Where Do Ideas Spring From?

Isn’t it amazing how things evolve?

Seemingly from nowhere, ideas spring.

Ok, so now for the truth - it’s never nowhere. Ideas stem from foundations laid down some years, decades before - those notes you jotted down back in 2008? They are stored somewhere deep in the recesses of our minds, floating back to us when the time might be right.

Elizabeth Gilbert wrote beautifully about this in her book Big Magic. (Forgive me if I’m a little woolly on the details here) but she talks about how ideas land in your head - if you don’t act on them, they travel around in the ether, ready for someone else’s radar to pick up on - returning to you some years later if they still have legs.

It’s an interesting read and one that I heartily suggest devouring.

“There is nothing new under the sun” - erm, really?

Ok, I concede that entirely new concepts might be far and few between, but what is new each and every time, though, is how YOU might bring an idea into being. There is only one of you (and me) how we go about implementing things is uniquely our own.

So there is plenty of room for new things under our bright, brilliant, and beautiful sun.