New ideas emerge in silence

New ideas cannot develop without silence. With constant stimulation to keep our mind busy, there is no growth inside of us. Our mind needs space and time to process new information. You have to be with yourself and let your mind wander to just take ideas further and further until a spark happens.

Of course, you can consume media and get ideas there. But these are not your own ideas. You just happened to agree with them. They will not anchor themselves like your own ideas because you need your own thought process to really root them and later protect them from the outside or from conflicting ideas.

Time is an important factor. You should not feel time pressure. There should also be no pressure to have to do other things instead. It takes as long as it takes. I often conclude an idea or follow it to the end until there is nothing more for me to think about. If you truly take the time and relax, you will switch into diffuse thinking mode. That means that your brain can make new connections between areas that are normally not related. Sooner or later you will gain insights from that.