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Living with No Answers
  Publicerad av Emanuel Sidea

”Jag vill be dig, så långt jag nu kan, att ha tålamod med allt som är oklart i ditt hjärta och försök att älska själva frågorna som slutna rum och som böcker skrivna på ett främmande språk. Sök inte efter svaren, som inte kan ges till dig, eftersom du inte skulle kunna leva dem. Och det viktiga är: att leva allt. Att leva frågorna nu. Kanske kommer du att gradvis, utan att ens märka det, att leva en avlägsen dag in i svaret.”

Rainer Maria Rilke, “Brev till en ung poet”

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24 Questions for Evaluating Ideas
  Publicerad av Emanuel Sidea

Ask about failure
• If you failed completely or partially, what would happen?
• Are the risks and possible losses acceptable? Can they be avoided or reduced?
• If you fail, what can you salvage?
• What are the advantages and disadvantages of starting over?

Ask about success
• What criteria will you use to determine success?
• Who is essential to the outcome?
• What place, location or thing is necessary?
• What action, process, activity or event must occur?
• What can you do to make your idea even better?

Ask about the future
• Will you idea become obsolete because of evolving technologies? When may this occur?
• If your idea is a product or service, what effect will it have on people’s quality of life? Physical or mental health? Safety? Standards of living?
• If the idea catches on suddenly, can you keep up with demand?
• How might changes in these circumstances affect your idea: overseas competition, change of management, cost of materials, availability of materials?

Ask personal questions
• If it were your money, what would you do?
• How strong is your commitment to the project?
• Should you challenge any of your assumptions?
• What do you assume are the givens?
• What facts should you question?
• What are you taking for granted?

Ask about your mission
• Do you know exactly where this idea fits into the big picture?
• Does it promote your mission?
• Have you been looking at this idea from all points of view or just your own?

Ask about timing
• Is the idea timely?
• Is it too early, too much ahead of its time?

Charles Thompson, “What a Great Idea! Key Steps Creative People Take”