An Idea's .01% Chance of "Success"

There's a .01% someone will find your idea inspiring (but that's better than a 0% chance if the idea stays trapped in your head).

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Okay, so I took a gummie a few hours ago and ideas are swirling (which means I’m about to become very unfiltered). I’m sure it’s the same for you: Tons of ideas, some from today, and others from years past, are swirling in your heads all the time. Does that mean they should all be shared? Of course not. But why not? This “experiment” is about exercising the brain while exorcising ideas. It doesn’t mean the idea has to have any real-world merit. There’s a 99.99% chance these ideas won’t go anywhere. But there’s a tiny chance an idea here could spark inspiration there. And that’s good enough for me.

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Admit it, you’ve got an idea you’ve been wanting to free for a long time. Will you share it with someone today? Just get it out of your head and see what happens.

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So here are some good/terrible ideas that I just can’t help but share:

Is there a way to decrease the disgraceful amount of people who are incarcerated in this country? Is there a way to reduce recidivism (repeat offenders) all while creating a safer prison environment? Yes, but first it will take doubling the prison population…

Introducing a carceral pilot-program:

Mom-son Prison

Images prompted from Midjourney AI

For every male’s jail sentence, his mom is jailed with him. Do you think she’s going to let him come back to prison and take her with him? Not on her life, and definitely not on his. Not only that, the shame and embarrassment of bunking, eating, and spending all your time with mom will keep every man on the right side of the law.

Mom-Son Prison. The mother of all jail sentences.

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There’s only one way to make golf more exciting to watch: By making it more dangerous for the people who play it.

Introducing:

Wolf Golf

As Ultimate Fighting Championship is to boxing, Wolf Golf is to the Professional Golfers’ Association.

18 holes. 18 wolves. The lowest score and fastest runner wins.

Wolf Golf. Birdies are the last thing players are worrying about.

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Want to relive the days when you were younger and your only real chore was putting dinner on the table (because the free buffet at the bar every night was just too depressing)?

Introducing:

The Gen X First Apartment Cookbook

Appetizer recipes include:

Poor-Bastard Pretzels

• 1 Lender’s frozen pre-sliced bagel

• 1 generous squeeze of French’s yellow mustard (nothing fancy like dijon or brown)

• Put together, microwave in paper towel for 30 seconds, serve, and “enjoy”

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Entrée recipes include:

Ethnic Night

• 1 box Rice-a-RoniTM

• 1 can of La ChoyTM frozen snow peas

• Microwave the rice as you cook the snow peas in a wok with soy sauce

• Combine on plate, chew, swallow, go make mixtape

¿Donde esta el Burrito?

• 1 scoop of cooked white rice (leftover from Ethnic Night)

• 1 jar of sad, cheap grocery store salsa

• Microwave rice, pour salsa over

• Imagine it’s burrito. Minus the beans and the meat. And the cheese. And the tortilla.

An Evening for Seasonings

• Get your free cruet when you buy two packets of Good Seasons Italian Dressing

• Pour dressing in plastic bag with whatever (chicken, tofu, anything)

• Heat on your George ForemanTM Grill

• Eat at coffee table at precisely 8:30pm on Thursday night to watch Friends

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Are these ideas inane? Stupid? Silly? Great? All or none of the above?

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Todd Beeby is the Founder & Creative Advisor of Free The Idea, a company helping more people answer the call of inspiration, take creative action, and free their ideas into the world.