The ideas I couldn't explain
My ideas rarely arrive through logic. They come to me, sometimes while someone else is still talking, and when I'm asked how I got there the honest answer is that I don't know. Just because we can't explain a decision in rational terms, it doesn't mean it's not valid.
From the outside, a Conceptual thought can sound vague. It tends to arrive as a question rather than a claim, and there's rarely a chain of reasoning behind it that can be laid out for someone else.
Thinking that can't be backed up with evidence or a sequence tends to get minimized - and I know this because it happened to me. I got to the point where I was reluctant to say what I saw because I didn't want to be asked how I'd arrived at it. For a while I even questioned whether I could make good decisions at all, because I assumed a decision I couldn't justify wasn't a real one.
Not every Conceptual thought turns out to be right. But often someone is seeing something real, and the fact that they can't yet explain it doesn't mean it isn't there. The tendency is to move past the thought that can't be defended. Giving it a moment before moving on costs very little, and it can change everything.
Gregor