Fear of Bad Ideas

From my internet marketing mentor, Jomar Hilario. I learned about Seth Godin, the world renowned blogger and marketer and author of several books. His wisdom regarding marketing is a goldmine for those who really wants to changes their thinking especially this times where true wealth comes from the information that feeds our minds.

One of his blog post is entitled "Fear of Bad Ideas." By the way, Seth Godin's blog is the most popular marketing blog in the world. The blog post is saying to us that in order to come up with good ideas, we must willing to generate a lot of bad ones.


Creating this personal blog for me is a bad idea, although Kuya Jomar, my mentor said that one way of selling online can be started from your life story or your passion. I'm a very private person, extremely shy in a sense that I can hide all alone at home for a year because I'm so comfortable not interacting too much to people except with my parents. Secondly, I don't write but I like to play with my thinking. Deep inside I want to share my ideas, but for me creating this blog is a bad idea because I have really no experience in writing an article. And I see myself as non-English speaker, what if I write a lot of grammatical errors. Sorry, if you saw many grammatical errors with my blog posts and I extremely appreciated any correction.


By the way, Kuya is a Filipino word which is a sign of respect for an older brother. Kuya Jomar has been really my big brother in this internet marketing thing.

So we deal with the real thing, here's the content of Seth Godin's blog post.

Fear of bad ideas

A few people are afraid of good ideas, ideas that make a difference or contribute in some way. Good ideas bring change, that's frightening.

But many people are petrified of bad ideas. Ideas that make us look stupid or waste time or money or create some sort of backlash.

The problem is that you can't have good ideas unless you're willing to generate a lot of bad ones.

Painters, musicians, entrepreneurs, writers, chiropractors, accountants--we all fail far more than we succeed. We fail at closing a sale or playing a note. We fail at an idea for a series of paintings or the theme for a trade show booth.

But we succeed far more often than people who have no ideas at all.

Someone asked me where I get all my good ideas, explaining that it takes him a month or two to come up with one and I seem to have more than that. I asked him how many bad ideas he has every month. He paused and said, "none."

And there, you see, is the problem.
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