You invented a lot of what I'm using this very instant to compose this message.
I yearn to do great works of engineering and art, which I consider what you have done.
How do you come up with ideas?
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I yearn to do great works of engineering and art, which I consider what you have done.
How do you come up with ideas?
There's coming up with a good idea: learn how to not get buried in your ideas (most are mediocre down to bad even for people who have "good idea skills"!)
I write down ideas in notebooks to get rid of them. Every once in a while one will capture a different point of view.
And, there's the Princeton Tea joke of scientists comparing what they did for ideas. One says "I have them in the middle of the night so I have a pad by my bed". Another says "I have them in the shower so I have a grease pencil to write them on the walls". Einstein was listening and they asked him about his ideas. He said "I don't know, I've only had two!"
(Some people are better at filtering than others ...)
Most of my ideas come in "waking dreams" (this is a state that most children indulge in readily, but it can be retained in a more or less useful way -- I don't think you quite get into adulthood by retaining it, so it's a tradeoff).
Main thing about ideas is that, however they come, most of them are mediocre down to bad -- so steps have to be taken to deal with this major problem.