{"id":1949,"date":"2012-09-12T10:20:25","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T15:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/?p=1949"},"modified":"2012-09-11T14:21:07","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T19:21:07","slug":"where-good-ideas-go-to-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/?p=1949","title":{"rendered":"Where good ideas go to grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lifehacker.com <a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/5941997\/defrag-your-brain-with-a-spark-file\">posted recently<\/a> on a way of collecting and maintaining ideas from a different perspective. I&#8217;ve read about ways of using brainstorm mapping, but they always seemed to organized for my brain to wrap itself around. This new perspective is a bit less organized from a traditional perspective, which tends to fit the way I think a bit more.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1951\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/thinking.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1951\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1951\" src=\"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/thinking-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/thinking-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/thinking.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1951\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wadem\/2808468566\/\">wadem<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>It involves creating a list of ideas as them come, so the list is kept chronologically rather than categorically through related terms. A <a title=\"Want to be more creative?\" href=\"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/want-to-be-more-creative\/\">previous post<\/a> on creativity would suggest that placing things together that are related may not always be the best way of organizing ideas for creativity. The list is kept and then reviewed once a month from top to bottom where ideas are either added on, or spark new ideas to be placed on the list. It may also be possible that two or more ideas on the list can be combined to create new ideas.<\/p>\n<p>The post also recommends readings by Steven Johnson, the developer of this method (called the Spark File):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Invention-Air-Steven-Johnson\/dp\/B0045EPCPA\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1347381789&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=the+invention+of+air&amp;tag=collecti0d-20\">The Invention of Air<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Where-Good-Ideas-Come-Innovation\/dp\/1594485380\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1347381865&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=where+good+ideas+come+fromhttp:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Invention-Air-Steven-Johnson\/dp\/B0045EPCPA\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1347381789&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=the+invention+of+air&amp;tag=collecti0d-20\">Where Good Ideas Come From<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/p\/8d6e7df7ae58\">Steven Johnson&#8217;s original post on the Spark File<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do you find the brainstorm map works for you? How do you organize your ideas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lifehacker.com posted recently on a way of collecting and maintaining ideas from a different perspective. I&#8217;ve read about ways of using brainstorm mapping, but they always seemed to organized for my brain to wrap itself around. This new perspective is a bit less organized from a traditional perspective, which tends to fit the way I think a bit more. It<a href=\"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/?p=1949\"> Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[167,166],"tags":[169,52,29,26,70],"coauthors":[15],"class_list":["post-1949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-reblogged","tag-creativity","tag-human","tag-journey","tag-mindfulness","tag-self-growth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/thinking.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1949"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1956,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions\/1956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1949"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=1949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}