The Idea Shepherd
How to slow down, reflect well, and uncover hidden insight in everything around you.
The Idea Shepherd
We’re surrounded by information. But meaning still requires attention.
And sometimes the most faithful thing you can do—for your thinking, your creativity, your inner life—is to stop moving and let one idea finish its sentence.
You don’t need a new system.
You don’t need better inputs.
You don’t need to be more original.
You might just need to stay a
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ideas are not things you get. People tend to think that ideas are things like diamonds. And then you go out and you get them and you grab them and you bring them back. But that's not what ideas are. Ideas are things that grow.... See more
Mo Willems: And so the way to make a book or a story is to have the tiniest inkling of an idea and then to plant it and you
Grace Lin • Episode 9: Where do you get your ideas? With Mo Willems — Kids Ask Authors
Read wide enough to find the gold. Then linger long enough to hold it.
If you spend your time chasing butterflies, they will fly away. But if you spend your time making a beautiful garden, the butterflies will come to you. — Leno Cainelli
Self-education is the only possible education. — Charlotte Mason
The Café Life vs. The Drive-Through Life
I’m sitting in a coffee shop with no drive-through.
You have to park.
You have to walk in.
You have to stand in line.
You have to wait while you stand.
It’s slower.
And as I’m here, something clicks.
This is the pace I want in my thinking life.
Drive-throughs are built for speed.
Get the customer in.
Get the order.
Get
