# Keep Your Ideas Moving ## Metadata - Author: [[The Building a Second Brain Podcast]] - Full Title: Keep Your Ideas Moving - Category: #source/podcasts - URL: https://share.snipd.com/episode/8221cd5f-ad01-4165-a632-6ad1265074fa ## Highlights - How to Unblock Yourself and Move Forward Key takeaways: (* If you can plot out your days and weeks by having different energies and exploring different ideas, you can move around and get unstuck in different places., * By having diversity of activities, you are intentionally unblocking yourself and translating ideas from one domain to another.) Transcript: Speaker 2 I think that what you're saying here is that if you can plot out your days and your weeks by having different energies and exploring different ideas, knowing that you're going to get blocked in one place, and then you can move to the other place, and then that new energy will get you unstuck in another place. By having that diversity of s that you do, conversations that you have, articles that you write, power points, lies that you create, courses that you teach, by moving around, it's not that you're scattered and unfocused. You are purposely unblocking yourself and translating ideas from one domain to another. ([Time 0:02:58](https://share.snipd.com/snip/55d5ca84-8c96-4abf-9b79-26526edb8e0c)) - The Benefits of Multi Tasking Key takeaways: (* Multiasking is a bad idea because it can lead to loss of progress., * It is important to save your work externally so that you can continue working on it even if you have to step away.) Transcript: Speaker 1 Ye, you know this, this kind of comes back to the second bran idea. Because so so think about what's the problem with multi asking? What's the problem with switching back and forth between things? It's that you lose your progress. Right? If you're working on a a memo to your company, and you only get 50 % finished and you move to something else, when you come back, you'll have lost whatever thinking was done. And this goes back to why it's so important and so powerful to save everything outside your head when you're doing that work externally, and you step away, for whatever reason, youre current progress, by definition, is saved. It's there in an external medium that doesn't just disappear like your thoughts do. And so ironically, and this is very weird how this happens, thinking and working externally allows you to do many more simultaneous things, which reaps the benefits of multi tasking without any of the downsides. So the advice of don't multi task, for most people who try to keep everything in theirhads, is absolutely true. You shouldn multi task. You can't multi task. With a second brain. You can, and you should, and you must, because you're not limited to only doing one thing at a time. ([Time 0:03:38](https://share.snipd.com/snip/8f96f8b4-6451-44a6-97c6-9436eace2707)) - The Benefits of Multiasking Key takeaways: (* Multiasking is a bad idea because it can lead to loss of progress., * It is important to save your thoughts outside your head when you are working on something else.) Transcript: Speaker 1 Ye, you know this, this kind of comes back to the second bran idea. Because so so think about what's the problem with multi asking? What's the problem with switching back and forth between things? It's that you lose your progress. Right? If you're working on a a memo to your company, and you only get 50 % finished and you move to something else, when you come back, you'll have lost whatever thinking was done. And this goes back to why it's so important and so powerful to save everything outside your head when you're doing that work externally, and you step away, for whatever reason, youre current progress, by definition, is saved. It's there in an external medium that doesn't just disappear like your thoughts do. And so ironically, and this is very weird how this happens, thinking and working externally allows you to do many more simultaneous things, which reaps the benefits of multi tasking without any of the downsides. So the advice of don't multi task, for most people who try to keep everything in theirhads, is absolutely true. You shouldn multi task. You can't multi task. With a second brain. You can, and you should, and you must, because you're not limited to only doing one thing at a time. ([Time 0:03:38](https://share.snipd.com/snip/d668f14f-55d4-48bd-ad83-515190e2ab5b)) - Flow: The Importance of Feeling Your Ideas Key takeaways: (* When it comes to ideas, it's more important to stay in the flow and feel the ideas than to worry about any particular outcome., * It's important to keep your ideas moving so that you can better embody the "springtime river" feeling.) Transcript: Speaker 2 When it comes to this idea of keeping your ideas moving. I always think of a river. There's two kinds of rivers. There's that fresh springtime river, the one that just flows like crazy, the kind that, if you step into it, you almost feel like you're going to fall over because the river has so much motion. And whenever you look at those rivers, you can see the pebbles at the bottom. And then there are those murky rivers, the one where there's nothing flowing, there's no fountain in the middle, there's lily pads on top. It's dark and gross. And i think the brain is the same way. When you have a flowing river, ideas ind ideas out what ends up happening, ou can actually see what you're thinking so much better. Because often when i'm just alone for a couple days, i don't actually try to produce anything. I become that murky river, and my brain almost feels gross. I can't really feel what i'm thinking. So i always try to just have the flow, have the flow, so that i can embody that springtime river feeling. So true. Speaker 1 So ture, it's it. That's what it is. It's more important to stay and flow, to feel the flow, than any particular outcome. Right? I think about it, if you, you know, if you have the joy of creating, you're in that me think about what flow means. Flow is the the experience of maximum enjoyment, maximum creativity, maximum engagement, full immertion. Can you imagine any better motivational tool? I mean that that's even a better motivational tool than reaching your goals or producing results and outcomes. ([Time 0:04:47](https://share.snipd.com/snip/fe3c5d18-bd18-4cf2-8ae3-afafdc527776)) - Flow: The Experience of Maximum Enjoyment, Creativity, and Engagement Key takeaways: (* It is more important to stay in the flow and enjoy the experience of creativity than to worry about any particular outcome., * To stay in the flow, you need to keep moving and not allow yourself to get bogged down by any one problem.) Transcript: Speaker 1 So ture, it's it. That's what it is. It's more important to stay and flow, to feel the flow, than any particular outcome. Right? I think about it, if you, you know, if you have the joy of creating, you're in that me think about what flow means. Flow is the the experience of maximum enjoyment, maximum creativity, maximum engagement, full immertion. Can you imagine any better motivational tool? I mean that that's even a better motivational tool than reaching your goals or producing results and outcomes. Like if you have joy and excitement eve each moment by moment, you're unstoppable. Any problem is just a more interesting puzzle. It's a more interesting rubiks cube for you to figure out, becase you'e enjoying each moment. And so what does flow require is movement. You've got to keep moving. Don't allow yourself to think that whatever problem you're stuck with is the only possible problem you can be working on. Just pivot. Pivot to something else and come back later. But save the first thing in your second brain so that you can come back to it and it's exactly how you left it. ([Time 0:05:51](https://share.snipd.com/snip/adade814-7e6c-455b-a902-697a18acfeb3))