The power of an idea

Wishing you a happy Monday.
An idea is "Something, such as a thought or conception, that potentially or actually exists in the mind as a product of mental activity," (source: Free online dictionary).
we are creatures  of thought and we assess our thoughts before we act. It is during the process of assessing our thoughts that ideas occur. It is important that we differentiate between assessing our thoughts and acting on our instincts. We sometimes act from instinct which is a given response to a stimuli. Animals act from instinct and can always be expected to behave the exact same way to a given stimuli. Man because he is given to thought can formulate how he will respond.
Ideas does not have material on which they are built but it is impossible for a man to conceive an idea which he is incapable of bringing into being. The idea is that what a man's mind can conceive he can also achieve. It becomes a matter of willingness to persist.
I grew up in Jamaica where the game most loved was cricket. A test match lasted five or six days and in the end quite often there were no results because the match ended in a draw. Cricket to me is a game about patience ,skill and endurance. Cricket to me make an interesting comparison with American sports which lasts most times at most two hours and demand that in the end there must be a result.
Pursuing ideas to me is similar to a game of  test cricket. It call for patience, endurance and failure and at the same time it demands overcoming the best that the opposing side has. Ideas cannot be viewed as demanding immediate results but once you begin to pursue an idea it is going to spawn other ideas. You will then have to decide whether you focus on the one or incorporate the other ideas as you move a thought or concept from being mental to something tangible.