V_ Building an Idea Factory with Ali Abdaal
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Date: April 11th, 2021
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- How can I create a business whose results are systems-dependent rather than people-dependent The E-Myth Enterprise Michael Gerber
- Idea Factory
- Collect - Collect nutrients for our mind like a chef collects food for their kitchen
Connect - Make sense of the ideas in your head through reflection and conversation
Create - Put thoughts on paper and edit them until they are good
- Collect
- > Everbody's got an eye for something. The only difference is that I carry around a notebook in my front pocket. I write everything down, and it helps me recall. - David Sedaris Quote
- Ideas to Collect
- Epiphanies
Reading
Experiences
Conversation
- > I think jokes come from a kind of intense visual acuity... I feel like my senses are, my eyes and my ears and my skin, and I just feel everything just a little more than I would even like to. - Jerry Seinfeld Quote
- Three B's of Creativity
- Bed - Take a nap and let yourself dream
Bath - Relax by taking a bath, reading a book or calling a friend
Bus - Get on the move, even if you're just going for a walk
- Information to Consume
- De-Correlate - Knowledge and ideas not often found together
Outside the Spotlight - Look away from mainstream sources of news and information
Escape the Time-Bias - We've moved from a space-bias towards a time-bias
- > The originality of an idea depends on the obscurity of sources. John Hegarty Quote
- If you curate a sufficiently unique information diet, you'll have a combination of ideas nobody has ever seen before
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- Connect
- The Content Triangle
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- Conversation, a way to start developing ideas through feedback. Continue that idea for an email news letter or social media post. Then to an article and finally a book. Through each phase you are collecting feedback and refining the original idea
- "One newspaper profiled these small-club sessions. It described Rock thumbing through pages of notes and fumbling with material. "I'm going to have to cut some of these jokes" he says mid-skit
The good jokes you see on Netflix are the tails that stuck out of a universe of hundreds of attempts." - Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money
- Original idea -> Why -> Why -> Unique Thesis
- There are no unique messages only unique messengers
- Create
- > When you're writing, you want to treat your brain like a toddler. It's just all nurturing and loving and supportiveness. And then when you look at it the next day, you want to be just a hard-ass. And you switch back and forth. - Jerry Seinfeld Quote
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