Akira The Don, James Altucher - Idea Muscle lyrics

I realized this way back
First everybody says, "Oh
Ideas are a dime a
Dozen execution is everything"
And they just assume that at
Some point they'll be walking
Around and lightning will strike
Them and they'll think
"Oh my gosh people should share cars
And I'll make an app in
The middle to connect people with cars
And I'll call it Uber"
No, ideas don't really work like that
Nor does execution work the
Way most people think people think
I'm gonna take this great idea and
Now I'm going to do it
The doing it, it can happen in 1
000 different ways
People don't realize there's a whole spectrum
Of execution ranging from really


Really bad so that an idea
Will fail or really
Really good so that even a bad idea
Might have a chance for success for success
Having ideas is like a muscle
Having ideas is like a muscle

Idea muscle, idea muscle, idea muscle
Idea muscle having ideas is like a muscle
Idea muscle, idea muscle, idea muscle
Idea muscle
Try to practice having 10 ideas a day
Idea muscle, idea muscle, idea muscle
Idea muscle it doesn't have to be a good
Idea or a bad idea
Idea muscle, idea muscle, idea muscle
Idea muscle
But it keeps that idea muscle in practice

If you're sick and you lie
In bed for two weeks
You might actually need physical
Therapy to walk again
Your leg muscles atrophy that fast
It's the same thing with ideas
If you don't have ideas every day
Your idea muscle is not gonna get bigger
It might atrophy and so I try to practice
I'll come up with a topic and I'll try
To practice having 10 ideas a day around
Each day'll be a different topic
But I'll try to have 10
Good ideas around that topic
Now they won't be good ideas
Because you can't have 3
650 good ideas a year
But I try to make sure they're as
Good as they possibly could be
I've been doing this every since
I wanted to network
And I'm not a very good networker
I wanted to ask my heroes
Can I buy you a cup of
Coffee and pick your brain?
So I wrote to 20 people
They didn't even say no
None of them responded
Why would they respond?
Warren Buffett's not gonna say
Hold everything clear up my schedule, Gladys
He's never gonna even respond to me
He's gonna think I'm an idiot
So then I started writing down
I started researching everyone's business
And I started writing
Down 10 ideas for Warren Buffett's business
10 ideas for this person's business
10 ideas for this person's business
And then I would send those
Ideas to the people and I would say, "Hey
You don't have to respond to this i
Don't want anything, but I really
Admire you and your business
Here's 10 things where I think
Your business could improve"
And then I started getting responses, and
It actually changed my life
Some of those responses
And so I started doing it every single day
Without fail since then

Idea muscle, idea muscle, idea muscle
Idea muscle having ideas is like a muscle
Idea muscle, idea muscle, idea muscle
Idea muscle
Try to practice having 10 ideas a day
Idea muscle, idea muscle, idea muscle
Idea muscle it doesn't have to be a good
Idea or a bad idea
Idea muscle, idea muscle, idea muscle
Idea muscle
But it keeps that idea muscle in practice

Idea muscle ideas everyday
Idea muscle 10 ideas a day
Idea muscle ideas everyday
Idea muscle

Idea muscle
I mean, I shouldn't say every single day
Some areas when I kind
Of dropped my discipline
I stopped doing it and I
Immediately felt the consequences
And now I do it every single day
It doesn't have to be a good
Idea or a bad idea
But it keeps that idea muscle in practice
And usually by number seven
It's like a workout
Like, my brain is sweating
I keep counting like, did I hit 10 yet?
And then eight, nine, 10 are the hardest
And it takes me 10% of the
Time is the first seven
And the other 90% of the
Time it's the last three
Then I know it's a decent list