636: Capture Ideas without Overthinking
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What if your blank notebook became the engine of your business growth? Collin shares the two phrases he writes in every notebook—“Nothing doesn’t go in here” and “The first page is profound”—to defeat perfectionism and capture ideas without judgment. He explains why our brains are processors, not hard drives, and how offloading thoughts reduces mental fatigue. Drawing on James Dyson’s 5,000+ prototypes, he shows how creativity thrives through small, physical iterations. Finally, he gives a simple cadence: capture daily, review weekly, and treat the page as a workspace—not a performance.
Main topics:
Idea capture vs. perfectionism
Brain as processor, not storage
Notebook phrases and mindset
Iteration modeled by Dyson
Weekly review for execution
Main takeaway: “You have to view the blank page as a workspace, not a performance.”
That mindset shift frees you from making every idea perfect before it exists. Capture without judgment today, then analyze and refine later. When you separate capture from critique, your creativity keeps flowing and momentum builds. Start with one page, one idea, every day—and watch small iterations stack into real change.
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Pet sitter confessional, physical notebook, idea capture, mental clutter, creativity, business growth, leadership, iterative process, James Dyson, mental fatigue, self-leadership, idea implementation, brain dump, Trello board, composition notebook
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Collin
Collin 00:00
Collin, hello and welcome to pet sitter confessional, an open and honest discussion about life as a pet sitter today, we're brought to you by our friends at pet sitters associates and our amazing Patreon supporters. Every month, they give some money because they believe that the show provides them value, and they want to support and keep it going. If that sounds like you or you're interested in learning about all the ways that you can support the show. Go to pet sitter, confessional.com/support, ever since graduate school, I've had a ritual with my notebooks. I am a physical notebook taker. I write with them all the time. I have one with me at every step of the day, because I like to write things down on the very cover of every notebook I write, nothing doesn't go in here. And then I flip to the very first page, the very first blank page, and I write the first page is profound. I forget where I first came across this, but I began doing it because I used to carry around a notebook with me, and it would stay blank for months and months and months, and I would never actually write anything down it. I just carried it around with me. What I realized is that every time I had an idea and I'd look at my notebook and I go, Okay, it's supposed to go in the notebook, I had a little bit of fear or anxiety, right? I had a little bit of questioning about what I was going to write down and whether it was worthy or whether it was important enough. And I'd be was hesitant about putting it in there. And so instead of writing something down, an idea, a concept, a new experiment, I wanted to try, I would just try and remember it, keep it in my head. And I like to say my mind is like a steel trap. It is rusted shut, and so therefore I'd forget about it, or it go away and and I would never actually implement or or pursue the thing that I had interest in in the beginning. And so when I started to write these in the notebook, it really changed my perception of not just how I, yes, how I use a physical notebook, but really how I started to view my own ideas and my own concepts, and this has really been beneficial. And Megan and I started our business, and we've launched, and we've done all of these various things. And so that's why I want to talk about, I want to talk about the importance of changing our mindset around our ideas, and how a physical notebook can be important in that this is important for business owners. It's been important for Megan and I was going through this process because through this process, because it helps us frame ideas. It helps me, whenever I have an idea, write it out and I make it physical, that's what happens. You have the general kind of ethereal concept in your brain. When you write it down, you're actually able to process it in a different way. It engages different parts of your brain in understanding and seeing what's before you you know creativity is a superpower. It's your superpower. You're a business owner. You're constantly changing, adapting. You're constantly trying to figure out new things that that newness, that's creativity. Creativity doesn't just happen in one spot, though. It takes iterations. It takes expressing it. It takes putting it out into the physical world. We're not meant to store our ideas, and that's really important. We are not meant to store ideas. We're meant to create them. We're meant to generate them, and then they need to go live somewhere else. I'm not talking about storing memories. That's that's something different. But when you have a creativity, creative thought, when you think of something new that's not supposed to stay in your brain, that has to get out in the world, that's the only way creativity and things change is when we put it out into the world. Whether that's a new idea for a new way of integrating fear free practices into your business. Or maybe you have a new protocol for training your employees. Or maybe it's a brand new service entirely that you're looking to launch. If that stays in our brains for too