I can’t be the only one who suffers from incomplete thoughtness - that infuriating complaint whereby you have part of an idea, but never seem to have the time to get round to the rest of it. It’s something all geniuses have to put up with suppose. And lazy people. Those of us, I mean, who don’t have the patience to…
finish what we’ve started.
I’m not a completer/finisher, according to Belbin team-role analysis, and I don’t dispute that. I’m always starting things and leaving them half-done (if that). At least I’m leaving them incomplete in order to start something new, useful, and exciting. I mean it’s not as if I’m just giving up. Or is it?
Perhaps I just worry that if I get round to completely realising a thought, I’ll only end up finding out how dumb that thought was. Or maybe I just struggle sometimes to keep pace with my sheer creativity and inventiveness.
Or maybe, just maybe, the answer lies somewhere between the two. Or on a point of intersection, joining those two strands, and my general idleness. I wish I knew, but I don’t quite have time to work it out right now. At least I have somewhere to put all these half-baked idea from now on.
1 Comment on Half-thoughts, half-baked
Pay no attention to this man: http://www.geekonstun.com/mt/archives/thinkingcaps070105.html
The first half of thoughts is much more valuable than the second half of thoughts. For example, Newton: apple falls, first half - ow!, second half - gravity. Ow! summarizes neatly the whole of human existence. Working out a theory of gravity just makes more work.
Although being preyed on by the thought finishing scavengers may be unpleasant, starting something you can’t finish is the mark of a person with vision (or the mark of someone who will soon be flat on his back in the pub car park). It’s more noble (when you share ideas, everyone wins!), it’s not glory seeking (the thought finishers get all the glory), and it’s safer. If the idea takes flak, you can pretend you never really thought much of it anyway.