Good Ideas Are Cheap

Good ideas are overrated, even great ideas are overrated. When was the last time a good idea changed the world? Ah, Edison, you say? Einstein? Adam Smith? Marx? Tesla? I bet a dozen other names are popping into your head right now, but you’re wrong, dead wrong.

It was not these people’s ideas that changed the world, it was passion. The passion these people had for their ideas changed the world. Good ideas are a penny a pound, they born often in your mind. You know the feeling, a new idea smashes into your head and you just know it would work, even if it’s unusual, you know in your heart that it would work, but do you go for it or do put it away? I ask you, did you act upon your last great idea? How about the last ten than came before that one?

Don’t kid yourself as a would-be genius, that great idea you just had was already thought up by someone else before you and if not it won’t be long until someone does. The only difference between you and the next insurgent that changes the world won’t be a great idea, it will be passion.

An idea on its own is nothing more than a nice puddle of fuel, but passion, the drive to act upon what you believe and take on the world; that’s the true spark of change and when that spark lights up that fuel your idea catches on fire. That fire is inspiration, it grows and spreads to others and before you know it your world will be ablaze.

That good idea you just had? I don’t care for it, its harmless, its weak. It’s even weaker than the status quo. But your passion? Your passion makes me turn my head, it makes me react. There are sparks near that fuel, watch out! A fire’s about to start!

So what will you do when your next great idea strikes? Will you simply swallow it like the rest and get drunk on it as if it were alcohol? Or will you dare to be passionate and light up a fire that changes the world?

Give me fuel, give me fire, give me that which I desire!