Shower Thoughts
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Shower Thoughts
Washing the dishes, working out, vacuuming, taking a walk, showering—many activities seem to prime us for creative, problem-solving thinking, and they may achieve this priming by nudging us into a mind-wandering, default mode network-optimized brain-state.
Which in practice means we're engaged in less-focused thinking, which can in turn help us come up with new ideas (though it's usually recommended we take these ideas with a grain of salt, sort of like the advice to "write drunk, edit sober").
Here's a piece on this type of thinking and how it works: https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2022/08/the-science-of-why-you-have-great-ideas-in-the-shower
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