1/ The trick to having many good ideas is to give away credit for ideas faster than they hit you. Or not claim credit to begin with.
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2/ Unlike nature, ideas love a vacuum. I get at least two good ideas for every one I don't try to hold on to.
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3/ Holding on too tightly or being overprotective of an idea is a guaranteed way to not have any more. Ideas don't like being caged.
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4/ In an information abundance era, inevitably many will have the same idea, and all ideas will be revealed to have a long provenance
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5/ Skinner's pregnancy metaphor "I had a poem" is too static, though with right non-ownership attitude
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6/ Think instead of "it takes a village." You are one of a parade touching an idea as it grows up.
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7/ Look around. In Internet age credit is not going to those who claim a few good ideas, but to those who touch, enrich many passing ideas.
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9/ Think idea flows not stocks. Holding on to ideas attracts 1% of similar ideas, repels 99% of conflicting ones. Flows don't become filters
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