is essentially the benign nothingness of the universe(s) we live within. Ideas are no different, if you go back far enough, they essentially arise from a spark that is the same size as the universe right before the Big Bang. Infinitely small and complex yet made up of no real form nor reason. What I am trying to say is that like all living organisms across all the known and unknown universes, ideas share the same mysterious origins of nothingness… turning them into substance is the where the true challenge lies.
Turning ideas into Crap
Alright, you got a great idea, the first of several re-writes that will occur as you formulate these concepts into a working model will be essentially made of useless junk. All ideas sound absolutely amazing… creating a new paradigm shift that will influence generations to come… then, when put on paper, make as much sense as a fish developing lungs.
Turning Crap into Flowers
Yes, there are some fish out there with a working pair of lungs, but they are as rare as a good idea. Out of possibly 100 ideas you may generate on any given day, I would challenge you to implement more then one idea into this state… allowing it to grow and generate a life of its own. This is where the true entrepreneurs, leaders and visionaries skyrocket, no, they don’t have more ideas then the rest of us… it’s that they have NO FEAR of spending hours, days and even months molding crap with their bare hands until they can produce something as beautiful as a flower. They don’t mind getting their hands dirty, they don’t mind what others think or have to say about their idea… they are professional self-obsessed ignorance machines hell bent on proving that something works to themselves.
Turning Flowers into Crap
Let’s say you spend 6 months entrenched within an idea, you have spent an incredible amount of limited resources towards producing something that you are convinced is freaking amazing… then one day… in the middle of the night… you wake up and realize you just wasted 6 months of your life. A visionary has no problem saying “alright, they where right, I screwed up… onto the next idea!”. You see, turning crap into flowers is always time well spent, no matter the outcome. The next time, you will find more efficient ways of organizing your time, quicker methods towards synthesizing the next model and more importantly, optimized your very own mind to become an even more “outside the box” thinking machine. Essentially, when the flower dies, it also turns into crap which, as with many things in nature, gets recycled for the greater good. There is no loss, nothing wasted but a gain is achieved. Produce enough flowers, and the resultant crap can only accelerate the growth of more flowers, creating a self-perpetuating machine that very few entrepreneurs have been able to achieve through a lifetime without taking enormous risks. You see, the larger the plant, the more maintenance it requires, the more headaches are involved and the more crap is produced. Now you see why many companies fail as they grow, the complexity simply becomes too large for the stewards to manage.
Defining crap and flowers
Crap is an incredibly dense, nutritionally broad substance that has been used since the dawn of time to accelerate growth but it, on it’s own, has no real value. Flowers only happen when plants feel comfortable, well cared for and don’t mind using extra resources, that aren’t necessary for daily survival, towards beauty. All ideas begin as crap, it’s up to you to turn them into flowers. Without crap, you cannot have flowers.
The Bottom Line
The only failure is not trying at all.
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