How To Get Ideas

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We’ve got another solo episode for you this week, and this one’s for all our creatives out there. Coming up with an idea can be deceptively difficult, but fear not, because we’ve got some tips on how to generate them.

This whole topic came around from Kevin’s unfulfilled promise – his weekly cartoons. A while back, he set a goal to draw one cartoon a week, and for a while he was going pretty strong. But recently, due to LIFE SUCK that was completely out of his control, he stopped. We talk a bit about how to get back into the swing of things when that happens to you, and more importantly, how to start coming up with IDEAS again.

Sure, coming up with an idea is tough. But what’s even more difficult is actually following through with it. We talk about the slippery slope of getting consumed by an idea, loss of potential, and how to avoid those pitfalls.

Then we give a nod to TCU alum Marques Brownlee, who had a tweet recently talking about how, oftentimes, your best ideas come to you when you can’t write them down. We talk about why things like “shower thoughts” come around, the importance of creative oases, and even a little about the philosophies of Arnold Schwarzenegger.

We round out the episode with what might possibly be the most important pillar of creativity – limitations. Matt gives one of his famous rants about how limitations can help you, how they come into play in his own life, and how The Eagles’ Don Felder inspired it all.

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