What I'm working on is not just catching butterflies of the
mind....
It is about BOTTLING THE LIGHTNING!
I set up a thought collecting station by my dresser. It is
simply a pen, and a small stack of index cards.
Just a few minutes ago, I had a major brainstorm. I would have
lost it completely, if I didn't have a thought collecting
station available. Within three minutes, I had filled up nine
index cards each with completely separate ideas that are related
to what I am working on but much different from each other.
And it was after that, but I realized it's not just catching
butterflies of the mind and putting them behind me in a place
where they are safe and useful and alive, but it is about
catching lightning bolts and putting them in bottles.
The ideas that are fleeting are the lightning bolts. And the
index cards are the bottles. It doesn't have to be index cards,
it is whatever you have at hand. Right now, I am using my phone.
If I didn't have my phone, I would be catching this on a card or
a piece of paper or a whiteboard or wherever I had a place
Outside of my head to get it down so that I can retrieve it
later without cluttering up my brain.
