If you struggle to come up with ideas, and what you should do is say, i'm going to just like that tailor build upon an abundance of notes rather than the scarcity. The time that i am with people who are as inspired as i am about thinking, it sort of gets you out of your normal thought patterns,. It's like an algarthem for randomness too. You're just coming up with all these new ideas. And when you're in conversation, you are being transported into new intellectual territories. John o'donoghue, an irish poet, has this great line that lets you hear the things inside you that have always been there but you never knew you knew