Recently I was driving and listening to Terry Gross’ program Fresh Air on National Public Radio. Dave Davies was interviewing Eugene Hutz from the band Gogol Bordello. I am not going to write about the interview, though I found it fascinating. What I want to write about is acknowledging our ideas.
How often do you have an idea and think, oh, “that’s cool.” You think you will remember it, and so you just go about your day. Then later, you have a vague memory of having had an idea, but for the life you, you can’t recall what it was. This used to happen to me all the time.
Now, I carry a small notebook or my I Phone everywhere I go. During the Fresh Air program described above, I had an idea while listening to the interview. I pulled over, took out my notebook, and wrote the idea down. In so doing, I was honoring my creative process. I was saying to myself, “my ideas matter.”
This is something I learned from reading about the tools of creative people. They always carry around a notebook, a pda or tape recorder to jot down their thoughts and ideas. You can do that too!
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