Whether it’s a speech, a slide deck, a blog post, or an email: the outline stifles creativity.
The outline provides form and structure, but it also doubles as a cage.
The antidote: let the words flow. Don’t worry about the structure. Write without inhibition. Get everything down on paper. Get comfortable with bad ideas, because the the bad ones arrive on time, and the good ones are fashionably late.
After all this, then allow yourself to add some structure.
But until then, ditch the outline.