long, it just doesn't go anywhere, the first step in that is to write it out. Is to put it down somewhere, I'm a nerd, so I kind of like to think of the brain as a better processor than a hard drive. Right? Your brain is meant to be processing and chunking through and generating things, not necessarily storing them all the time. When we keep these ideas in our heads, this actually creates more mental fatigue, because now it's in my head, and what am I doing? Well, I'm worrying about forgetting it. Okay, remember the thing, remember the thing, remember the thing. I'm worried about it going away. And so I spend more time preoccupied about those ideas and thoughts that I had, if I would have just written them down. So it creates that mental fatigue, that mental burden, it also creates a lot of missed opportunities, because you aren't able to engage with them immediately. They sit there for way too long. And instead of actually being able to iterate on something, the idea kind of comes and goes and then is gone. And then it also creates some some creative stag. Nation. One thing that I have seen, both as a graduate student and then in my job for a while and I was running a business, is that I'm more creative the more I do things. If I stop working on a project, if I stop my forward momentum, it completely washes away all of my creativity, the best creativity for me, at least, comes from putting something down and then tweaking it one time, and then tweaking it another and another and another. Think of it like James Dyson. Whenever he sat in his little Hutch or his little garage in his backyard, he had no power, no electricity, nothing. He sat there and for 15 years, he created 5126 prototypes for his vacuum. And on that 5,127th version, he got it right, but it took small iterations and little implementations and experimentation and trying little, itty bitty things, it kept the creative process going. If he had tried to do all that in his head or or not, make something, make his idea physical. It would have stagnated. It would not have gone anywhere. I would also argue that capturing our ideas again, this is what we're doing. I have an idea in my brain. I have a concept. I need to do something with it. I have to capture it. Has to go somewhere. This is really an act of leadership, both a self leadership act and a leadership of others. And here's why this is because it gives you clarity with what you're thinking. When you have an idea, when you have a direction that you want to go before you can share it with others, you have to be absolutely clear on what it is and what the value it brings to the company and to the person. If we can't communicate this, if it's muddy, if it's unclear, if it's kind of short sighted in nature, not fully thought through, this is where a lot of confusion happens. People don't get on board for this? Yeah, it's important for our team, if we have them, it's way more important for myself, though, when I am trying to change something about me or get myself excited about something, if the details aren't there, if it's not lined out, if it's just kind of this vague idea and concept, it's harder to get behind and throw weight, money, time and resources at something that is ethereal versus something that you can see and understand. And there's a lot of reasons why we don't do this, though. We don't write down our ideas. We don't make it manifest in front of us, for a lot of reasons. For me, I know there are three really big ones. The first one is that I believe that it has to be good, and I'm gonna go ahead. It has to be perfect. I'm not gonna write it down until it's absolutely perfect. And what this does is it stunts us and limits us. The absolute worst time to critique and dive into your idea is the very moment you have it. And too often that I know that's what I do, that's what we do, especially as entrepreneurs and business owners, it's easy to come up with idea, but it's even easier to think of the 100 reasons why it wouldn't work and why it's dumb. And so instead, we go, Well, that's an idea. Oh no, no, no, there's no that won't work and it's too much money, and I don't know how I'd get somebody to do that. And no, that doesn't fit the schedule. So anyway, I'm gonna move on, and then it gets buried under all the no's. And so instead of thinking of opportunities, thinking big picture, thinking of ways forward. We bury ourselves in negativity. It's not going to be good enough. It's not going to be perfect, so I might as well not even try it. I might as well even do it. And this really shows the limitations of our thinking. When we think of an idea for the first time and we say, well, that's not perfect, so I can't do it again. Going back to that creative, iterative process of, okay, well, maybe the first instance, the first concept, was not perfect. How would I make it better? What limitations do I currently have that I need to get out of the way so that I can actually implement this? I know a big one is okay. I need to grow a team. Okay, well, that sounds impossible, and I don't have everything in place, so I can't do it. Okay. Well, what would you need to make it workable for you? How would you want to schedule, what trainings would you need to have in place to make that forward momentum and actually accomplish that goal? That's what we're doing. When we're writing it out, we're able to see and pick and actually design something that would work for us. The second common fear that comes up is, what if this flops? What if this fails? And I'm judged for that,
Collin 09:34
