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Originally Posted by $5 submissions
Good points, ASM. I know new ideas are very exhilarating and definitely can recharge a person. However, this does beg the question: "How original is 'original'?" Have we reached a point mentioned in an REM song where (paraphrasing) "If one has a mouth, then one can speak about what's been talked about before... If one has a brain, then one has thought about ideas that have been thought before"? Basically, ideas are the same as anyone's ideas until they are IMPLEMENTED. Agree or disagree?
Another issue with ideas is that perhaps too much analysis leads to paralysis?
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Ideas in general are never truly original most of the time. At best they are applying a new twist or process to something that has been done over and over again. Excluding sciences and other such topics of course. The internet for example is just another twist on what Johannes Gutenberg envisioned and before him it was outsourced monk labor. Now we have people using outsourced monk labor so to speak to use the internet which is just non original ideas used in a creative and new way.
Though just having a brain does not lead to having ideas or even all the ideas possible. Some or even many are just not gifted in this area of thought.
Ideas though are nearly living creatures, when an ideas time has come it will find a way to materialize and become real. Many may have had this idea and most will not have done anything with it. Ideas can gain momentum and a life of their own. So along with an idea you need the thought process required to see what the idea is, what it can do, and how to allow it to come forth from thought.
Now in your original list you left off the one I would choose over ideas, capital, and endless energy. That being of course willpower.