If You Want to Catch a Fish, You Have to Go Fishing

by Max Temescu

British songwriter Noel Gallagher understands that if you want to benefit from your next big idea, you have to clock the time and catch it first. In an interview with the Rolling Stone, Gallagher discusses how his songwriting still has the same urgency as when he first starting out:  

I still think tomorrow might be the day that I write the greatest song of all time. It’s like going fishing. The guitar is your fishing rod, and if I’m not fishing for that song, f*cking Bono will get it, and if he’s not, Chris Martin will. And f*ck those two guys, because they’ve got enough. We’re all fishing in the same river, and it’s cutthroat, baby.

Independently developed ideas simultaneous occur all the time. For example, Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray filed a patent for the telephone within a mere three hours of each other. In 1922, there were 148 major inventions and discoveries accounted for that were separately developed by two or more groups. If you aren’t working on the next top of the charts song, someone else surely is. The only way to benefit from it is to catch it first, even if you have to stand in a freezing cold river. Go get your fishing rod.

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