Ideas are great! They make us so excited, curios, energetic. They give us hope. They unite us around them in collaboration and togetherness. What's the secret?
Let's start from the beginning...
Humans VS. Machines
Humans, as opposed to machines, have a feeling about somethings that work. When we see something perfect - we know that it's perfect and we get happy. When something broken, we get sad. The difference between the two isn't so big. Sometime you can't put the finger on what make the difference. It's just matter of our belief, that come from our mind, our imagination. The meaning that we relate to the material.
Machines, as opposed to humans, just execute orders. They don't feel great after the mission is completed. They can make a happy sound that we program them to. But they don't really feel happiness. That's why computer programmers meet 'bugs' all the time. They expect to get something from the computer, but the computer execute their orders precisely and don't know what is the target. The computer don't know there's a bug at all.
Idea is a promise
What make us happy and excited? a belief. A belief that everyting will be OK, the problems will be solved. When we hear a great idea, we belief, at least for a moment, there's a solution for a real problem. That's why, in my opinion, idea is actually a promise. We don't see any evidence in our eyes, yet. We just hear an idea, a story. But this story lead our imagination to the happy situation, when we feel that things get the right way.
A machine, by the way, can't get excited from an idea, because it's not interrupted by anything. From machine perspective, everything is OK right now.
Why ideas die? (or just get sick)
Ideas have energy inside them, we can say that they have their own life. But they can also get sick and die. Sometimes we hear great idea and it makes us excited, but then after a while, we forget about it and get back to our bussiness. Why it so?
It occurs because from some reason we don't believe in that promise anymore, it make us dissapointed. Sometimes it because we made some thinking and we have found problems in the solution suggestion. It became harder than we thought in the first time. Sometimes, it's just the time that passed and we don't see any progress, so we get dissapointed also. I think it is very important to diagnose the reason, because we may find a healing for that illness.
How we can do that and why it so important?
I'll write about that in the next time.
Until then - Have a great steeming!!!