When Ideas Overrule Each Other

…and how you deal with that

Andrea Pronk-De Palm
Nov 7 · 6 min read

It happens to me all the time: I have an idea, usually in the shower or doing something else that prevents me from noting down that idea immediately. I will have to remember it until I can reach my phone (with dry hands) or one of my notebooks scattered about the house (with dry hands). Often, in that relatively short time this happens, another idea has popped into my head, overruling the original one.
I jot it down, trying to remember that first idea — which was good enough for me to want to note it in the first place — but it is…

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Andrea Pronk-De Palm

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