this is a big one, especially because in business, failures are more often than not, very public. I'm going to launch a big campaign. I'm going to do a big spree where I'm pushing for for a lot of brand new dog walking clients and a lot of this stuff. And I keep posting about how I'm limited availability and only for a certain amount of time. And I'm posting, I'm posting, I'm reaching out, I'm networking, I'm talking to all these people. I'm doing this big push, and nothing comes of it. And. I'm worried about not getting things. What if nobody responds? What if nobody signs up? What if nobody takes the mail, or what if nobody takes my my lead magnet on my website, it can feel like it's very public. And to this, I will just say it's only very public and and, and like, aware like, from you, you're the only one that's really paying attention to this. Nobody else is. Their lives are very busy. They scroll, they see something for point two seconds, and they're moving on to the next thing. They're not putting all the pieces of the puzzle together. And so instead, what this really is is, what if I'm What if I'm a failure? What if I am not able to accomplish this? And so instead, we have to flip this and say A, not only is nobody else looking and paying attention, but B, the only way that I know what works and what doesn't is if I try things, I'm only going to know what kind of marketing message connects with my ideal client. If I try it, if I try it and I try it again and again. And the third common fear that comes up from not wanting to put ideas down. And you know that fear of, kind of like the blank page again, of like, okay, I don't want to write this down. I don't want to move forward with this. That third fear is someone else could do this better. I know you've had this thought, oh, let's say you have an idea to start some cat enrichment visits. And you know, kind of generally what it would look like. But you are also aware of that cat business that's a couple states over that you follow on Instagram, or maybe is actually just local to you. You have coffee with that person and you think, man, that person, they're so amazing with cats, the way they talk about it, the way they post online, the way they could, the way they could actually do this, and they actually have that training. Man, they would be so much better at this. Why would I even bother? And this really gets into this level of imposter syndrome of I'm not good enough. I'm not worthy enough to do this. And so instead again, of going, Okay, here's my idea. I want to offer cat enrichment visits. What would I need to make those amazing? What kind of training would I need to do? What would my visit look like? What my marketing messaging look like? Do if I have a team? How would I train my employees to make sure that this goes off really well? What equipment would I have to have? It's all of the other follow up questions that we need to work through. And when we don't write it down, when we don't put it somewhere, we don't go through those questions at all. So whether that's it's a new service, whether it's a social media post, that happens a lot of okay, I just need to make a social media post. I just need to do it. Just need to get out there. Oh, but man, what if the branding is not on point, and what if all this stuff is there? Maybe you have new ideas for systems, or you want to do new things with your staff, your employees. We have to reframe our ideas of that blank notebook, that notebook is sitting in front of us. We want to write it down. Maybe it's a Notes app, whatever that is. We want to write it down. We have to change it and view our blank page as a work space, not a performance. You have to view the blank page as a workspace and not a performance. It's a workspace because it's working. It's it's in the creative process. It's not done yet. We're still going through processes and iterations. We're still thinking about this. We're still correcting and changing and making this better. It's not a one and done thing. The curtain doesn't just open and then we go out there, we do the performance, and it has to be perfect, and then it closes and we're done and we move on. That's not what the creative process is like at all. It's a workspace. It's constantly proving, improving and changing and evolving for us. And when we can change our mindset from a blank page to making it a workspace, someplace where we go to make sure that we are putting our ideas together. When we can get to that point, it really unlocks what I think is one of the secret powers of that notebook, and that's why on the very cover of every single notebook that I have, I write the phrase nothing doesn't go in here. Nothing doesn't go in here. If you're an English nerd, a grammar nerd, you can check me on that. But I think it's it's right. The reason I write this on here is because I have to remove my internal filters. I have to stop myself from second guessing what goes in here? Nothing doesn't go in here. Our daughter is actually going through and learning double negative. So this is very applicable right now. I have to make sure that my brain understands that there's no right or wrong thing to put in a notebook. I work hard to make sure that I have as few active notebooks in my life as possible. I have usually a big one at my desk and then a small travel one that I keep with me so that if I'm out and about, I can do that. That's all I have, and I have everything written on both of those. And this is because whether it's a work related thing, whether it's a personal thing, because, remember, we're small business owners. We're sometimes solo operators that we are we You are the interface of personal and