“Top Ideas” & Visions, Promises & ideas in the shower

Lifehacker points to Paul Graham’s The Top Idea in Your Mind. “…the idea one thinks about when allowed to think freely—in the shower, for example—is more than a quiet obsession… a top idea in your head is getting all kinds of free, enthusiastic thinking that other ideas aren’t getting.” Graham goes on to talk about priorities and non-priorities, but the point I’d like to make here is that the “top idea” is a good indicator of what your vision or passion is. If you want to find out what God’s gifted you to do, one way might be to get away into solitude where you can have “free, enthusiastic thinking”—and see where it takes you. (You may have to practice a little of the Spirit’s fruit of self-discipline, but good top ideas could lead you toward your calling/vision.)

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