Its my job to have ideas. Its great fun capturing an idea and fleshing it out to make it my own when I write or draw. Ideas are like the air we breathe. They're all around us if we but pause to look at a problem from all angles.
I'm fascinated by folk with ideas - folk who recognise that these unique ideas have a place, and folk who have the guts to make it work. Mahatma Gandhi had an idea. He marched to collect a fistful of salt - but he did it with a silent army of folk and on a historic day- and he made history. Thomas Edison's idea was to meet the needs of common folk through his inventions- making them important to everyday life and affordable - the light bulb, the phonograph- no one realised how many times he failed, because when he did succeed, he made history. Steve Woz had an idea to bring personal computing to the common folk by making it user friendly, and Steve Jobs saw the marketing potential in this idea. Together, the two of them made history.
Kids have the freshest ideas- they're not hampered by experience. Look around you and celebrate anyone with an idea. All ideas have been tried before - its the unique angle- the slant that you take that makes all the difference.
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