14.Forget about it
It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are.
Publilius Syrus
Eric: My wife’s got a terrible memory.
Ernie: Really?
Eric: Yes, she never forgets a thing.
Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise
There are three things I always forget. Names, faces—the third I can’t remember.
Italo Svevo
This is something you do only after you follow the advice in the previous chapter.
It is also something that I didn’t get the chance to do often enough in advertising. Usually there wasn’t time to forget about problems. You had to get ideas now. Not tomorrow. Now.
It’s the same in journalism. Just listen to Andy Rooney: “The best creative ideas are the result of the same slow, selective, cognitive process that produces the sum of a column of figures. ...
Get How to Get Ideas, 2nd Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
