It's hard to come up with funny things with a gun on your head. It's hard to come up with startup ideas with a gun on your head. The eureka moment famously happened for Archimedes in a bathtub.
What are the implications of this?
- Don't force it.
- And maybe leave some cushion. My friend and I have been doing a no-social-media-or-YouTube-or-news-or-Netflix challenge. I don't think it's too much of a stretch to say it has been life-changing. Just mentally - there is so much more space. I read and I write. I work a bit more. I talk to friends. I engage with this place. I have to believe that's a better place to get ideas from then being stressed.
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