Tim Hurson
Speaker, writer, and creativity theorist living in Toronto, Canada.
When you try to generate ideas, think of yourself as a sales person knocking on a whole subdivision of doors. Some won't open at all, some will open a suspicious crack, and some will slam in your face. But the more doors you knock on, the greater your chances of being invited in.
Training, as practiced in much of corporate America, is an astonishing waste of resources.
Even though you may have started out saying you wanted imaginative, novel ideas, the tendency to drift back into the conventional is powerful.
Ideas are mutable. They are always capable of growing. Each time we look at them, we can see something new. We just need to give ourselves permission to do so.
As soon as you establish concrete intention, you begin to notice all kinds of things in your world that relate to that intention. Ideas and opportunities seem to appear from nowhere, almost as though by magic.