Digging in your garbage isn’t fun and it’s definitely not something you want to do all the time.
But sometimes you threw away something six months ago that, now, is really useful.
Metaphorically speaking.
Your old ideas for taking over the world, your old demos, voice memos, journals, lyric notes on your phone…all that you threw in the metaphorical trash months and years ago. It’s probably still a lot of trash, but there’s no way you have a perfect track record of only discarding the exact things that need to be discarded. Odds are you threw away some good stuff too.
If you haven’t in a while, maybe it’s garbage time.