A thought rarely shows up when I’m sitting at my desk waiting for it. It comes at the traffic lights, in the shower, in the evening on my scooter, in the middle of a conversation. And it’s gone just as quickly as it came – pushed aside by the next message, the next appointment, the next worry.
I used to try to remember everything. The result was a head that felt like a browser with forty tabs open. None of it was really gone, but none of it was within reach either. And at night the half-finished thoughts came back.
These days I do it differently. When something goes through my head, I speak it into my phone straight away. A few seconds, unsorted, just the way it sounds right now. Or I write a single sentence on a scrap of paper. Not pretty, not complete. Just so that it’s there.
The amazing part: the moment the thought is outside my head, it gets quieter inside. I don’t have to hold on to it anymore. It waits for me, and I can turn back to whatever is in front of me.
When I listen back to my voice notes later, I notice how I think: which topics keep coming back, where I go round in circles, what really matters to me. That’s exactly how the thoughts here on THOUGHTS come about. They are sorted with the help of AI – but the raw material is always your own voice, on a perfectly ordinary day.
When everything is talking at you at once, you don’t have to think louder. It’s enough to give one single thought a place outside your head.
Three questions to keep thinking. Choose an answer – you will then get an explanation and a prompt for self-reflection.
How do you most like to hold on to a thought like this?
Thank you. Every answer fits – take it with you into your day. Would you like to share something yourself?
