You start everything and finish nothing
Each new idea steals the last one's attention.
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Decide which of your ideas deserves the work.
A course on choosing between ideas. It covers comparing originality, usefulness and feasibility without killing the strange ones too early, and committing to development without the fear of having chosen wrong.
Open Cadence on the App Store, type the sentence when it asks what you want to learn, and answer a few setup questions. Free to start. Android testers can request early access.
Type this when Cadence asks what you want to learn
I generate plenty of ideas but struggle to decide which deserve attention. Help me compare originality, usefulness, and feasibility without dismissing unusual ideas too early.
Change any word so it fits your situation. The course is built from what you type and a few setup questions.
- Best for
- Creativity
- Prerequisites
- None. Bring the situation you have.
- Course length
- 7 to 30 lessons, sized to your goal
- Lesson pace
- About 10 minutes a day
- Format
- Read it, or play the audio
- Access
- Available on the App Store, with early features and Android testing access
Before the course is built
Setup asks about your situation first.
Lesson 1 opens on the moment you describe, and the examples use your role. For this request, expect questions like these.
- What kind of ideas pile up: projects, products, writing, business ideas?
- Do you start too many, or none because you cannot choose?
- How many candidate ideas do you have right now?
Right for now
If any of this sounds familiar, start here.
You cannot choose so you do not
The list grows and none of it becomes real.
You dismiss the odd ones too fast
Feasibility wins early and originality never gets a chance.
Course arc
Where the course goes, in order.
Cadence writes the lessons for you, so the exact path follows your answers. This is the ground a course built from this sentence covers.
01 / 06Why choosing is hard
Loss aversion, the fear of the wrong choice and the pull of the new.
Three lenses
Originality, usefulness and feasibility, and why judging all three at once fails.
Developing before judging
Giving each idea a fair minimum of work before comparing.
The unusual idea
Why strange ideas get killed early and how to protect them long enough to know.
Choosing
Making the decision, and what to do with the ones you did not pick.
Staying committed
Working through the dip when a fresh idea starts to look better.
What changes
What you will be able to do, and what you will stop believing.
You will be able to
Compare ideas fairly
Weigh originality, usefulness and feasibility without one dominating.
Give strange ideas a hearing
Develop an unusual idea enough to judge it properly.
Commit
Choose one and let the others wait without guilt.
Ideas this course corrects
The best idea is obvious once you see it
The best idea usually looks worse than the safest one at first. Development reveals it.
Choosing one idea wastes the others
Ideas keep. The ones that matter come back, often better.
Course questions
What to know before you start.
Is this a fixed course?
No. Cadence builds the course when you type the sentence and answer a few setup questions, so the lessons follow your situation. This page describes what a course built from this request covers. You see the whole path before Lesson 1.
Who is this course for?
A course on choosing between ideas. It covers comparing originality, usefulness and feasibility without killing the strange ones too early, and committing to development without the fear of having chosen wrong. It sits under Creativity in the Ideas & discovery part of the library.
Do I need any prior experience?
No. Setup asks what you already know and where you want to use it, and the course starts from there. Bring a real situation if you have one; the examples are built around it.
How long does it take?
Courses run 7 to 30 lessons of about 10 minutes, sized to what you asked for. One lesson a day is the intended pace, and you can go faster. Lessons can be read or played as audio.
Does this course award a certificate or degree?
No. Cadence is for practical self-learning and does not award accredited degrees or professional certification.
Start today
Type it, answer a few questions, open Lesson 1.
The sentence to type
I generate plenty of ideas but struggle to decide which deserve attention. Help me compare originality, usefulness, and feasibility without dismissing unusual ideas too early.
Open Cadence on the App Store, type the sentence when it asks what you want to learn, and answer a few setup questions. Free to start. Android testers can request early access.