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Re:General and Surprising by perpetualcrayon on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @10:20AM (#15238512)
I find group sessions generally aren't very productive also. I am strictly talking about brainstorming I do independently.
Re:General and Surprising by vanderZwan on Thursday September 14, 2017 @08:04AM (#15247064)
I figured - the way you described your process wouldn't fit the systematic brainstorming style :)

Anyway, I think get what you're saying with not writing things down: you're forcing yourself to start from the ground up, so the result matches the problem better. Having said that, I wonder if this isn't more dependent on how you note things down and organise your thoughts, because like others have mentioned here, I would have lost a lot of ideas if not for short scribbles.