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50 Benefits of Forcing Yourself to Think of 50 Ideas

Even bad ideas make you better.

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:

1. You have good ideas.
2. You have bad ideas.
3. You push yourself.
4. You get frustrated.
5. You want to give up.
6. You learn not to give up.
7. You discover “hard” isn’t “impossible.”
8. You discover you’re not as good at generating ideas as you think.
9. You discover you’re better at generating ideas than you think.
10. You recognize the value of process.
11. You realize the power of goals.
12. You surprise yourself when you push past the obvious.
13. You realize how rarely you do deep thinking.
14. You stop judging yourself.
15. You become ok with just being ok.
16. Your mind drifts off subject.
17. Your mind drifts…