Comments on: The Power of a Second Opinion http://lifedev.net/2008/04/the-power-of-a-second-opinion/ Helping Creative People Create Mon, 21 May 2012 10:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: travesti http://lifedev.net/2008/04/the-power-of-a-second-opinion/comment-page-1/#comment-13957 travesti Sat, 08 May 2010 08:38:48 +0000 http://lifedev.net/?p=471#comment-13957 hi very nice your site's contents. If this is a nice sharing. Thanks, but for my country because there is no content sites like yours as I would always follow the most liked sites like these and I'm waiting for new issues and explanations. hi very nice your site's contents. If this is a nice sharing. Thanks, but for my country because there is no content sites like yours as I would always follow the most liked sites like these and I'm waiting for new issues and explanations.

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]]> By: Freddy http://lifedev.net/2008/04/the-power-of-a-second-opinion/comment-page-1/#comment-9299 Freddy Sat, 03 May 2008 03:12:24 +0000 http://lifedev.net/?p=471#comment-9299 Got to say that you miss out one piece: The enthusiasm that is behind the idea is what makes it personal. If you mistake the idea itself for the embodiment of your own enthusiasm, you start clinging to it. Bad cricism comes from people who are not asking for the roots of the enthusiasm, yet falsify the idea where they can. If the enthusiasm, as in something separate from the idea, some sort of taste, curiosity, or simply good feeling about a certain small thing within the idea does not get any attention during the criticism, it is hard to discount it at times, because the enthusiasm is feared to be discounted together with it. Now, my point is: if you would let any idea die just because someone else says it does not make sense, then you would not be truly creative. Similarly, the excitement of someone else does not necessarily mean you should go forward with it. You have to take a step back and think about why you are excited about it. This is what shapes anything and gets anything going. If you are concious of that deeper motivation, you are ready to mold the idea while taking care of not loosing yourself and your excitement in the process of accounting for marketability and viability. Very confusing, probably. Does that make any sense to you? :) Freddy Got to say that you miss out one piece:

The enthusiasm that is behind the idea is what makes it personal. If you mistake the idea itself for the embodiment of your own enthusiasm, you start clinging to it. Bad cricism comes from people who are not asking for the roots of the enthusiasm, yet falsify the idea where they can. If the enthusiasm, as in something separate from the idea, some sort of taste, curiosity, or simply good feeling about a certain small thing within the idea does not get any attention during the criticism, it is hard to discount it at times, because the enthusiasm is feared to be discounted together with it.

Now, my point is: if you would let any idea die just because someone else says it does not make sense, then you would not be truly creative. Similarly, the excitement of someone else does not necessarily mean you should go forward with it. You have to take a step back and think about why you are excited about it. This is what shapes anything and gets anything going. If you are concious of that deeper motivation, you are ready to mold the idea while taking care of not loosing yourself and your excitement in the process of accounting for marketability and viability.

Very confusing, probably. Does that make any sense to you?

:)

Freddy

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]]> By: Andre Kibbe http://lifedev.net/2008/04/the-power-of-a-second-opinion/comment-page-1/#comment-9274 Andre Kibbe Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:36:05 +0000 http://lifedev.net/?p=471#comment-9274 Isn't that the great thing about having a blog? You get to think out loud and share your ideas with all of your readers (or both readers, in my case!) You might even discover that an idea has merit by the number of responses, even if the responses are negative. I second the Lisa opinion about the guinea pigs ;) Isn’t that the great thing about having a blog? You get to think out loud and share your ideas with all of your readers (or both readers, in my case!) You might even discover that an idea has merit by the number of responses, even if the responses are negative.

I second the Lisa opinion about the guinea pigs ;)

]]> By: Lisa http://lifedev.net/2008/04/the-power-of-a-second-opinion/comment-page-1/#comment-9266 Lisa Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:49:27 +0000 http://lifedev.net/?p=471#comment-9266 Good advice, Glen! It's true that what we think is terrific might really not be that great to the rest of the world. Been there. ...and I love the photo! I used to have guinea pigs and they really are adorable. Lisa Good advice, Glen! It’s true that what we think is terrific might really not be that great to the rest of the world. Been there.

…and I love the photo! I used to have guinea pigs and they really are adorable.

Lisa

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