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Tuesday, December 27, 2011

ideas and thoughts


Journal #24: ideas and thoughts

Journal Entry: Thu May 19, 2011, 5:15 AM
I have been thinking lately, What is the difference between Ideas and Thoughts? 

How can you relate responses like; "I have no idea!" or "this is thoughtful" to a certain course of action? 


I don't believe that I will reach a conclusion about the difference between Ideas and Thoughts in a couple of days, but attempts always worth a shot. and that's what I figured out...


An Idea is a single image, not necessarily clear, it can be an abstract or a vague photo of something, you can describe it in a word or two. Like the idea of Flying. I believe the image was a bird spreading its wings in a clear blue sky, or heading towards the sun in a beautiful sunset in a tropical island. After an idea comes a Thought. A thought is a group of ideas arranged together with a slight relation. 

Back to our previous Example:


Flying as an Idea: FLOATING IN THE AIR
  
Flying as a Thought: Relation between physical appearance, mechanism of movements, and others.


AN IDEA IS THE INITIATE OF A THOUGHT




I always hear the term "GOOD IDEA" and the worse term "BAD IDEA". 

This needs correction according to the theory I've just written. There is no such thing as a described idea, no Good Ideas, no Bad Ideas, but there is a Good Thought, and a Bad Thought. HOW?
Ideas are images, fixed points, but Thoughts can be manipulated, drove, and drooled according to ones needs and desires.

Taking the previous Example (again): 

Abbas Ben-Fernas decided to fly, he fixed two wings made of stems, and feather and jumped of a high place.
the result was his epic failure. 
(bad thought)  
The Wright Bros decided to fly, they made a number of attempts till they made it. knowing that, they were bicycle makers, they applied mechanism to their Ride.  
(good thought)



The more relations you fix, the more chances you got to succeed in your mission.



an image from Google.


Artists need Creative Ideas to initiate their Thoughts and create/process Art. 

John Cleese said, "you have to have two things to motivate your creativity, boundaries of Space, and boundaries of Time." 

He explained, Boundaries of Space as a place where you can't get interrupted, disturbed or intruded by external factors (Like, getting inside your room and close the door with a sign on the door that you're busy), and Boundaries of Time as a time limitation to the initiation of ideas (like, setting the clock from 12:00 pm till 1:00 pm to initiate ideas.) 


IF YOU GOT A PROBLEM with NO SOLUTION, SLEEP OVER IT.



The reason for the term "Sleeping over a Problem" is that your mind processes twice as fast when you're awake, because the mind works subconsciously when you're asleep.

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