re: I Started a "Dirt Notebook" (Beautiful Ones Hold Back My Bad Ideas)

Since 2024, I’ve kept ideapads to capture bad ideas. Back then, by pure chance, I found the concept of becoming an idea machine. That’s writing 10 bad ideas about anything. Every. Single. Day. That habit has helped me write books and keep my creative juices flowing. It’s been so helpful that I made it Idea #5 in my book, 10 Surprisingly Simple Ideas That Changed My Life And Could Change Yours Too. That book itself started as a 10-idea list. But before starting to write bad ideas, I faced the question of where to write them. Those days, a friend came from France on her vacation. She brought me a Mona Lisa notebook as a gift, likely from the Louvre. It was simply too beautiful to fill it with my bad ideas. Afraid of “damaging” it, I stapled recycled paper into an ideapad. A notebook small enough to only write 10 lines, one per idea. I went through the same experience Kwist shared in this post: “In an attempt to change [keeping clean and tidy notebooks], I’ve started a dedicated “dirt…