Did Edison feel this way?

Is there such a thing as a professional brainstormer?  If so, I’m thinking that might be my true calling.

I consider myself an extremely creative person and thinker.  I have a multitude of ideas, good or bad, but I have trouble finishing what I start.  After literally hundreds of these ideas don’t come to fruition, then I become immediately discouraged when I come up with another prospect for a great idea, telling myself that it will fail just like the others.

Some of the ideas/projects I’ve been excited about over the past year or two:

  • Music
    • Perennials EP (actually DELIVERED!?!?!)
    • Ben Folds musical (early draft of script/song list)
    • Star Wars / Wizard of Oz musical (just brainstormed it w/LM on the way home from Virginia)
    • Youtube cover songs channel (it’s been a while..)
    • Endless new “album concepts”
      • apple/google/microsoft nerd opera
      • write songs about other people named Ian Anderson
      • concept album about alien invasion in 2025 (2012 is just a distraction)
  • Software
    • Pilvinotes – simple notetaking app using cloud storage
      • too simple to keep my interest?
    • Pilvibrew/Brewdroid – Android (and web?) app to design/track homebrew beer recipes and batches
      • crude version of the app actually runs..
    • Habitt – web app to assist good-habit creation
    • CHET – Cheap, Healthy, Easy, Tasty – recipes web app for the rest of us,
      • bought domain name, got stuck in design phase
  • Blogs
  • Misc
    • Brew my own beer (haven’t yet)
    • Build microphone preamps (bought one instead..)

Thinking about it more, Edison didn’t work this way at all.  He tried 1,000 different methods to invent the lightbulb.  I’m trying to invent 1,000 different things with one try each.  Hmm…

Is there something wrong with me?  Am I too ambitious?  Spread myself too thin?

Maybe I should just roll with it and rename this website “Adventures of a Scatterbrain.”  I’m surprised that I even managed to finish this blog po-

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  • Robert
    If you're interested, they're selling Mr. Beer kits for a very limited time at sellout.woot for $20: http://sellout.woot.com/Defaul...
  • Just had an epiphany. I need to limit myself to projects that require me to do less rather than more:
    -Growing a beard (less shaving)
    -Losing weight (less eating)
    -Save money (less buying)
    -Meditation (less.. everything?)
  • Sandon
    Ian. It's habitforge.com , not habitforge.net.

    For most of my life I could completely relate to what you've written here. I started habitforge.com and fell in love with building it... that's all you need to do, is find one thing that you can really devote yourself to.

    Good luck!

    Sandon Jurowski
    habitforge.com
  • Whoops! sorry about that - did you catch that from a google search alert or something?

    Thanks for the comment. I'll try to focus =)
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