Ideas on Demand Quotes

“The greater tragedy is when people get wow ideas but never bring them in front of the world due to the fear of rejection.”
― Miliind Harrdas, Ideas on Demand: A crash course on creativity. Bust creativity blocks, 10x your ideas, and become an idea machine.

“The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality. His procedure was simple: on the final day of class, he would bring in his bathroom scales and weigh the work of the “quantity” group: fifty pounds of pots rated an “A”, forty pounds a “B”, and so on. Those being graded on “quality”, however, needed to produce only one pot – albeit a perfect one – to get an “A”. Well, came grading time and a curious fact emerged: the works of highest quality were all produced by the group being graded for quantity. It seems that while the “quantity” group was busily churning out piles of work – and learning from their mistakes – the “quality” group had sat theorizing about perfection, and in the end, had little more to show for their efforts than grandiose theories and a pile of dead clay.”
― Miliind Harrdas, Ideas on Demand: A crash course on creativity. Bust creativity blocks, 10x your ideas, and become an idea machine.

“Here is a list of a few of the activities that you should attempt every day. (If you are comfortable with any of the activities listed below, please replace them with a set of activities that scare you a lot.) ● Volunteer to speak in public. ● Dance in public. ●      Reach out to well-known figures in case you come across any of them. ● Publicly share your aspirations. ●      In seminars, workshops, meetings, or any other public forum, ask lots of questions to get all your doubts clarified, even at the cost of being considered a fool. ●      Ask a total stranger for a favor in a calm, matter-of-fact way. ●      If you are still not a YouTuber, start your channel. Post your video on it. ● Post something bizarre, unconventional, something that you normally would never do.”
― Miliind Harrdas, Ideas on Demand: A crash course on creativity. Bust creativity blocks, 10x your ideas, and become an idea machine.

“steps that you need to follow: Reversing assumptions: Earlier, you did the exercise of reversing the assumption. In that exercise, after writing down the opposite statement. You asked yourself, “Why might it be true?” and “How can I make these ideas happen”? When you answer these questions, you find new frames. How many new frames did you find earlier? Please list them down. Now do the same exercise one more time. Try to find a few more new frames. What is your total now? Changing your questions: Like above, earlier at the end of the chapter, “Change Your Frame, Change Your Game”, you did the exercise of finding new frames by changing your question. How many new frames did you find earlier? Please list them down. Now do the same exercise one more time. Here you can use the technique of “wearing different hats” to your advantage. Try to find a few more new frames. The more the hats of different people you wear, the more frames you can discover. What is your total now? Random Words Technique: In this chapter, by using the random word “bicycle”, we created 11 frames, and after connecting the diverse dots from different frames, we created 5 more frames. So, with one random word, we could generate 16 frames. By following the same technique, how many random words would you need to create One hundred frames? You can use as many random words as you can to generate the maximum number of frames. Adding dots to the frames: As seen in this chapter, it is easy to add dots (ideas) to reach the magic figure of one hundred once you have enough frames. Allow your mind to wander: You have understood how our subconscious mind feeds us with ideas. At any point in time, you feel that the task has become too daunting for you, allow your mind to wander. When it comes back, it will bring a few golden nuggets (more frames) for you. Flex your ideas muscle: You have built strong ideas muscle by doing so many exercises after every chapter. It’s time to demand more from it. Sleep on your challenge: After a night’s sleep, your subconscious mind will not let you stop at one hundred ideas. It will keep on bringing you more and more. Always keep your notepad and pen ready.”
― Miliind Harrdas, Ideas on Demand: A crash course on creativity. Bust creativity blocks, 10x your ideas, and become an idea machine.

“People struggle with creativity because they tend to connect the same set of dots and, therefore, end up getting the same run-of-the-mill ideas. A wow idea happens when you connect completely diverse dots the way no one has ever done. To be able to make such connections, you need lots of dots as well as different types of dots. To get both the above, you need to look for different frames. Your assumptions are the invisible barriers that stop you from seeing beyond your existing frames. Questions that you ask determine in which frame answers will fall. If you keep asking the same set of questions, you will keep struggling inside the same frame. Changing your questions is a powerful way to i. Break the invisible barrier of assumptions ii. Discover new frames.”
― Miliind Harrdas, Ideas on Demand: A crash course on creativity. Bust creativity blocks, 10x your ideas, and become an idea machine.

“This tells us that after intense focus, walking brings us to the state of let go, where the subconscious mind takes over.”
― Miliind Harrdas, Ideas on Demand: A crash course on creativity. Bust creativity blocks, 10x your ideas, and become an idea machine.

“Each one of us is born creative. And then one day, we went to school.”
― Miliind Harrdas, Ideas on Demand: A crash course on creativity. Bust creativity blocks, 10x your ideas, and become an idea machine.