business. So whether it's the personal grocery list or whether it's the new hiring checklist that you have to put together, it goes in the notebook. It stops the second guessing, because when I have these ideas in my head, I again that builds up that mental clutter, and I end up running around life way too full, and whenever I'm too full of ideas, or I'm too full of concern or worry about about forgetting the ideas, because that's that's really actually the biggest thing here, of of it's the mental clutter of worry about forgetting the ideas that I had when I'm there. I'm not creating new things because I'm so preoccupied with forgetting the stuff that I came up with previously, and I kind of stagnate, and I stopped moving forward. So when you have that SOP tweak, when you're when you're training a new employee, and you're like, Huh, okay, well, that sounds kind of weird. Let me, let me write that down, maybe you get some new client feedback, and you really need to process this. I think a great practice is, when you get client feedback, write out the words that they wrote. You write out how that was, how you felt about that, right? What were you thinking in that moment? It allows you to process that. Maybe you have a new thing that you're wanting with pet care. Maybe you're wanting to do that new project in your back garden or something, right, like that. All that stuff can go in a notebook so that you don't have to worry about it later. It's kind of this concept of, I like to think of it as I need to capture my ideas without judgment. And who's the judgment coming from? It's me. It's me when I've got that thing I want to do, when I have that idea, when I have that concern, when I have that worry, when I have that task, I need to write it down without judgment, because I'm freer to do the other things in my life. And again, when I open up the notebook to the first page, I write the first page is profound, and this is really okay, that when you open up that first page, that's a big deal. We used to leave this blank because I was concerned honestly about ruining the notebook. Are my ideas worthy enough of going in here? Well, okay, that idea, that's pretty stupid to do. So I'm not actually going to write that down. But when we claim this, when we say, okay, no, the first page is profound, which means that no matter what else happens when, no matter what else gets written after this in the notebook, I'm good. The first page was profound. The first phase was awesome. Writing simple notes can really change a lot of things. Megan and I have often written down ideas or a feeling that we had during an employee check in, and been able to go back to that and say, okay, you know what? When we did that, that check in with the employee, you know, they mentioned this phrase or and I kind of felt that they were a little concerned about mileage. And so I need to circle back to them, and I need to talk to them again about how to submit mileage and make sure they have that information, because maybe they're a little bit embarrassed to admit that they don't know where to go for that, because we cover it so heavily during the onboarding and training process. So let me just get that really quick. I know the idea for our pet loss Memorial events came from a simple note where I just wrote, help pet owners grieve, and from that came our events that we put on twice a year at our different service areas, so that we can make sure that we are providing a space and permission for pet owners to grieve the loss of their pet, and doing it from a community
Collin 18:39
aspect, you have a voice and you have authority in your ideas and your concepts and your thoughts. They are worthy of writing down. They are important to put down somewhere so that you can go back to them and process them. Because here's the other thing that happens oftentimes, we have really good ideas at inopportune moments. Maybe you have got that brilliant idea while you are also very stressed, or a client just called you and they're not happy with the service, and you, in that moment, have an idea for how to make this better next time, put it down somewhere and then come back to it when you're not so elevated. Maybe you have something going on in your personal life and you see a really good business opportunity before you well, write it down and then have a weekly check in process. Usually on Fridays is a great place to do this, where you look back at everything that you wrote down in your notebook for the previous week and you say, What didn't I get to? What still needs process to move forward, and what can I get rid of that allows you to go, Okay, I'm in a better headspace right now to relook at this business idea, this business decision, and I can look at this with clarity, and I can really see this for what it is, instead of through my stress filled lenses. Starting is the milestone not finishing. Starting is the mile. Milestone starting is the real, hardest, most difficult part, and when we can do that in a simple way, I'm trying to do that with my with my nothing doesn't go in here, with my first page, is profound. What I'm trying to do is get myself to just start something. Get myself to go from ideating and thinking and hypothesizing to an action of writing it down and just tipping that little stone over the ledge is usually enough for me to get that ball rolling so that I can do the next step and the next step and the next step and the next step. But if it stays locked away in my head, that's never going to happen. 