Ideas – How do I generate these or where do I get these from?

All of a sudden your wall clock stopped working. Then what would you do? The first thing you would think is battery replacement (Is this not an idea? Yes it is). Ideas should be thought of by thinking. If you do not know to think then it is difficult to generate the ideas. You can cultivate this kind of skill by practicing. It doesn’t mean that you practice with the complex things but you can start of with a simple thing. A precise example would be – There was a robbery in your colony. So how would you generate different set of ideas to investigate? If there was no robbery also, model some story of your own and start trying out different set of ideas or possibilities.

Example: There was a robbery of few bi-cycles in your colony. There was compound and the gate was locked. Now generate different set of possibilities that how a robber(s) would have robbed the bi-cycles.

The above one was just an example. You can try out your own scenarios. You might also want to say, “I don’t know to create scenarios, How do I do that?” To help you start of consider a below scenario which I thought of while writing this post,

“I was eating breakfast in hotel; I went to washroom leaving my Wallet on the table. As soon as I came the wallet was missing (Now you can try this scenario and generate the ideas that you could use for your investigation purpose).”

If you want to know about more ideas which you could not think of then you can ask different set of people to get different set of ideas. This would be a great exercise as you might get to know how different people think. But it is not good that always you seek the help of others to generate ideas. Then what would be the purpose of you having BRAIN.

One of the exercise me, Pradeep Soundararajan & Manoj M V had done was, “There was a coconut lying on the ground”. And the exercise was about, “How did it land over here”. There begun our generation of ideas. To know more about this exercise run to Manoj M V’s Blog.

Thanks for your time & I hope after reading this you will pick up an exercise instantly and have your ideas on a piece of paper (You can have a particular start time and end time so that you can know how fast you are doing it).