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- From: daveg@ee.ubc.ca (Dave Gagne)
- Subject: Re: Bad Places to have Good Ideas
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.170819.662@ee.ubc.ca>
- Organization: University of BC, Electrical Engineering
- References: <1992Jul23.171106.17913@ee.ubc.ca> <1992Jul24.160156.22858@linus.mitre.org>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 17:08:19 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul24.160156.22858@linus.mitre.org> cgates@mitre.org (Curt Gates) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul23.171106.17913@ee.ubc.ca> daveg@ee.ubc.ca (Dave Gagne)
- >writes:
- >> I was
- >> getting pretty worried about how I was going to remember all this good
- >> stuff. I tried desperately to curb the flow of ideas, lest I lose
- >> *all* of them before I could get out of the shower
- >
- >What! You mean you didnt run out into the street nude and ask passers by
- >for a pencil?
-
- I was gonna do that, but I live in a quiet neighborhood, and there
- aren't many people wandering the streets with pencils & paper.
-
- >Seriously, dont worry. The ideas will still be there. You may not be able
- >to access them exactly when you want them, but they are still there,
- >getting better all the time. Consider this part of your mind a friend you
- >can trust, not a messenger who will vanish when you grab a towel.
-
- Hmph. I've lost too many ideas in the shower to believe this. I get
- distracted too easily in there, especially when the hot water suddenly
- runs out...
-
- >If the ideas were coming as images, rather than words, you only need to
- >intensify the images, enhancing the colors, shapes, and detail.
-
- Tried that before too. The problem with that is that the idea(s)
- keep expanding and expanding. I have come close to plotting entire stories
- in the shower, but by the time I get to the end of the story, I have
- forgotten the beginning.
-
- Dave
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