Ideas Don’t Matter

I breathe ideas.

My brain is a constant flux of idea inputs and ways to implement those ideas.

But as I was sitting in my flight to Bangalore, I realized these ideas have no meaning unless someone implements them.

Everyone on the planet has ideas. The poor farmer in a Ropar village barely making enough for his family has ideas. A multi billion dollar entrepreneur has ideas. A tree has ideas. So does a fox, pelican, and even a mosquito.

The type, impact, and reach of the ideas vary. But if everyone on the planet has ideas everyday, then why do we still feel that there is not enough progress. Why can’t we eradicate poverty, bring happiness to everyone’s lives every minute of the day.

We have come a long way since the dawn of mankind, and they say it all begins with an idea.

I disagree.

It begins with the execution.

An idea on its own is just like the wind. You don’t know where it comes from. What its purpose is. What it can achieve. But you feel happy that its there. You feel the chills, and let it blow your hair.

But when you build a windmill and place it perpendicular to the wind, then you create magic. Then you can make it benefit countless other people. Then you executed your idea.

Without execution, we wouldn’t have the industrial revolution. We wouldn’t have planes, trains, cars, machines, electricity, cameras, the works.

Ideas drive passion. That’s all they do.

Execution drives purpose. Don’t stop having ideas. Start executing them.