You should maintain a journal of your ideas. If they're good, even if you lose interest in them, they might be useful for someone else. It would be sad if the solution to commercializing fusion power just floated away, for instance.In Bob's case, as I think I mentioned a while back, they need to put him in a sleep lab and see what's going on in his head. I don't know how common they are over there, but they're not hard to find around here. (In fact, I have a friend who sells sleep apnea breathing-assistance equipment in France, and we visited a hospital sleep lab (at Mercy Hospital in Miami) when she was here...pretty cool stuff.)
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Steve: Thats pretty much what was said. The psychologist guy said that he'd have me back in to take some sort of written test. He didn't go into much detail about it. But the woman who was filling out my chart said that she probably wouldn't see me again, as if she had concluded that if I sleep right and eat right then everything will be better.
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I'm not suggesting that it wouldn't work in bob only time and trial and error will tell that. I was speaking solely of myself. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
______________________________________________Just to clarify, when I say, "a near ecstasy of creative ideas." I don't mean all the ideas are ecstatically good or anything like that by any means but rather the process of thought is the ecstasy.
To ask me (and maybe bob, I don't know) to give this process up would be like asking you to ignore your orgasm as it happens. The process of obsessive thought is it's own shear reward.
As for writing anything down that's to slow. I've started four or five books gotten them to the outline phase and finished the story in my head and it's over. The sames holds true with photography books that I have set out.
I guess what I'm trying to say is the reward is not the end result or satisfaction in a job done but, rather, the process of thought is the reward.
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I do agree with you on this. I love my thought process, my obsessivness is brilliant! I go through so much stuff that others never even consider! Its such a fantastic experience for me sometimes, its not really something I want to get rid of.
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Altho I haven't made any money from my thought process, I have saved a lot of money for my family.
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I know what you mean and I know this is probably something no one else can understand but taking the next step is just of no interest to me even if I do want to get the rewards of bringing a product to market.
For instance I have an invention in my head that is needed in the casino industry but that's all it is and while I would like the new M6 BMW it could buy me I don't have enough interest in the next step to make anything of it. When I try that next step I just sit there starting and stopping and erasing and deleting until I move on to something else.
It's not a matter of not wanting to take it further or the desire to make something of one of my ideas or even laziness, believe it or not. It's like I reach the limit of my interest and no matter how much I want to go further there is somebody there physically holding me back. I can't explain it better than that. Maybe this'll help, I love architecture but find anything outside of designing my vision tedium to no end. Once I've figured it out in my head working on it any more is torture. I never feel any need to see it finished because it's already finished in my head.
Heres a glimpse into my head. I told my shrink, and kinda pissed her off I think, I don't need you or your reality because I've lived a thousand lives in my head. That is to say I've already taken European delivery of that M6 and driven through the Alps many times to an alarming degree of reality in my mind. What motivation is there for the real thing it would probably break down anyway. There it is for what it worth.
To make things worse I'm very much a generalist and generalist are of no value unless something is in crisis. Industry has little value for generalist nor is it conducive to their longevity within it. At least from what I've seen.
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Sorry Wally, this one is actually good enough that I keep it to myself, in case I should ever become obsessed with patenting or product development.It's not that big of loss anyway. You wouldn't make millions but it could be a foundation product for a new company. If I ever get the idea patented I may sell it to ya then. Short of that, well, I'm pretty happy where I'm at.
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Quote:I do agree with you on this. I love my thought process, my obsessivness is brilliant! I go through so much stuff that others never even consider! Its such a fantastic experience for me sometimes, its not really something I want to get rid of.That reminds me of an article written by a guy who suffered from severe bipolar disorder. He didn't want to lose the coked-up (but natural, for him) feeling he had when he was in the manic phase, but his depression was so deep in the depressive phase, that he couldn't go on like that.The feeling you get at 3 in the morning when ideas are racing through your head may be great, but how do you plan to keep a job? Do you plan to live out your days on the dole?You might be a good candidate for an ADD drug. At least it wouldn't hurt to try. You need to at least finish your portfolio, unless you'd prefer pushing a broom. But even if you do that, you need to show up for work.From what you say, it doesn't sound like they're taking your problem seriously enough.
