The electrical circuit model

When someone tell us that he has an idea, we imagine a light bulb coming over his head.
In the last post about ideas, I said that an idea is kind of energy that drives us to do things, and it can be weak or strong, healthy or ill. So I think a light bulb is good metaphor to think about ideas: It's suddenly come, but sometimes it can disappear as quickly as it appeared, or it turns out to be uninteresting at all.

The ingredients of an idea

Before everything, an idea is a story, something that someone can tell to others and get their attention. As I showed , an idea is a combination of a problem and a solution, and that need to be the ingredients of this story. A problem is something that the 'idea audience' can recognize and identify with. Just like the protagonist (the main character) in a movie. A solution is something that the idea audience need to believe that it can happen, that it is possible and making sense.

Connecting the wires

If we get back to the light bulb metaphor, we can imagine the problem and the solution as the wires that connect the bulb to the electricity and turn it on. We need both two wires to be intact and not torn and also connected to the power source.
In this case I think power source is our reality. While the problem comes from the reality, and the solution need to get to the reality, and the idea itself hovering somewhere in the air. When everything connected and described well, it has light.
I draw this illustration to describe my metaphor

So now we can describe how it look like when something happened to the idea.
One scenario is that the red wire (the problem) get unglugged from it source (the reality) and then suddenly our bulb (the idea) turned off. It occurs when we try to get our audience attention to our new idea but they ignore us. They can't identify with the problem, so they are not interested on what we have to tell them. We can say that the audience attention is the reality. That the matter we work with. We need to understand that and make changes in our story until it touching the ground - our audience attention.
Here I illustrate the situation that our problem hover above the ground, it disconnected from the audience and because of that our bulb stay in complete darkness.

The other case of disconnection is where we can't manage to get to the ground with the second wire, the blue one. It represent the scenario when our solution sound a bit unreal, or totally unreal... the distance from the ground represent how much it far from the common sense.

Now, after we have the "electrical circuit model" as a way of describing a dynamics of an idea we can ask ourselves - What can we do when the bulb goes out, How can we reconnect it to the ground and get light back. On that I'll talk about next time.

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