New and better doesn’t come until there’s room.
If our minds are filled with old, redundant ideas then maybe it’s time to clear some space.
How?
Write more of your ideas down. Even (especially) the old, redundant ones.
The key here is that remembering takes up thinking space, thus consuming the exact space you need to generate new, better ideas.
Furthermore, it’s often the case that ideas piggyback on each other.
So, whatever time you spend trying to remember initial ideas, is in turn stifling the ideas that want to piggyback off those initial ideas.
Don’t rely on memory.
In paper and pens; thumbs and screens—we must trust.
Keep your headspace clean and clear and ready for whatever you might think of next.