Keeping old ideas in your brain will help you come up with new ideas. Agree! Though, "Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them" doesn't mean that you sh

Keeping old ideas in your brain will help you come up with new ideas. Agree! Though, "Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them" doesn't mean that you should literally never remember anything. It's just not necessarily clear from context-less quote. I can't tell you the number of problems I have figured out while going for a long walk Happily, you are in agreement with the author of the quote - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Allen_(author) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Allen_(author) The point is not to forcibly resist remembering things. The point is to free yourself from the burden of remembering things that can simply be filed away (ie, reference documentation) so that you can be more present, focus on what's important, and free your mind up for more creative/productive thinking - including those walks where many of us get our best thinking done. :)