Get a lot of DMs saying:
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“Hey, I got this idea what about this niche? What about this marketing campaign?”
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And my answer usually is to test it out.
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Now the reason why that answer is annoying to a lot of people is because somewhere in your mind you feel like,
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“Hey, maybe if I get like a great idea, I can sell it. And I don't actually have to do anything. I can just dream up things, other people could do it and I don't even need to get paid the full hundred percent of the generated revenue.”
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“If I just come up with ideas all day, maybe I can take 20% of whatever comes out of my idea, I'll be happy and I'll just be an idea man.”
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And I'm here to tell you that's not real.
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Everyone wants this and it's like sort of an archetype where you think,
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“Well, people invent things, right? And then they get paid for their invention.”
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Well, no.
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They get paid for actually turning an idea into reality, making a prototype, having the connections to get it to market, etc, etc. And then later on, yes, you get paid if you do a good job.
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Nikola Tesla died broke, penniless, sick and heartbroken. And he was probably a great inventor, very prolific dude.
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But yeah, didn't help much, did it?
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So ideas are lifeless in and of themselves. You need to test it out, you need to actually do something with it for it to become real.
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In this world, we only get paid for real things. We don't get paid for our ideas in our fantasy world. We get paid for real stuff.
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So if you have great ideas, tell your brain to stop planning and plotting it all out and trying to make it perfect.
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Just do something with it. Just get going. And once you start going, yes, you'll make mistakes. That’s normal.
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We all make mistakes. But it's all good. At least something is happening. The worst thing that you can do with an idea is doing nothing with it.
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And then, later on, you'll be pissed off because “you had this great idea, but yeah, someone else stole it from you”.
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No, we need to do shit with our ideas.
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