List Writing is Motivating

But I’m not always motivated. In fact, I find it incredibly easy to veer off track and forget where I am and why.

Writing a brainstorm list of ideas around a particular question or topic has become one of the most productive things I do, and I do it pretty much every day.

Writing exhaustive lists encourages the bio-machinery at the back of my mind to spit out new ideas that weren’t easy to spot initially.

We already know what we need to know.

List-writing reveals the best of what we know in a beautifully fruitful birthing process.