A quick search of the Internet would suggest that ideas can easily be developed into something great; simply "tear them apart," "keep it simple," "play with them," "find courage," "stay loose," or "ask a child." Yet when confronted with actually needing to develop a new and interesting idea, the task can quickly become quite daunting and often frustrating. Ask a student to come up with a new idea, and the first response is often panic. Ask a seasoned researcher, and the response is as likely to be "Call me later" as it is to be "When can we start?" The simple truth is that coming up with good ideas is not a simple task, and the strategies for doing so are likely to be more complex than a set of motivational catchphrases might suggest. However, useful strategies for finding interesting and researchable ideas do exist. As a way of illustrating how to develop interesting research questions, this chapter describes how my own ideas concerning goal setting, peer relationships, and teacher caring have evolved over time. In this description, strategies that have proven to be useful for motivating innovative thinking, as well as for providing new perspectives on old ideas, are presented. Although it would be tempting to claim that these strategies have always been used in deliberate fashion throughout my research career, they have not. However, they represent ways in which I have thought about and developed new ideas for research.The chapter begins with a description of three specific strategies for finding interesting ideas: challenging theoretical assumptions, documenting the published literature, and generating new variables. Next, illustrations of how to use these strategies to develop ideas in the area of goal setting, peer relationships, and teacher caring are presented. The chapter ends with reflections on some basic principles for developing interesting ideas. Throughout this chapter, the focus of discussion is on "interesting" ideas. This focus reflects the fact that a good idea is one that is interesting enough to motivate a researcher to do something with it and also is interesting enough to motivate others to pay attention to it.