28: How To Come Up With Better Ideas

Seeking Wisdom with David Cancel

Molly Sloan

Business, Entrepreneurship

5 • 610 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2016

⏱️ 16 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

If you liked this episode, we bet that you’ll love our blog content. blog.drift.com/#subscribe Subscribe to never miss a post & join the 20,000+ other pros committed to getting better every day. --- --- The secret to coming up with better ideas. "Stuff your conscious mind with information, then unhook your rational thought process. You can help this process by going for a long walk, or taking a hot bath, or drinking half a pint of claret. Suddenly, if the telephone line from your unconscious is open, a big idea wells up within you.” - David Ogilvy Join the community of Seeking Wisdom listeners at seekingwisdom.io and on Twitter @seekingwisdomio. Follow David (twitter.com/dcancel) and Dave (twitter.com/davegerhardt) on Twitter.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	What's up, what's up, what's up, what's up?
0:10.6	We're back.
0:11.6	Today, on Seeking Wisdom, we're going to talk about how to come up with better ideas.
0:16.7	Damn school me, Dave.
0:22.6	All right, so how to come up with better ideas.
0:25.4	I wanted to do this episode because you and I were trading a couple messages the other day.
0:29.8	And I said to you, there is a direct relationship between how much I'm reading and, like, you know, listen to podcasts and articles and books
0:38.6	and how much I'm able to create things.
0:41.6	Yeah, and the quality of your ideas.
0:42.9	Like if you look at anything I've written or anything I've done, there's a direct,
0:47.7	like I was reading something.
0:48.9	I was deep in a book, deep in something that's related to that.
0:51.7	And you said, boom, you un- congratulations, you earned a point. You unlocked the secret. Man, Dave just unlocked the level, right? And I had to point that out to him. Yeah. So he just took it up a notch. And it's something that is, man, it takes a while to figure this out. And Dave figured it out quick. I wish I knew earlier, but like we always say there's stages. I'm glad you weren't ready, grasshopper.
1:08.8	And so, yeah, so the secret is really like how much you're consuming. And this is, this goes back to, you know, one of your big themes, which is like always learning. Yeah, this is why reading. Exactly. This is why reading is so important. and, you know, I think I had said a long time ago
1:10.9	that, like, at least for me, reading isn't about necessarily learning what's on the page in front of you, which I think people take it literally. Reading is about unlocking the answers that you already know inside you.
1:43.7	You actually, so this is, I'm glad you brought that up because this wasn't in my notes
1:47.0	and this is one of the most important things is when I first started here and started to really
1:51.0	get into reading, you changed my perspective on reading.
1:54.0	Like I used to try to read and try to remember every single fucking thing and little bullet in a
2:00.2	book.
2:00.6	That's what they taught you at school.
2:01.7	It's what they taught you, right?
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Molly Sloan, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Molly Sloan and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.