Man, I always figured brokers were legit but hearing this totally changed my view.

100 slips in a jar is the kind of thing that looks pointless to everyone else but means you actually showed up for yourself. The part about the best stories coming from slips you almost threw away is the real gold here, because that tells me the throwaway ideas were the ones your brain hadn't overthought yet. Once you sit with an idea too long it gets polished and safe, but the weird 2am scraps still have teeth. I bet if you went back through all 100 right now, the ones that scare you a little would be the ones worth writing. That jar isn't just a stash, it's a record of which ideas you trusted too late. Maybe start pulling two slips a week instead of one and see if the ratio of good to bad shifts.