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In the space we're talking about is our brain. So if we're so full of worry and concern and other thoughts and other thoughts and ideas that we're desperately trying not to forget. Where are the opportunities coming from in our brains? When we start writing this down, there's this immediate relief of getting things out of our head, because now all of a sudden it's like, okay, I don't have to worry about, I don't have the injury, I don't have to expend the energy for keeping this in my brain anymore, and I can move on to the next thing. It kind of unlocks, kind of removing the dam of ideas and thoughts of, hey, this is gone. I can now let things freely flow through me, and I'll get back to them, because I've got that review day on my calendar every every week I sit down, I review what I wrote down, but now they just come ideas are going to just come through me, and it kind of unlocks that it now I also have space for deep thinking, where I have a problem, maybe something big comes up. I've got a big initiative in my life. I need to make space for that. The last thing I want to do is be focused on the intricacies of a brand new SOP, this new policy that I'm trying to put in place for my clients, or how I'm going to train my employees and my brain keeps circling around these other thoughts and flitting around here and there and say, Hey, I know you're really focused on writing this step by step procedure for your new for your new employees, but don't forget don't forget that on Tuesday you've got to take out the trash. Well, that doesn't need to be there in that moment. So I'm going to write that down. I'm going to make a reminder for myself. I'm going to put that off to the side so I can focus more on these things. Because the deeper we're able to think, the actually, the less time it takes to do any one given task, and a huge part of that is just doing a brain dump, mind sweep whenever I begin to start this process. And I'm just going to put it all over here. These are all things that I'm worried about, concerned about, or thinking about. It all goes over here and now my brain is clear and I can focus on these other things that also helps me be more present during my visits, or maybe my phone calls with a potential client, or whenever I'm on a meeting with an employee, we're just more present because my brain isn't constantly trying to pull me back to this other thing, and when we're talking about the safety and health and well being of people's pets and homes that's incredibly important. And whether you're doing this or you can encourage your employees with this practice of, hey, if you've got a really busy day, if you've had a lot going on in your life, I think something to do before you start your visits, go to your phone app, your notes app on your phone, or if you have a notebook. Just write everything down that's kind of currently freaking you out, or that you're currently worried about, you're currently thinking or you want to do in the future, write it all out, put it away, and know that you're going to get back to it. And I know I just mentioned Notes app on your phone. Not all of this has to be done in a physical notebook with pen and paper, pencil and paper. That's personally what I love to do. But you can do this process with, again, paper notebooks, and with these two phrases written on them. It's just nice. It's it's something that keeps me grounded and physically connected to my work. You can also use something like Google Docs for tracking your ideas, where you just have a Google doc named ideas, or maybe you just name it notebook or nothing. Doesn't go in here as the title of the document. And anytime you have something, you open that up, you create a new line at the very top, and you write out what you were thinking, write out what needs to be done, and then that way, that's always there. This is especially great if you're needing to collaborate or share with a manager, or daily manager or or a business partner. You. Have that there, and then share the document with them so that they can have access to that stuff too. Maybe you've got slack, you can use Slack channels, different channels for different ideas that you're working with your team. And you can just tell them, hey, there may be times throughout the day where I have an idea that I think is really important. I'm going to bring you in on a group chat on this in Slack, and I'm gonna put it here, and so we can talk about this later, but I just need to get it off my brain so that it's there and we can use it later. Voice memos are also a fantastic thing to do this if there's built in app on your phone that allows you to just pop it open, record a quick voice memo and then move on throughout your day, get it out of your head, vocalize it again. This is another great way of processing ideas or tasks or possibilities that you have. Writing it down is one thing. Speaking it out loud is another. And so right, put it in there, and then again on your review day, go back to those voice apps, go back to that Google Doc, go back to the Slack channel, go back to that paper notebook and figure out what you need to do next. And I will say, I just, you know, there's four or five places to put this stuff. That's why I think it's really important to limit the amount of places you put ideas and concepts. Because one thing that's going to happen is, if you've got, oh, I have my work notebook and my personal notebook, and I've got my voice memos that I only use whenever I'm walking, and I've got this other thing that it is, what happens is, all of a sudden you're going to get an idea, and the first thing that your brain is going to ask is, where does this go?
