4 Basic Steps for Idea Generation (Eureka Moment)

I had been recently struggling to get ideas, creating content that sells then one day I said to myself sitting still and staring at the wall was not going to be enough to overcome the drought. Desperate and hungry of a sudden I took it upon myself to overcome this hurdle and started researching. With zero clues about "what" I was seeking, I came across a book called "A technique for producing ideas" by James Young.

3 hours and a power nap later I definitely didn't get enlightened but got a breather and a very powerful recently rejuvenated perspective.

Some of my learning from 3-hour long commitment were:

1. Gathering raw materials: An idea is not something new every time of asking but it is a combination of old ideas put together in the new style. Read articles, history books, watching movies, analyzing social media trends, science, poetry etc. anything which has a story or logic attached to it. Consider what you are cooking is for every type of person. Sophisticated, generic, niche every kind of audience. When you have read it all store every finding in a note.
2. Digesting the material: Synthesizing the contents from phase one and directing it towards our need. Drive those truckloads of information towards the scarcity or the crisis you want to overcome.
3. Unconscious processing: Forget everything I have mentioned in the above two steps, wipe it all out and let your subconscious mind take over. It will automatically start connecting dots from your subconscious memory and give you the directions you never knew existed.
4. The moment of magic "Eureka moment": The idea will hit you when you are least expecting it. It could be on the back seat of your bike, in between a korokke, even when you are in a toilet seat.

Write your ideas down ASAP.

Million's and billion's of ideas never get an opportunity to even be heard."

-Prajwal Aryal