This is Rachel Cook. Welcome to today's episode of the Get It Done Guy. How to make idea

curation your workplace superpower. We live in a knowledge economy. Ideas are the currency of success.

They fuel new products, new customer acquisition strategies, and new ways of conducting business.

One great idea can make you a hero, and who among us doesn't aspire to be a hero.

But the thing about ideas is that there is a massive surplus of them.

Google darn near anything you can think of,

and a bare minimum of a hundred ideas.

Articles, products, solutions will be staring back at you in an instant.

In the digital age, anyone and everyone can put their

ideas out there in the world. And anyone and everyone does. So if too many ideas are the problem,

maybe creating new ideas isn't the best use of your time and skill. What if we used our critical thinking capabilities to

curate them instead? What is idea curation? Imagine an art museum. As you walk through it,

you notice and appreciate the paintings and sculptures. The experience you're having was crafted by a curator,

someone whose job wasn't to produce the art, but rather to group, arrange, and purpose it with

intention. Curation is a separate skill that complements creation. The artist is famous. The curator rarely is, but that doesn't make the curator

less of a hero. Curation is a powerful yet often undervalued capability. It's the talent for

seeing the swath of ideas already out there and extracting something fresh from them. Spotting themes and patterns, finding new applications for old ideas,

these are all ways of delivering value without creating something new.

So how can you demonstrate curation heroics by repurposing and organizing rather than producing

ideas to deliver value.

Here are some tips.

Tip number one, apply an old solution to a new problem.

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