“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something.” - Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit.
In the simplest sense, Ideas are just small mental collisions.
Idea A bumps into idea B and the combination of these two bits of mental charge creates more energy than they had on their own.
This is the alchemy of an idea.
This can only occur if you give your brain the resources it needs.
It needs stimulus - it needs fresh idea A’s and idea B’s.
Those of us who do the same things every day: taking the same route to work, watching the same TV shows, having the same conversations - are failing to provide our brains with what they need.
Fresh stimulus means fresh ideas.
Feed your brain.
How?
Read a new magazine today
Take a new route to work
Go to a new talk show or art gallery
Tune in to a new radio station
Try a new hobby
Watch a new movie
Cook something you have not cooked before
Travel to places you have never been.
Try these new habits and let me know how trying new experiences affect your mood, your interest, and your vibe in life.
And if you already have tried injecting change into your day-to-day routine, how did you go? How did it impact your health and well-being?
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