Become an Idea Machine

Ideas are the real currency of the 21st century.

Money can buy things.
Technology can multiply them.
But a powerful idea can create something that didn’t exist before.

A new business.
A new film.
A new book.
A new short story.
A new music video.
A new way of living.

So don’t just consume ideas.

Collect them. Question them. Connect them. Develop them.

Read more.
Observe more.
Think more.
Write more.

Keep a notebook. Keep your mind open. Capture the strange thought, the crazy question, the tiny observation.

Most ideas will go nowhere.

That’s okay.

An idea machine doesn’t need every idea to be brilliant.

It simply needs to keep producing.
Keep creating.

Because somewhere among the ordinary ideas may be the one that changes everything.

As James Altucher says -
Become an idea machine. 

— Manohar Chimmani