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Kathleen Spracklen's avatar

Thinking of Ivy Lee's Method as an instance of the 13th way of Level 3 Amplify: Make sustainable what is normally demanding, I am adding to my task list for tomorrow, to select one of the 50 ways you offer in this article, ponder it, and incorproate it into anaction step for the following day. If that bears fruit, do it again, whatever "again" means. (i.e. another action step toward the same "way", or chsing another "way" to ponder.

Just because there are 50 ideas doesn't mean that you have to try them all at once.

Álvaro García's avatar

That's great, I'm glad it inspired you.

The truth is, I also use some more than others. These are some examples of the kind of thinking I usually have when I want to develop an idea I've seen that has inspired me or when something just occurred to me.

With these kinds of questions, I begin to shape and expand it until it becomes the Mental Garden articles. The artistic process has a more creative and spontaneous side, but it also has another side very much based on pure technique and repetitive practice.