Generating ideas is not like emptying a reservoir.
You don’t tap into your idea source and then drain ideas until they’re all gone.
It works more like, well, a generator.
It requires mechanical energy in, but as a result, you get electrical energy out.
You expend energy getting into the right state, meeting up with the right people, organizing the tasks of your day, staring at enough blank screens, cataloguing through the other ideas of the world until—it happens.
Your mechanical energy is converted.
And you are no longer draining a reservoir, but rather are generating a type of electrical output that lights up your mind and charges your whole body.
The reality is, if you feel like you’re “out of ideas,” it isn’t because you’ve emptied what you had—what’s really happened is your generator needs to be looked at and fixed.
This might involve a change in how you optimize your state, changing who you spend your time with, organizing your tasks in more inspiring ways, being more patient with your process, forcing yourself to get more bored, or spending more time cataloguing other idea sources.
And if your generator isn’t broken, then, you simply need to put more mechanical energy in.