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Don't Let Good Ideas Get Away
Most ideas will not stand the test of time, while others might become the seed for a major project. Unfortunately, they are not easy to distinguish right away. That is why the threshold to write an idea down has to be as low as possible, but it is equally crucial to elaborate on them within a day or two. A good indication that a note has been left
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Your job is to collect good ideas. The more good ideas you collect, the more you can choose from to be influenced by.
Austin Kleon • Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Austin Kleon)
You want to generate ideas without a home in mind. Great storytellers don’t wait until it’s time to tell a story to come up with one. They collect things that inspire them along the way and review them when it’s time to tell a story.
Karen Eber • The Perfect Story: How to Tell Stories that Inform, Influence, and Inspire
Ideas tend to get away, unless you immediately record them. Creative people always carry tools with them to capture their flashes of insight.
Define a place to capture story ideas, like an app or a notebook. Don’t rely on your brain to remember it later.
Karen Eber • The Perfect Story: How to Tell Stories that Inform, Influence, and Inspire
Information that is worth saving usually falls into two buckets:
- Administrative information: The daily minutiae of our lives (e.g., grocery lists, meeting notes, to-do lists)
- Creative information: Information that fuels our projects and ideas (e.g., that perfect quote for a presentation, the scientific study that inspires your next big essay, the