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# For the Best Ideas, Go Without
- URL: https://www.cjchilvers.com/blog/go-without/
- Published: 2021-03-22T16:57:33.000Z
- Updated: 2021-03-22T16:57:33.000Z
- Author: CJ Chilvers
- Tags: creativity, writing, constraints, photography

I just returned from a walk on the beach, jumping in the water, searching for shells with my son.

I had nothing on me that couldn’t be underwater in the ocean — pretty much just the clothes on my back.

That’s when all the ideas hit me.

- The best photos because I had no camera
- The best essays because I had no notebook
- The best Tweets because I had no phone

This is how it always has been, of course. Ideas flow when we go without. Nowadays, we’re just rarely without.