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Need a Great Idea? Feed Your Brain
A lot of great ideas happen when two or more other ideas collide to form something completely new.
Think of this like those old chemistry movies we used to watch in school. You had all of those atoms floating around and when two collided â bam! A chemical reaction. Maybe something new was created. Maybe something exploded. Or maybe it all fizzled out and nothing happened.
Well, a similar reaction is going on inside your brain or muse. Except instead of atoms floating around theyâre pieces of information or other ideas. As they drift about, they occasionally bump into each other. When that happens, you may get a new, third idea. Or a big explosion. Or absolutely nothing at all.
Now, if you have lots of atoms, or information and ideas, youâre going to get lots of reactions. Some will fail. Some will be so-so. And some will be hot â so hot, so full of energy, theyâll have the power to change the trajectory of a business. Or even a life.
The problem occurs when you donât have lots of random information and ideas. Fewer atoms mean fewer reactions. On top of that, you still have to weed through the invariable duds. So the odds of landing that one amazing idea drop considerably.
But not to worry â thereâs good news. You can increase your odds of getting those great ideas. Better yet, itâs fairly easy and painless. Below are three ways to get started.
1. Read, read and read some more.
The key is to keep it wide and shallow. What does that mean? Well, read lots and lots of different things, but keep it general. Read about sheep farming, finances, yoga, cooking, traveling, dog training, etc. But keep it general â donât read deeply. You can even skim if thatâs all you have time for.
Start by subscribing to a couple of different magazines and e-zines. General interest magazines are really good for this â Walt Disney used to read Readerâs Digest. Scatter them around the house â by the bed, the couch, even the bathroom. Iâd put a few in your car as well for those times when you have to wait for an appointment.
When you have a few moments, flip through them. Skim a few paragraphs. See what catches your eye.
You can also buy or rent audio books and CDs and listen while you exercise, drive, do the dishes, etc.
Whatever you do, DONâT read publications related to your industry. Thatâs for another time. This is brain-feeding time, not keeping up in your profession time. 2. Travel the world.
When you travel, you open yourself up to lots of new and exciting experiences. New sights, new sounds, new smells, new tastes, new textures. And they all have the ability to form a reaction with something else.
Donât have time to hop on a plane to India? Take a day trip to a town youâve never visited. Or, if you can only spare a few hours, seek out a park youâve never been to or a museum youâve been meaning to see or even that new cute little shop that just opened. You can always find somewhere new to visit no matter how long youâve lived in the same city. And if youâre truly desperate, try walking around your neighborhood on the opposite side of the street in the opposite direction you normally walk. (It can help jolt you out of rut.) 3. Open yourself up to new things.
Take the time to try new things. Meet people outside your normal circle of friends. Attend associations, nonprofits, hobby groups outside of the ones you usually go to. Listen to speakers on topics you know nothing about. Take a class at a community college about something outside your scope of knowledge. Or even have dinner at an ethnic restaurant youâve never tried.
Now Iâm not just talking about âtypicalâ creative things, like taking an art class or learning to belly dance. If youâre a creative professional, take a class on doing your own taxes or budgeting your finances or repairing your car. (Oooh, I bet all you creative folk felt a chill when I mentioned that.) The point is to really stretch yourself past your comfort zone. Make yourself uncomfortable. Itâs not only a great way to grow, but itâs a fabulous way to keep your muse fat and happy. And that helps keep the ideas flowing.
Creativity Exercises â Prepare the banquet
Over the next month, I want you do to at least one tactic from each of the above three techniques.
1. Read something you know nothing about. Even if you only spend five minutes skimming an article about quilting when the last time you tried to sew a button on a shirt you stabbed yourself with the needle and got blood all over the material.
2. Travel somewhere youâve never been before. Even if itâs an antique shop and the most antique piece of furniture in your house is a bookshelf your parents bought from Sears when you were a little kid.
3. Stretch yourself in a different and potentially scary way. Even if itâs attending one of those Home Depot gardening workshops despite every plant youâve tried to grow didnât and if your thumb was any blacker it would fall off.
You know how you work better when youâre not hungry, see how well your muse starts churning out ideas after a good meal.
Michele PW
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May 6th, 2010 at 10:40 pm
Help me build an awesome skill drain deck!?
Hello everyone, I’ve spent a good chunk of time searching through the internet looking for many skill drain strategies and ideal cards. I feel that my deck is decent now, but I still need to improve. I have read here and there that Skill Drain decks should be able to win without Skill Drain, for that reason I have avoided cards like Majestic Mech – Ohka, which are dangerous when Skill Drain isn’t active. I instead choose monsters that can hold their ground.
Monsters:16
Beast King Barbaros x3
Fusilier Dragon, the Dual-Mode Beast x3
Goblin Attack Force x3
Exiled Force x2
Gorz the Emissary of Darkness
Chainsaw Insect
Indomitable Fighter Lei Lei
Destiny Hero – Defender
Sacred Phoenix of Nephytys
Spells: 16
Forbidden Chalice x3
Fissure x3
Nobleman of Extermination x2
Mystical Space Typhoon
Soul Taker
Heavy Storm
Brain Control
Smashing Ground
Trade-In
Traps: 8
Skill Drain x3
Compulsory Evacuation Device x2
Dust Tornado x3
Call of the Haunted
Torrential Tribute
In this deck I am a bit Monster Destruction Heavy. So far it hasn’t been a problem (it’s been pretty nice, but probably unneeded. It really only opens up the field for me to attack directly, but my monsters could just decimate those monsters anyway). The only problem I’ve had so far is with decks that play cards face down a lot. The monster destruction ends up being useless. So maybe I could side deck a few noblemen of crossout for those decks.
I got a great idea from a Yahoo! Answers user to use Stardust Dragon. I looked into it and sure enough it looks very usable, especially since my deck has no protection for Skill Drain. I have never used a Syncro monster before so I do not know what to do exactly. Friom what I understand from the rule book, to syncro a monster, the level stars of the tributed tuner and non-tuner monsters must be exactly the same as the syncro monster. I’m assuming that you can’t go over the star level of the syncro monster. So I was thinking of going with 3 Copy Plants and using them with Fusilier Dragon. I think it will work out well. If you can go over the star level, then there really won’t be much of a problem in summoning the Stardust Dragon.
I want to remove Goblin Attack Force x3 and add in 3 Copy Plants when I get a Stardust Dragon. I want to remove Indomitable Fighter Lei Lei and maybe Destiny Hero – Defender and add 2 Chainsaw Insects when I get two more of them. This will get rid of my risky monster cards and boost my overrall power.
On Pojo, I learned that my summoning power was limited, focusing on summoning 1 beat stick each turn. I can see what he means, and my recent duels have shown this. My drawing power is limited as well. He suggested I put in some more 8 star monsters and add trade ins. I did this a bit, but I still need 2 more Trade-Ins and I don’t know if 4 level 8 monsters will be good for 3 Trade-Ins. He suggested a level 8 dragon that could work with it, but I don’t really want to use that one. Anyway, his advice was great, and after I made a few changes he suggested, my decks performance was much better than before.
My main concern for right now is implementing Stardust Dragon into my deck. After that I want to streamline it, getting rid of risky or useless cards and fine tuning a draw engine. Any comments, suggestions, and ratings are welcome and I hope to get a lot more great ideas and feed back. Thank you very much for your time and thoughts.
May 7th, 2010 at 3:42 am
this deck is already beast man, just add a few dark strike fighters and you’re set!!!!
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