Ideas

Every journey starts with a good idea, but what separates a good idea from all the others? With that, what gives us the ability to distinguish between a good idea and just an idea? When Einstein came up with his cosmological constant, it was a good idea to him. In later years he realized that he had made a terrible mistake, and his idea was the worst thing he had ever thought of. He distinguished his idea from a good one.

As it turned out, his idea was of monumental importance to modern physics, though he did not live to see this come into fruition. That was unlucky for him, but this could happen to any of us, it has happened to so many people. Those who are thought to be ‘before their time’. Whoever thought of flying cars is a genius. Many say that the idea of a car that flies is a joke, that it will never happen and is impossible. This idea has been around for decades, so yet another person may not be around to see their idea flourish.

Google is another example of a great idea. Search and find. Thats all it takes for Google, you ask for something in particular, from millions of things, and they will find it for you. That is like asking for someone to find the yellowest piece of straw in a pile of millions of bits of straw (excuse the bad use of the English Language in the example). The only difference is a simple computer algorithm can do that for you, they just did it the best. Ask Jeeves did the same thing, but no-one says “go and Ask Jeeves” as the reply to a sentence, they say “google it”, because google is a high ranked market leader of an idea that has made someone millions. How can something so simple have provided such an income for people?

The reason this is possible, is because everybody wins. The companies that advertise their websites get hits to the site, for very little money. The people who “google” websites have a free, quick way of finding what they need. The owners of Google sit back and rake in the money, because millions of pennies a day still makes a hell of a lot of money.

On a more personal note, I have no ideas. It is quite easy to say that a lack of an idea makes for a bad idea, that is easily distinguishable from a good idea. Maybe some of us are not wired in the same way as others, some do not have the artistic flair needed to come up with an monumental idea, that can change the face of the world as we know it. But who is to say you are not on of those with that flair, your idea could not only make you millions, but could change the world entirely.

So get thinking people, and who knows, you could change everything.