The promotion of brainstorming as a starting point is all the more surprising as it is not the origin of most ideas: The things you are supposed to find in your head by brainstorming usually don’t have their origins in there. Rather, they come from the outside: through reading, having discussions and listening to others, through all the things that could have been accompanied and often even would have been improved by writing.

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Sebastian Trzcinski-Clément

How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking (For Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers) – Sönke Ahrens

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If you’re finding it hard to write, go do some reading or research and take notes.