Ideas are literally IN YOU…

This week, I’ve been enduring a tooth ache. It’s taken me 48 hours to find the ‘nugget’ in this, other than whining about the pain.

I’m going to write a ‘transformation’ account of a man turning into a monster. It’s in a world where there are protocol for such things, cashiering on the pandemic protocol. We were used to masks and going into the doctor’s back door, individually, on call…all sorts of things.

In this instance, Guy visits his buddy/neighbor dentist after hours and is restrained in the dental chair (protocol these days). His buddy does a quick visual, then on the xray he learns the terrible truth: this guy’s about to change. His toothache is his developing fangs.

I felt like I could have turned into a monster as they were telling me my shortcomings with my teeth at the Dentist this week. I wanted to burst from my chair and bolt through the big window to the outside. Maybe this character will do just that.

You’re New, why not get new ideas?

“About 330 billion cells are replaced daily, equivalent to about 1 percent of all our cells. In 80 to 100 days, 30 trillion will have replenished—the equivalent of a new you.” {source}

Some sources argue we’re wholly replaced every seven years, but they don’t reckon with some cells that don’t reboot and others that do so practically daily.

The point is, physically, at least at the cellular level, you’re replenishing all the time. Your ideas could, too.

How? Read voraciously. Compare notes and bounce ideas off others constantly. Be curious and ask questions. Seek insights and ideas from books and the web. Have a ‘genius hour’ with ChatGPT…I do all the above at every opportunity.

Bad Words:

Stagnation, Apathy, Atrophy…don’t let this happen to you!