Running Out of Ideas Isn’t the Problem

Why do we worry about running out of ideas?

Our minds are idea-making machines; we couldn’t stop them from ideation if we tried. 

So why aren’t we creating something new and publishing it every day? Why do we fail to write a blog post? Or take a photo and post it?

We do not suffer from a lack of ideas: we worry the ideas we do have aren’t good enough to show anyone else. 

Here’s the secret: they probably aren’t. Most of the ideas you think up aren’t great. They might not change the lives of thousands of people. 

But there’s a chance one might change one person. And that small chance is reason enough to put your ideas out into the world. 

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