Sitting down to write today, I stared at my screen for around thirty minutes.
…Not a single word typed.
My mind wandered… thinking of people, chores, tasks… and seemed to keep coming back to a task I was dreading that I’d have to do later in the day.
Thirty minutes of thinking about it was enough.
So I reminded myself that, if I wanted to have different, higher quality outputs (in thinking), I needed to interrupt that pattern with new, fresh inputs.
So I read through a few pages of a few books and finished a few thought provoking emails…
And no sooner than when I read those last few words, the idea for this post popped to mind.
Sick of an output? Change the inputs.