Forcing yourself to describe what you offer out loud (or in your head) can help you identify where the gaps are in your understanding of what you offer.
Explaining the problem as if you’re showing it to someone else
Often forces you to order any disjointed thoughts around the problem into a coherent order
Rather than bouncing between points as thought processes tend to go
This can reveal the presence of a missing link that gives you an obvious clue to the solution
Or at least the next steps towards one.
You could look at this “jumping mind” as a bunch of crooked, broken railroad tracks
That should be rebuilt
Or abandoned altogether
But forced into a linear fashion
Often leads to a
Hmmm…that’s actually not a bad idea.
I’m here,
Kevin