This document provides tips for finding good startup ideas. It emphasizes cultivating curiosity by getting out of your normal routine, being observant, asking questions, and looking at problems with a beginner's mindset. Good startup problems are important, have clear stakeholders, boundaries and potential solutions, and can be acted on. The document recommends exploring adjacent possibilities and practicing negative capability to understand problems from different perspectives in order to identify innovative solutions.
2. Cultivate Curiosity
➡Get your head out of your screen
➡Change your routine
➡Turn up!
➡Carry your pencil
➡Make lists
➡Take Pictures
➡Sketch
➡Eavesdrop
➡Ask for stories
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5. “If I had an
hour to solve a
problem I'd
spend 55
minutes
thinking about
the problem
and 5 minutes
thinking about
solutions.”
16. Cultivate Curiosity
➡Get your head out of your screen
➡Change your routine
➡Turn up!
➡Carry your pencil
➡Make lists
➡Take Pictures
➡Sketch
➡Eavesdrop
➡Ask for stories
18. “at once it struck me what quality went
to form a Man of Achievement,
especially in Literature, and which
Shakespeare possessed so enormously -
I mean Negative Capability, that is,
when a man is capable of being in
uncertainties, mysteries, doubts,
without any irritable reaching after
fact and reason.”
John Keats
Negative Capability