Big Ideas are OK, action is better
“Talk is cheap, because supply exceeds demand.” – Anonymous
Seth Godin, has just posted an answer to a question he ask was asked on “Why do you give away your ideas so freely ?”.
Here’s what he said….
I responded that ideas are easy, doing stuff is hard.
My feeling is that the more often you create and share ideas, the better you get at it. The process of manipulating and ultimately spreading ideas improves both the quality and the quantity of what you create, at least it does for me.
And the clincher for me …
History is littered with inventors who had “great” ideas but kept them quiet and then poorly executed them. And history is lit up with do-ers who took ideas that were floating around in the ether and actually made something happen. In fact, just about every successful venture is based on an unoriginal idea, beautifully executed.
There are a lot of really smart people with great ideas and a lot of talk. It takes a lot of balls to ante up and do the hard yards to make things happen. Trade Me is clear example of an unoriginal idea, superbly executed!