BACK TO THE BASICS- BEING INSPIRED BY THE SIMPLE THINGS

Sometimes I forget how the basics really excite me.  This week I visited my local library.  Yes, the bricks and mortar version.  It has been forever since I have entered that building, and it has me questioning why I haven’t been there for so long.

Every time I walk into a library, I get excited by all of the possibilities.  It offers a browsing of information that you just can’t recreate anywhere else.  I know the web provides some great opportunities to happen across information, but by the nature of the web the flow of topics follows a somewhat logical path.  In a library, you can wander across absolutely random information.

My favorite section is the staff picks.  I always find something fun and interesting there.  There were great books on natural gardening,  great for saving our bees, a book on jewelry making, and then closer to my love a book by Hugh Macleod “ Ignore Everybody, and 39 Other Keys to Creativity”, which I of course had to check out.

It turned out to be a gem of a book with lots of fun practical advice.  Starting with the title “Ignore Everybody.”  Hugh says, “The more original your idea is, the less good advise other people will be able to give you.”  Now that is good advice.  I find that with a platform called “ Deviant Thinking” people just don’t know what to do with that.  It is true when you are truly original you just do things because you are passionate about it, don’t wait for other to get it, just do it.

Hugh also says, “ Good ideas come with a heavy burden, which is why so few people execute them.”  Good ideas often are like pushing a rope up hill.  When the idea is new and fresh, it is also scary for most of the world.  To get your new idea out there you have to push, share, and persuade.  Not an easy task.  It is not for the faint of heart.  And this is so true. There are days when I get tired trying to share new ideas and get other to get it.

I learned today that when I am fatigued,  I need to head to the library to get re-energized.  When I walk among the books, I see all of the great ideas out there, and I know that these folks had to be brave, independent and unrelenting in their ideas to share them with the world.

What is energizing you to keep going with your deviant ideas?

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