Ideation #

People outside the snap #

We play in the future all the time #

Part of living in the now is that things continue to happen around us. Putin goes to war, ten ads try to take your mental space, someone falls down, someone gets up. Some now-happenings we can’t avoid: a car crashing through our living room wall. Some now-happenings we can buffer ourselves from: don’t check your email. 

So, the future keeps coming despite any effort on our part. BUT, we can, more or less successfully based on how it bursts in, take moments that are completely outside of time.

We ideate.

It can be revisiting a favorite memory in detail. (Remember that time when Pat did that one rockin’ thing?!)

It can be reimagining a recent encounter with more self-agency or wit than we were allowed or took in the moment. (Augh! I should have said, “That cat’s got a hat!”)

It can be thinking through an imagined ‘wouldn’t it be exciting!’ scenario. (I could be in Hawaii, on the beach, in a week, or maybe next May…)

It can even be like when I was thinking about writing this book: taking all that I’d learned through the years, how I might be able to string that out into a linear format, thinking of all the time it might take and how it might rub noses here and help people there. 

In other words: history, effort, future sense, how it all could be strung together to make an impact and what those impacts might be.

All of these recalibrate our thoughts, emotions, and what’s highest in memory amongst our living times, outside the snap.