Collin 26:27
Where does this go? Okay, well, I'm out walking, so I should be using voice apps, but this is for my personal thing. And so where's my personal notebook? Well, maybe, okay, well, I'm not actually going to put it down, because I'm going to wait to write it down somewhere later, whenever it's more convenient for me. No, no, we can't do that with our ideas. We need to have the idea and it needs to immediately go out and go somewhere. That's what allows us to keep the ideas flowing and stay focused and present in the moment. We don't want to be processing we need to remove as many barriers as possible to us putting it down on paper and stop judging and processing our ideas before we've had a chance to even really think about them. I personally like the idea of writing ideas as they come to you that might not work depending on the kind of work or setup that you have. So maybe you do something more of like a morning pages. Every morning you wake up and you write these out. You just say, Okay, here's everything that's on my brain. Here's all the tasks that I want to do. Here's the ideas that I've had overnight, or what I'm thinking on, or what I'm worried about and concerned about. I'm going to do that in the mornings so the rest of the day is fresh for me. Another tactic to do this are the brain dumps. This is more like what I described earlier, of okay, a big process in front of me. I got this big project, and I need to be doing a lot of deep work, so I'm going to take a few moments to just write down everything before I start this project, before I start this process, before I go into this meeting, I need to write all of my concerns, worries, thoughts, ideas that are currently on my brain over here, so that I'm clear and focused going into this. You can also think of doing something like a Trello board, where you can start an idea in Trello, and then build logical next steps from that that you can follow and check and click off and mark off with the process and progress that you're making with that that works great for some people, if you need to see processes and progress moving forward on your ideas to make help make sure that You're staying focused, you're staying accomplished, instead of more ethereal and more less less physical types of work. The key idea with this, the key important thing, is that we have to separate our capture from our analysis. We have to separate my idea creation to whenever I go in and critique it, when I try and do both of those things at the same time, my ideas don't go anywhere. And when I give myself space and time brain capacity and make sure that I'm in a good mood for looking at these ideas again, that's really where the magic happens, because when we when we try and edit too early, we actually clip off a lot of possibilities when I have an idea for growing a team, or maybe I have an idea for expanding into a new service area, if I edit too early, what am I doing? I'm editing from where I currently and am and what I can currently manage and going well. I can't currently train and hire people five hours away. I can't currently market five hours away. I can't currently do these things five hours away. So this isn't possible. Instead, whenever I can give myself time and space, I'm able to look at this and think of the possibilities and think of a better way forward. I am not overthinking this, because I can see clearly, oh, well, here's everything we need to go instead of asking, Will this scale, we should ask, what is this? What's the purpose of this idea? It doesn't have to be again, doesn't have to be perfect, right from the very beginning. And say, as this current idea is and. Exists in the world? Is this perfect and will this succeed? I don't want to ask that question. I just simply want to ask, what is this? Is there anything to this? Maybe you're trying to find new ways to connect and retain your employees. You're trying to think of ways to impact them. And you're like, Man, I really want to give everybody a gift, but gifts are so expensive, so I can't give gifts. Okay? Well, maybe, what do you think of what is this? My idea is to help my team feel appreciated. Okay, are there ways to make my team feel appreciated without expending all of my profit in my business? I'm going to say yes, there are absolutely ways that we can do that, and should be doing that in our business. But if I immediately stop and go, well, gifts are expensive, so I can't do this. I've clipped way too early. I've edited myself way too early, because I'm only thinking about what I'm possible and what is possible for me to do right now, as opposed to what systems, what support, what structures do I need in place to implement this down the line? All of this is being a creative person. All this is part of being a creative business owner and entrepreneur. And when we limit ourselves through the tools and mindsets that we have about ourselves and the validity of our ideas, we limit the potential of our business, and we limit the potential of ourselves. So my challenge for you this week is to get a notebook, not a fancy one. I love to use the composition notebooks because they are big, easy to write in. They also are very cheap, and you can find them on sale a lot of times for less than $1 love composition notebooks. They're also meant and built to be handled and shoved into bags and take some sort of abuse. So they're great for these purposes. Grab a composition notebook or a favorite notebook that you have write nothing doesn't go in here on the front. Flip to that very first page and write the first page is profound, and what I'd love for you to do is try and capture at least one new idea for the next 30 days, every day, Capture One new idea that you have and start that process of building those muscles. Okay, I'm gonna write down my idea. I'm just gonna write down. You're not processing it, you're not thinking about it, you're not analyzing it, you're just writing it down. Remember, no idea is too weird or too small or too early to do this. It doesn't have to be possible. It might not actually work out in the end, but we don't know about that yet. We don't know where these ideas are going to take us. And that's the wonderful part about this. That's what makes this process so powerful, is that when we don't limit ourselves, amazing things can happen. 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