Ah, well, for most papers that spark an idea in me, the idea isn’t simply an extension of the paper. It’s a question tangentially related which probes at my own frontier of understanding.
I’ve always found that a boring lecture is a great opportunity to brainstorm because my mind squirms away from the boredom into invention and extrapolation of related ideas. A boring paper does some of the same for me, except that I’m less socially pressured to keep reading it, and thus less able to squeeze my mind with the boredom of it.
As for coming up with ideas… It is a weakness of mind that I am far better at generating ideas than at critiquing them (my own or others). Which is why I worked so well in a team where I had someone I trusted to sort through my ideas and pick out the valuable ones. It sounds to me like you have a better filter on idea quality.
Ah, well, for most papers that spark an idea in me, the idea isn’t simply an extension of the paper. It’s a question tangentially related which probes at my own frontier of understanding.
I’ve always found that a boring lecture is a great opportunity to brainstorm because my mind squirms away from the boredom into invention and extrapolation of related ideas. A boring paper does some of the same for me, except that I’m less socially pressured to keep reading it, and thus less able to squeeze my mind with the boredom of it.
As for coming up with ideas… It is a weakness of mind that I am far better at generating ideas than at critiquing them (my own or others). Which is why I worked so well in a team where I had someone I trusted to sort through my ideas and pick out the valuable ones. It sounds to me like you have a better filter on idea quality.