Tony Fadell says great ideas chase you, not the other way around. They become a black hole consuming your thoughts until you either solve them or commit. Sometimes you have to run away and let the idea stalk you into deeper thinking.
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You have a great idea. And like I said, great ideas chase you. You can. In this world, there are so many people who have more ideas than they have time to implement. I used to be like that. I would like, oh, my God, I have this idea, this idea. And you try to do all of them, but the best ideas are the ones that you can really focus on. And you shut out all those other things and you bring them other ideas into the thing you're trying to do. So I try to run away from a great idea and then it stalks me. It hunts you down because you're like, ah, that's going to have this problem. I'm going to put it aside and. And then all of a sudden, you know, a few days later, oh, I think I know how to solve that problem. Or I talk to somebody. And you just always kind of niggling around the edges of it. And then at some point, it's like, it just becomes. It becomes like this black hole that just sucks you. And you're like, I can't think about anything else but this. It's almost like a relationship in the world, right? You know, when you have it with a per. You find your partner, you know, you're like, wade something. And then you channel and then all of a sudden it just, it comes together, right? It's kind of like that ultimately achieve folk. See, I'm. I'm different. I just dive right in. I used to do that too. I used to dive right in. Yeah. But I learned that you need more kind of to run away from. Run away from it. And so it chases you because it makes you think harder about that. The story.