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How to quickly build your idea-generating experience

How to quickly build your idea-generating experience

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How to quickly build your idea-generating experience

- Experience makes you more valuable in the workplace but it doesn't have to take years to collect it. I'll show you how you can develop experience much faster. This will improve your ability to judge ideas and also make you better at having them. Imagine I was driven into the countryside taken to the middle of a field and shown a combine harvester and asked my opinion if it was any good. Clearly there's been some mistake because I know very little about combine harvesters. I've got three main options here. The first is I can give an opinion because I don't want to look foolish. I would base my judgment on criteria I understand like the color, how new the vehicle appears to be, and how clean it is. But these criteria don't actually help me answer the question of whether it's good or not. So my opinion is pretty valueless. Sadly this kind of decision making is pretty common in business. My second option is to just say…

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