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1 Save Ideas Offline – Thanks to wonderful productivity apps like Evernote and other smart technology solutions, there are many ways to save information digitally, but they can sometimes be lost in collections you never return to and the connections between them are hard to visualize. Instead, I routinely print articles, rip stories out of magazines and put them into a single trend folder which sits on my desk. Saving ideas offline allows me to physically spread them out later to analyze more easily.

2 Use a Timer – If given the chance, most of us will naturally take the time to analyze something that we see or find in a moment. Being fickle is partially about intentionally delaying that process and using a timer can help. The other benefit of literally using a timer when you are consuming some type of new media is that it forces you to evaluate things more quickly on a top level and then leave them behind as you move to something else.

3 Take Notes with Sharpies – Many of the articles and stories I find throughout the year are marked with just a few words of notes about the theme of the article and story. I use a Sharpie marker because the thicker lettering stands out and encourages me subtly to write less. This same trick can help you to make only the most useful observations in the moment and save any other ones for later.