“The Think Tank” — Why I Get My Best Ideas From Sitting On The Toilet

Joe Garza
3 min readApr 29, 2019

Learn how to let your inspiration flow like diarrhea with this weird technique.

It’s taken as a matter of course in various artistic circles that analyzing one’s own creative process is a great way to kill it.

I disrespectfully disagree with this notion.

Analysis paralysis is certainly a real threat to productivity, but I view it as a temporary condition, one that any creative practitioner can learn to fight off.

The primary benefit of defining the motivating factors in one’s creative process is the ability to replicate those conditions that are conducive to craftsmanship, especially when one is feeling less than inspired.

And so, I’d like to present to you one my personal founts of literary stimulation:

The Toilet.

I know it sounds ridiculous, but I assure you, I’m being quite sober.

Read to find out why the ol’ pisspot is so crucial to my process of creating belles-lettres.

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