Great ideas rarely come from nowhere. More often they grow out of small curiosities. A small curiosity leads to a small project. That project expands your understanding of a subject, the people around it, and the problems worth solving. And eventually you may stumble upon something truly meaningful - something you could never have planned or invented from scratch.

Paul Graham, the founder of Y Combinator, said it best: "If you sit down and try to come up with a startup idea, you'll probably come up with a bad one that sounds plausible enough to waste a lot of time on."

He should know - he's seen hundreds of the world's best startups take shape.

Instead of trying to force a great idea, immerse yourself in what you really care about. Dive into problems that matter to others, explore them deeply, and do it alongside people you admire. That's where real insight happens - through movement, not meditation.

Once you're in motion, your brain shifts into a different mode - a creative flow. That's when ideas start to pop up uninvited. One of them might become a side project. And maybe, just maybe, one of those side projects will become something much bigger than you ever imagined.

That's how Microsoft, Apple, Google and Facebook started.

Not from a whiteboard full of ideas - but from doing.