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With negative judgment you lose. With
positive judgment you lose.

come up with a great idea.” That’s a good state of mind for developing
brilliant ideas? I don’t think so.
Or let’s say you judge your idea to be good. Then what? What do
you think most people do when they find a good idea? That’s right.
They stop looking. They’re happy, so they stop. “I have a good idea. I
have a solution to my problem. Thank you. I’ll get on to the next crisis
that needs my genius.”
Sorry, friends, but that attitude is the attitude of the great gray
masses. Not the attitude of the big winners. In an age when it takes
major advancements to get an edge and huge ideas to create impact,
what good are merely good ideas? As Voltaire said, “Good is the enemy
of great.”
Again, the reason most people don’t come up with great ideas is
because they come up with good ideas, then they stop. Is there a better
idea? You’ll never know if you stop.
So you see, judgment during the early phases of creative thinking
screws things up either way. My suggestion? Use 100 MPH Thinking
to come up with many ideas—10 ideas, 50 ideas, 100 ideas. Why not?
Heck, if you normally come up with two or three ways to solve a prob-
lem, 10 is 300 to 500 percent greater. And 50 is something like 1,800 to
2,500 percent better. And 100 ideas? Well that’s
whole magnitudes better than two
or three ideas!
I get twenty ideas for songs to get one
When you come up with finished. I get twenty songs finished to get
your 10, 50, or 100 ideas, one worth singing to someone else. I get
then you judge them. Who twenty worth singing by me to get one
which somebody else finds worth singing.
cares how many are less than
perfect, or downright horrible
for that matter. Are two pretty good?
Maybe five? Perhaps eight? What’s wrong with that? Pete Seeger