Action #054

Don't be an ideas killer

 
This action has been done 5,168 times which means 5,168 ideas haven't been shot down and went on to live long and happy lives.
 
 

It sucks when someone tramples all over something you suggest. So instead of knocking ideas down, spot the good in them, or at least what you can do to make them better. Helpful ways to do this do NOT include the following:

'I think what Brian meant to say is this...',

'I love it. But what do I know? I'm as mad as a lorry.'

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  • Adam Pick did this action

    Give Voice

    i have never been somone who puts others ideas down, although i have frequently killed my own ideas in the past, recently, i challenged this, and in discussions around services i would like to see provided, made a suggestion that led to offers of training, and volunteering. This is rather good for the confidence, so yeah, dont kill ideas, give voice to them, it cant kill us. 25 May 2010, 23:08
  • abdul abdul did this action

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    i have done it bare times
     25 November 2009, 08:46
  • Melissa Melissa did this action

    No idea killer

    I work with kids---who are so full of great ideas. It's so much fun to hear those ideas and to explore them further...you never know where they will lead to. I always try to be encouraging when anyone brings up new ideas---that takes a lot of guts to do that. 27 October 2009, 04:38
  • Acorn Literacy Acorn Literacy and friends did this action and got 11 people to do it too

    We did this action in our Acorn Literacy class at Canterbury College and came up with a killer idea

    Our idea is that college should provide students with second hand laptops to do their homework on. The computers would be lent to the students on a short term loan basis. Computers would be provided by charities or bought with lottery funding. The Student Union class representatives (Dennis Altunay and James Tarvit) will be suggesting this idea at the next Student Union meeting. Good luck to them 21 October 2009, 12:21
  • mimi mimi did this action

    try something else


    every so often, try something that you haven't done before. this doesn't have to be anything extreme, unless you've always wanted to go skydiving! sometimes just walking down the street parallel to the one you always walk down on your way to the busstop is great because you get to see something unexpected, like someone's amazing front garden. read or go to a movie about something you'd never thought about. wear something else - I recently put on a quilted waistcoat and it was really good fun! have a cup of a different kind of tea. even small things like that stop you from slipping into apathy and complacency.     03 March 2009, 05:19

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