tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2594420083676712011.post3163145942944928730..comments2013-06-08T05:01:07.491+10:00Comments on outlier-nj: Why Do Some Ideas Last the Distance, and Others Don't?Noëlle Janaczewskahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18290419660019865472noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2594420083676712011.post-16037756070483534672007-11-29T16:56:00.000+11:002007-11-29T16:56:00.000+11:00Re the limited longevity of ideas - to twist the n...Re the limited longevity of ideas - to twist the notion a tad - I have found that the surest way to kill an idea stone dead is to formulate a detailed proposal in a funding application and for that to be rejected. It doesn't matter how much faith one (me...) has in the idea itself, the thumbsdown is enough to eviscerate it. It's Dorothea Brande's advice (does anyone else remember BECOMING A WRITER all those years ago?) never to talk about an idea for fear of sucking the oxygen out of it all over again. And I wonder if that in its turn is related to the psyche's tendency not to differentiate between imagined events and real? I.e. if something is deeply experienced mentally the psyche regards it as a 'true' event. Therefore the closer one gets to fully imagining a piece the more the psyche regards it as part of the past. And why write the past when you can dream the future?<BR/>Verity Laughton7-ONhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16392309648904744720noreply@blogger.com