50 Benefits of Forcing Yourself to Think of 50 Ideas
Even bad ideas make you better.
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3 min readAug 16, 2016
I dare you to come up with 50 ideas.
Think about a problem you want to solve, an issue you hope to overcome, or a message you want to convey and write down 50 ideas of how you can do so.
When you commit to generating 50 ideas for something, here’s what happens:
- You have good ideas.
- You have bad ideas.
- You push yourself.
- You get frustrated.
- You want to give up.
- You learn not to give up.
- You discover “hard” isn’t “impossible.”
- You discover you’re not as good at generating ideas as you think.
- You discover you’re better at generating ideas than you think.
- You recognize the value of process.
- You realize the power of goals.
- You surprise yourself when you push past the obvious.
- You realize how rarely you do deep thinking.
- You stop judging yourself.
- You become ok with just being ok.
- Your mind drifts off subject.
- Your mind drifts…