GTFO(utside)

This isn’t fresh, new advice. You’ve heard this, you know it; hell, you’ve probably given it. But it’s so remarkably easy to get caught up in routine and urgency, and so radically effective when you do it, that it warrants yet another reminder.

When you’ve got significant decisions to make, or a big-context problem in your head, or are just feeling out of fuel: go outside. Ideally get as far from human-made noise as you can. A park, a favorite tree, the woods, a river, whatever you can get to that doesn’t feel like you’re in a manufactured box and doesn’t sound like production. Do it during work hours. What you’re doing is work, and you’re going to spend time capturing context and/or insight.

Take a notebook and a favorite pen and sketch as you go.

Brains do better at braining creatively when you get outside, or at least out of your routine environment. You’re not running away or procrastinating. You’re doing the important part.

When can you do this during your day tomorrow?