> By encouraging our minds to wander, leisure activities pull us out of our present reality, which in turn can improve our ability to generate novel ideas or wa

> By encouraging our minds to wander, leisure activities pull us out of our present reality, which in turn can improve our ability to generate novel ideas or ways of thinking. And then you get the post [Nobody Likes the “Idea Guy”](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19280907 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19280907). You can have great ideas but the hard part is the intersection between being lucky to be able to apply them at work, those ideas to be relevant and execute them properly.