Ideas and Second Thoughts

Ideas – are probably the most wonderful little bubble that effervescent for the moment and fizzes out quicker than expected. Well, those moments of exalted expressions offers a fraction of joy and delight as when one screams out after a long range thought process – the index finger and the thumb snaps followed by the blurt “IDEA”.

Such a nice feeling, however is unfortunately and sadly overtaken by a detailed process that somehow fades the brilliant idea and shadows it over with a string on un-feasible probables that mars the concept. The moment vanishes and a new thought process begins. This process occurs a million times in our life, may be even more and so many number of once conceived ideas are just scrapped as we suppose them to be based on irrational concepts and failure oriented. The fear or rejection and failure mutes number of such springs that resonates in our minds. These concepts bubbles into thin air and the flavour vanishes. All this happens after we give it a processed ’second’ thought.

However, improbable it may sound, but I state, that it were these brilliant fizzes, spurts of concepts, ideas that have given rise to Tatas and Birlas yesterday and Ambanis today. Going overseas and it were these factions of seemingly improbable ideas that founded the todays industry stalwarts like GM and MS. Very categorically and expectantly I would be faced with and expected to answer the query – How? The answer is simple – These brainchild’s just refused to be confronted with a second thought and it was almost as a second thought was never ever required in the scheme of things.

Yes, it is safe to to see that it were the refusal of second thoughts, the refusal to rethink the strategies that have let to blooming of the buds of these ideas into full blossomed flowers that is spreading fragrance and reaping huge.

Now what does second thought does? Well, as the mind goes, second thought is nothing but an out and out pessimistic way of looking at things. Some say it is disaster management planning that needs to be considered before hand and then proceeded. Well, that sounds so very good and apt, but the detrimental factor that plays the spoilsport herein is that the idea generators think exactly what will lead them to shut down and close, the losses that might be incurred, the disaster that may arise and their ideas being drowned – all this exactly when they are planning about the start ups. See, thinking about the possibilities and preparing for handling the closing down when planning about a start up; seems so very paradoxically absurd.

The very point I want to stress out here is that, having a back up for failed processes is fine, but that shoul never ever mar the basics of starting the venture. After all a venture is an integral part of the term ‘ad-venture’ and everyone knows what an adventure is. It is not about lying in the dafe cocoons, but coming out of the cocoon and sheilding away the hurls. Its is not about hiding, it is about tackling. And one can never ever tackles issues unless they crop up in our faces. So instead of spending time, energy and efforts for virtual management of hurdles and difficulties, an idea generator should focus upon laying of the foundation and tackle things as they come. Herein a sound mind will always know how much to put on stake and how much to keep safe.

As everyone knows – thought runs wild, one must also cognise that they do run wild in both directions, postive and negative. So when an idea strikes – usually the first thought – it runs on the positive side of the line, and when second thought comes into play it runs wild on the negative side. So the next time when you give your ideas a second thought, remember you need not give it a second thought. Just build on the first thought with some fixes and additives. Dismantle the framework of second thought and use the dismantled frame for buildng the idea.