translated from Spanish: What is the favorite place for entrepreneurs to think about big ideas

legend has it that the Apple that fell from the tree and hit the head of the British scientist Isaac Newton was inspired to create the theory of gravity.
Experiencing that moment of illumination or revelation is like dream come true between entrepreneurs.
“There is the myth that great ideas fall from the sky, landing on your skirt and you become billionaire the following day. Ta-chan! This almost never happens”, says the founder of LinkedIn, Reid Hoffman.
In reality, most of the great ideas do not arise as well and it is rare that a businessman will become successful immediately.
“It is more likely that you’re already looking for. If you want to find your great business idea, you have to constantly look for it”, says the creator of the social network oriented to companies, business and employment in its ‘Masters of Scale’ podcast, which is broadcast weekly.
However, there are moments that favor ideas from appearing or environments.
“What is your favorite place to think big?” asked Hoffman to their guests, ranging from technological, to successful entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial leaders.
This is what I responded.
Brian Chesky ImagesUn Getty Museum is the favorite place of the founder of Airbnb for thinking big ideas. Which one? Brian Chesky is an American millionaire entrepreneur, co-founder and director of Airbnb accommodation Exchange service.
His favorite place to think about a great idea? The Museum of the family Walt Disney, in San Francisco, United States, which recreates the private life of an entrepreneur and a pioneer in the American animation industry.
Mark Zuckerberg Getty ImagesEl garden is an inspirational place for Zuckerberg.Mark Mark Zuckerberg is the creator of Facebook and the entrepreneurial younger appearing on the Forbes billionaires list.
Zuckerberg told instead to think of big ideas is your lawn, walking in circles.
Caterina Fake Getty ImagesCaterina Fake leverages the nights to think. Caterina Fake is an enterprising web sites Flickr and Hunch co-founder American.
The entrepreneur said that it is not a place where you think in big ideas, but rather a moment.
” I wake up in very strange hours, I have this lapse of time between 2:00 and 5:00, which I think and work a lot,”he said in the podcast.
Peter Thiel Getty ImagesPeter Thiel chooses nature to think big. Peter Thiel is an entrepreneur and co-founder of PayPal. He currently directs the Fund Clarium Capital and was one of the first investors in Facebook.
The site that chooses to think big is beautiful somewhere in nature.
Bill Gates Getty ImagesCaminar is one inspiration for Gates.Bill Bill Gates is the co-founder of Microsoft and the second richest man of the world.
The billionaire says that walking and driving his car are the perfect moments to think.
Sheryl Sandberg Getty ImagesSheryl Sandberg prefers exercising for great ideas. Sheryl Sandberg is another successful millionaire. He is an economist, author and current operational Director of Facebook.
Your place to think big is while exercising on the treadmill.
John Elkann Getty ImagesDefinitivamente nature is very important to John Elkann.John Elkann is an italiano-estadounidense businessman, grandson of Fiat founder and director of the Exor group, which manages among other businesses for the automotive.
Your favourite place?
“In nature, because on the one hand, really makes you land to see the incredibly special it is.” On the other hand, you encouraged to think big, to dream and be ambitious”, Elkann told the podcast”Masters of Scale”.
Reid Hoffman Getty ImagesPara Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn, there is a place and a way to achieve great ideas. Finally, Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn said to have two ways of thinking big.
“The first is to talk to other people, one at a time. I ask you to tell me all the reasons why you believe that my idea will fail. This allows me to inspire and transform it into something that can be successful”, he describes.
In terms of places, Hoffman says that his preferred to think of big ideas site is a coffee or some new space.
“They have to have something allowing me to focus on a page purely in white, on a new idea.”
And you, do you have a place to think about big ideas?
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Original source in Spanish