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What inspires you?<\/strong> Ideas are continuous, they smear into each other. Sometimes someone mentions something and I think that\u2019s a great idea! Only to find out I have misunderstood completely. I\u2019ve got the wrong end of the stick! The thing is it turns out to be a new end of a stick. A fresh idea is born all through misunderstandings. I\u2019m back to the \u2018miscreation is innovation\u2019 idea again. I think that mistranslation or misinterpretation and such things are very fertile areas for ideas. One is responding to an external stimulation but adding something from themselves. It is like being a stranger on the outside. The new person is not totally at ease with the different conventions and rituals and sometimes misreads situations. And perhaps comes to interesting new conclusions. It becomes part of the stranger\u2019s perspective, and that perspective is not always accurate but it can be interesting.<\/p>\n Ideas are cumulative. They can be small and inconsequential but if there are enough of them they sort of build. These small ideas start triggering new ones, leading off in fresh directions. It rarely is one thing on its own. A new idea has many lesser thoughts and flickers of insight behind it. All my ideas are \u2018borrowed\u2019. I might have put a different slant on them but the origin is somewhere else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cIdeas are continuous, they smear into each other.\u201d What inspires you? Ideas inspire me. They come from others I guess. Ideas get passed around. It must be an external thing. I don\u2019t think they exist in a vacuum. Sitting inside…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"1r-sidebar.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-56","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/superabundance.co.uk\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/superabundance.co.uk\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/superabundance.co.uk\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superabundance.co.uk\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superabundance.co.uk\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/superabundance.co.uk\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":399,"href":"https:\/\/superabundance.co.uk\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56\/revisions\/399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/superabundance.co.uk\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nIdeas inspire me. They come from others I guess. Ideas get passed around. It must be an external thing. I don\u2019t think they exist in a vacuum. Sitting inside a black box is not a very fertile place is it? There were experiments with sensory deprivation. They produced hallucinations. It must have gotten in the way of insightful innovations. I don\u2019t hear about people emerging from their pitch black flotation tanks with an inspirational \u201cAha!\u201d
\nIf only floating peacefully in warm water could stimulate solutions to war, famine, and financial troubles.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/uuk.kxe.temporary.site\/website_0e10ecbc\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/blank1.jpg\" "\\"blank\\""){kind=spacer}
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\nMost new ideas turn out to be a re-make of old ones that have been forgotten.<\/p>\n