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Great article. I can confirm I often come up with the new ideas in the shower. In general I taught myself to alternate periods of deep concentration work with

by rloc 11y ago

Great article. I can confirm I often come up with the new ideas in the shower. In general I taught myself to alternate periods of deep concentration work with periods of "pause" where I stop writing code and let my mind "wander" in relaxing activities. I recommend taking a step back when faced with a difficult problem to solve. Usually when I come back to work I take the initial problem with a more creative approach.

pqs 11y ago
Are we rediscovering the wheel all over again? Millions of people can confirm this. I also have ideas in the shower, when mindwandering. And also I have greate ideas when cycling home from work. At work I focus a lot, this allows me to push work and do a lot of things. But creativity comes in bursts, often outside the office, while cycling, walking, showering, eating ... but this is old. All this "new trends", are the same old things with new names. I'm sure the greeks had discovered most of this millennia ago.
- dasboth 11y ago
  I think this stems from the fact that other people's experiences are usually not enough to internalise something. You can tell me about it for hours, but unless I have a creative thought in the shower myself, I wont really know it to be true. Once I experience it for myself it'll feel like a genuine discovery even if other people have been doing it for millenia.
  - pqs 11y ago
    You're right. Each generation, each individual, in fact, must rediscover the wheel. The problem is that our world (science, media, etc.) is heavily biased towards novelty. Somehow, it is compulsory to explain everything as if it was a new discovery, a breakthrough, when it is older than walking (as we use to say in the Catalan language). I'm tired of reading article, after article, about new old things. People using a brain scanner to "discover" thinks we all know well. Maybe I should read just read old books and forget the media.

by rloc 11y ago

pqs 11y ago

Are we rediscovering the wheel all over again? Millions of people can confirm this. I also have ideas in the shower, when mindwandering. And also I have greate ideas when cycling home from work. At work I focus a lot, this allows me to push work and do a lot of things. But creativity comes in bursts, often outside the office, while cycling, walking, showering, eating ... but this is old. All this "new trends", are the same old things with new names. I'm sure the greeks had discovered most of this millennia ago.

dasboth 11y ago
I think this stems from the fact that other people's experiences are usually not enough to internalise something. You can tell me about it for hours, but unless I have a creative thought in the shower myself, I wont really know it to be true. Once I experience it for myself it'll feel like a genuine discovery even if other people have been doing it for millenia.
- pqs 11y ago
  You're right. Each generation, each individual, in fact, must rediscover the wheel. The problem is that our world (science, media, etc.) is heavily biased towards novelty. Somehow, it is compulsory to explain everything as if it was a new discovery, a breakthrough, when it is older than walking (as we use to say in the Catalan language). I'm tired of reading article, after article, about new old things. People using a brain scanner to "discover" thinks we all know well. Maybe I should read just read old books and forget the media.