After a meeting targeting the development of a breakthrough platform this thought came into my head. Good ideas are commonly associated with great things, but the fact of the matter is ideas are the easiest thing to come by, at least for some, the hard part is putting these ideas into practice. There are two difficulties, one might be technical, lack of knowledge to proceed with the idea or even the infeasibility of the idea. The second one is the most common one for me, the inertia to actually start moving with the idea further. This happens more on a personal level than at work since at work there is a overall drive from the boss. Nevertheless this is a key point, when you are OK in life, the will to aim at better is a bit blurred. The effort to have good ideas is pretty close to zero the effort of the development, well... Like Edison said a genius is 99% hard work and 1% of geniality, how right this is. I meant before I thought well he would say that since he wasn't a Newton or Einstein, from a guy that did loads of things to manage to create the light bolt, he couldn't consider himself a genius on a regular genius quote. But now a days I mean you can figure out the best thing in the world, if you don't develop it, it is lost to the world, as such it is as if it never existed.
I saw this TV program over the weekend about Darwin, and apparently he was not the first one to argue evolution, but in fact he was the first one to try and do something about it. Didn't manged to do much, but he started what he could at the time, thus he is recognized as one of the great visionaries in human history.
So to the point, talk is cheap, put your money where your mouth is. So work on what you think is a great idea, and see it through to verify that it is...
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