I sometimes feel like I don’t know how to deliberately come up with ideas at all, but I’m not sure if I’m actually like that (it’s probably just insecurity or something, lol).
Do people like that actually exist, though? If so, why are they like that? And how do they learn to deliberately think of ideas?
Like I described in the last paragraph.
I solve engineering problems for a living.
Step 1. Check all the common problems. Is it the power supply? Measure every node? Check the wires? Everything is as it’s supposed to be yet it does not work. Know every part of how it’s supposed to work.
Step 2. Get up and go for lunch. Thoughts still swirl around in my head as I eat, I sit down with my coffee and usually get one or two more things to try popping into my head.
From what I’ve had described to me it’s the same thing being creative.
Sit down and write. The last paragraph does not sound good. Rewrite it, again and again. Still sound bad.
Get up and do something else, take a slow walk or something and see if you get some ideas.
I see.