Idea Husbandry: Toward a Global Suggestion Box

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By Gregory Wright

How many of us, while reading an article, using a product, engaging in conversation, or falling asleep, have experienced that delightful bott-from-the- blue flash of inspiration, the unbidden but marvelous coming to mind of an original idea? And how many of us have pondered H briefly, perhaps mentioning it to a friend, then consigned it to oblivion, assuming that if it really is a good idea then someone must already be doing it, or deciding that it would be fruitless to pursue it without certain resources?


IDEA HUSBANDRY There is a tremendous quantity of creative cognition going on out there. Ideas, insights, proposals and propositions which may be valuable to society come into people's minds by the millions. Many of them are available for development, free but for the price of giving public credit where credit is due. Their creative originators cant pursue or develop them, because they lack the expertise, the confidence, the time, or the money. The result is ideational waste, and the thought came to me that we need to help one another cultivate ideas. I came to feel that "idea husbandry" is an idea whose time is at hand. My dictionary defines "husbandry" as "the care of a household" as well as "the scientific control and management of a branch of farming." So it doesnl seem that far-fetched to stretch the notion of "raising something from a seed" to include raising ideas from conception to completion. One approach to this would be to organize a "global suggestion box", I invite all of you to consider yourselves members of a team. Well brainstorm about it; we'll attract interest in it; and together we'll implement it.