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Depending on what you're brainstorming about, you might do it differently, but here's some stuff that should work regardless
Brainstorming Guidelines:
Use a pen, markers, whiteboards, sticky notes etc. Digital mediums create constraints, and you only want productive constraints when brainstorming.
There are no bad ideas, don't judge anybody, write them ...
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This is why brainstorming or 'blue sky thinking' can be very useful when trying to break out of a rut.
Instead of analysing a possible solution, these techniques encourage you to write down many ideas - without being judgemental, so no calling out a specific idea as silly or unworkable - just write them all down and then go back and review each one.
This ...
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It's because you're impatient, lack discipline and want to hold on to your current perception of the world because you find it pleasurable. This isn't a bad thing! It just means that you have to have very good reasons as to why you should turn your back on your current reality, to embrace another.
You're like the over-weight person that initially gets ...
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There are two ways to think about this, and helpfully they reduce to the same thing.
If your happy to trust that the author has a secret then you also have to trust the author's position that 'the only way to properly digest the secret is to discover it for yourself', and thus just asking for it defeats the purpose...
On the other hand, if you don't ...
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Here's an un-answer, from my very first lecture in computer science (September 1984, CS 100, University of Waterloo). A student asked Prof. Don Cowan to clarify some detail of COBOL's syntax, and the answer was an outburst: I don't even try to remember all that; that's what the manual is for.
If this highly awarded scholar gave up memorizing three decades ...
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It sounds to me like you're skimping on the GTD step of "processing" your inbox(es). You describe adding to-do items directly into your GTD system using your keyboard shortcut to Toodledo. My understanding (and practice) of GTD uses a general purpose inbox, where all random thoughts go for later processing. Occasionally I'll have a thought that I know is ...
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I use http://getpocket.com/ (and for some things the competing http://www.instapaper.com/) which save pages for later reading - pocket goes to my rss reader where I know I will review it when I'm in more 'tuning into the world's information mode' - I trust this system and that works well. Some things that don't go into pocket - go into instapaper - because ...
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Give Zed Shaw's Hard Way series a shot -- you just start typing.
http://learncodethehardway.org/
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TRIZ has made it to the US.
The lineage goes:
TRIZ -> Isreali SIT -> ASIT -> Ford SIT -> USIT (Sickafus) -> HI (Sickafus)
TRIZ == theory of inventive problem solving
SIT == systematic inventive thinking
USIT == unified structured inventive thinking
HI == heuristic innovation
Nakagawa(Japan) has a site in english with a significant amount of ...
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