Sitzfleisch and Catching IDEAS

Inspiration needs office hours.

I have nothing today so I am going to write about ideas. Ideas come and go all the time. They will disappear if you don‘t capture them. They are both important and so abundant that they are cheap.

Filmmaker David Lynch spoke about this in his masterclass (where I took notes that currently are not with me - nomad life - so from memory), how easily we lose ideas that come to us if we’re not ready to catch them. He compared it to fishing. And then to planting little seeds.

The big ones, naturally, are harder to catch. They need time and preparation and silence. Little fish, ideas that are just a fraction of, say, a future film or a design or a song (or a solution to a big problem for that matter) can slip through your fingers much easier but can be planted like a seed to grow into something much bigger.

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Read the full article with photos here:

https://hadassa.substack.com/p/sitzfleisch-and-catching-ideas