A human mind can get the gist of an idea even if it’s not adequately represented by an example. Yet a computer program would crash and that crash would be a nasty one that is called an intermittent error – the one that happens only sometimes. My example with the girl on the beach is related to that situation. That is, it shows that an accomplishment (and in the minds of old boys that never became men this could be qualified as an accomplishment) might not necessarily be a creation.
When it comes to a test or a smell, I am not sure how imaginative is your mouth or nose. I often imagine a new taste or smell. I consider having an unfamiliar taste or a smell to be a local equivalent of imagination. Led by this imaginary combination, I look for ingredients to match that mixture of smell and taste that occupies my imagination as it eventualities in a dish. The same can be applied to mixing drinks.
If something you do can help your dog and many other people and their dogs that surely qualifies as an idea. However, let’s say you have a thought of taking your dog for a walk. Indeed this will help your dog because it needs to pee. However, it won’t be an “idea” in a broad sense of this word. It would have been an idea if you lived a 100 thousand years ago and were the first owner of the first dog, though. It is similar to this. The first person who came up with 2+2=4 was a genius, but the second one was just a pupil.
In general, a creation of an idea has little to do with cheering yourself up and self-assuring. I cannot imagine Isaac Newton congratulating himself with the discovery of gravity when he was hit by an apple. It has to do with the fact that in a certain sense a person is an antenna that is tuned to receive a transmission from the Universe. It often happens that a person whose moral merits are doubtable nevertheless is blessed with a great reception ability. A good illustration of this would be a movie Amadeus when Salieri is surprised to see that Mozart’s originals that have no corrections of any kind as if he took a dictation.
I think what you discuss has more to do with a proper scheduling of your time. This topic is well presented in the book of David Allen "Getting things done."
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This post was sincerely addressed to humans.
A lot of things that you said, make sense. However, half of them are totally irrelevant to my post. Also, ideas needn't be something that no one in the world or in past 100 thousand years has ever thought of. It could be anything. Yes. You don't have parameters to qualify one thing as an idea and discard the other.
Every thought could be an idea. The significance and the impact of the idea could vary, but it is still an idea. I do not really consider the act of getting potatoes from the grocery store to be any significant. It's the impact that was spawned by the activity which is of significance.
Perhaps you should give it another read just to see what I am trying to say and not why the idea in your head doesn't match with what I posted and therefore I must be trying to say something else. No, I meant what I wrote. It has barely anything to do with scheduling of time.
Please learn a little more about this story. I'm sorry to burst your bubbles but that story is not true. I'd suggest you to read more.
We tried to communicate and it was not successful. You have the right to dismiss my comments, which you just exercised. Just tap yourself on the shoulder and be inspired. Cheers