The best ideas often begin as thoughts you almost dismissed.

The strongest ideas often arrive without credentials. They sound too simple, too odd, or too far from what you usually do, and the mind sorts them out fast because they do not resemble anything already approved. Speed of dismissal is not a measure of an idea’s worth, only of how well it matches your existing categories.

Start writing down the thoughts you almost threw away. Not to act on all of them, but to slow the sorting. Once a week, read the list and pick the one that still has some heat in it.