The Idea Shepherd
How to slow down, reflect well, and uncover hidden insight in everything around you.
The Idea Shepherd
Deep thinkers don’t dwell in Kindle popular highlights.
They wander, explore, and feast where others don’t even look.
To and Fro
Most of the time when we feel stuck, it’s not because we don’t have ideas.
It’s because our ideas aren’t moving.
Today I looked up the word circulation, and one part of the definition grabbed me by the collar:
“Movement to and fro or around something.”
To and fro.
It feels like the rhythm of thinking itself.
Ideas come to you — in the shower,
... See more"Normality is a paved road: it's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it." — Vincent Van Gogh
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Rachna Ghiyasubstack.comDon’t treat creativity like a playlist. Treat it like vinyl.
Sure — you can lift the needle. You can hunt for the “good part.” But it’s clumsy. Disruptive. It breaks the moment.
Vinyl invites you to let the whole record play.
To sit inside the sound. To hear the layers. To stay long enough for meaning to surface.
The gold ideas aren’t in the skip.
... See moreBread & Seed (A Practice for Thought Stewardship)
I came across a passage recently that uses a simple picture:
Some things are given as bread.
Some things are given as seed.
Bread is for nourishment.
Seed is for planting and sharing.
If you eat the seed, you lose the future harvest.
If you store the bread, it goes stale.
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