There are a few instances where I’ve had “re-have an idea” 3 times, each in a slightly different form, before it stuck and affected me in any significant way. I noticed this when going through some old notebooks and seeing stub-thoughts of ideas that I was currently flushing out (and had been unaware that I had given this thing thought before). One example is with TAPS. Two winters ago I was writing about an idea I called “micro habits/attitudes” and they felt super important, but nothing ever came of them. Now I see that basically I was reaching at something like TAPs.
It seems like it would be useful to have a mental move along the lines of “Tag this idea/concept/topic as likely to be hiding something useful even if I don’t know what”
There are a few instances where I’ve had “re-have an idea” 3 times, each in a slightly different form, before it stuck and affected me in any significant way. I noticed this when going through some old notebooks and seeing stub-thoughts of ideas that I was currently flushing out (and had been unaware that I had given this thing thought before). One example is with TAPS. Two winters ago I was writing about an idea I called “micro habits/attitudes” and they felt super important, but nothing ever came of them. Now I see that basically I was reaching at something like TAPs.
It seems like it would be useful to have a mental move along the lines of “Tag this idea/concept/topic as likely to be hiding something useful even if I don’t know what”
I recently was going through the past 3 years of notebooks, and this pattern is incredibly persistent.