Some ideas to keep coming often
Your mind is for getting ideas not holding ideas
Depressive Realism : Depressed people have a more accurate view of the world because they’re more realistic about how risky and fragile life is. The opposite of “blissfully unaware.”
Morgan Housel • 100 Little Ideas
Preference Falsification: People lie about their true opinions and conform to socially acceptable preferences instead. In private they’ll say one thing. In public, they’ll say another.
Behavioral Inevitability : “History never repeats itself; man always does.” – Voltaire
Morgan Housel • 100 Little Ideas
Gambler’s Conceit : People hooked on a risky behavior (e.g. gambling, smoking) reassure themselves they’ll be able to quit while ahead (before bankruptcy, lung cancer). However, their future-self tends to act a lot like them, so if they can't quit now, they likely won't quit later when they’re even deeper in.
Simplest explaination are often the best.
The Never-Ending Now - The structure of our social media feeds blinds us to history, as it causes us to live in an endless cycle of ephemeral content consumption. The structure of the Internet pulls people away from age-old wisdom
Dogma says - “this is so”
Fiction says - “this isn’t so, but let’s pretend that it is”
Hypothesis says - “perhaps this is so; let’s see if it is”
Scientific thinking is about hypothesis ...
…the more time we spend in the tower’s mirror world of abstractions and the higher we climb, the more important it is that we hold on to a fistful of mud.