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“Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May”: Tips for Collecting and Organizing Ideas, Part 3 – Capturing Ideas

Image via Wikipedia Ideas are paradoxical. While hours of urgent deep thought might leave us without a clue, at other times ideas seem to pop into our heads effortlessly, dazzling us with their perfection. Alas, these brilliant moments of inspiration come all too often when we’re busy doing other things — driving, showering, drifting off to sleep, […]

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“Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May”: Tips for Collecting and Organizing Ideas, Part 1 – Introduction

Image via Wikipedia “Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,” poet Robert Herrick advised his readers — for all too soon, you’ll be old and rosebud-gathering will be just one of many things you are no longer capable of. That’s the normal reading of the poem, but it occurs to me that it is in the very nature […]

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