Good Ideas Aren't Enough—You Need Execution Ideas Too

25 Aug 2025 #misc

Since last year, I’ve made a habit to write 10 ideas a day.

That’s a concept I learned from James Altucher. I even followed some of the exercises from “How to Become an Idea Machine,” a book with dozens of prompts to exercise your idea muscles.

Writing those 10 ideas has taught me we need plenty of bad ideas to find a good one. And once we find a good idea, we need ideas to execute it.

Did you come up with a book idea? Great. The next step is writing another 10 to (possibly) make that book a reality. Do you need research? Do you need to compile scattered blog posts? Do you need to test subjects first on social media?

This applies beyond writing books. These days, a neighbor decided to change our main door lock. It was rusty and in poor shape. That was a good idea. But he didn’t let everybody else know and didn’t have enough key copies for everyone. That was bad execution. Good ideas need good execution ideas too.