Miyamoto - never throw away bad ideas

“If you think for yourself about what’s wrong with your idea, and you understand the reasons why it’s no good and get a handle on the problem, then you’re sure to be able to use that idea sometime. That’s why, while I used to tell people to store up ideas in a drawer, I recently suggest putting ideas that were no good into a drawer with the reason why they were no good affixed to them. Like writing the reason on a label. If you have a bunch of ideas like that in store, the time will come when, in some way, you can take off that label. Like, ‘oh, the rules are different now, so it’s okay’.” - Shigeru Miyamoto

That’s a really great way of handling bad ideas. I can see how those bad ideas can become good ones once you have more life experience, and a few new ways of looking at things. I might have to start trying this!

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