If you are struggling with ideas for your content creation, here is how can you become an idea generation machine.

Secret #1: Understand that nothing is original

There is a quote from a French novelist Airde

"Everything that needs to be said, has already been said. But because no one was listening, it needs to be said again".

Most of the stuff you see on social media is not original. If you think it is, most of the chances are that you probably don't know about its sources.

Secret #2: Steal like an artist

There is a very good book from the writer, Austin Kleon named "Steal Like an Artist".

In this book, he talks about how can you steal artworks, piece of contents, and ideas from its original sources, legally and ethically.

Stealing doesn't mean you have to copy everything from its original sources.

Stealing simply means you need to copy ideas from others in your own niche, and add your own flavour. own personality, own voice on top that.

To apply this framework of stealing like an artist, you need to apply the coal mining technique.

What is the coal mining technique?

Actually, coal mining technique discusses that you need to go find some idea treasure, particularly Twitter, or some successful person in your niche.

You will find a lot of content and advices.

For example, if you are an entrepreneur, you go to Twitter and find some successful entrepreneurs , check their content and what are they talking about You can simply steal from their ideas.

One another good source is indiehackers.com. If you go to the indie hackers, you will find a lot of got ideas on front page

Special thanks to Ali Abdaal, whose strategies I am talking about and successfully stolen.