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The science of why you have great ideas in the shower
- gardenfelder 4y agohttps://archive.ph/tuaJg https://archive.ph/tuaJg Opens slowly sometimes. The key concept is what happens when your mind is "idle", which can happen many different places (including while driving). David Gelernter, in his book The Muse in the Machine [1] writes that the fog which exists between full sleep, and fully awake, is an opportunity for your mind to sort things out while the "foreground censors" are still not operational, allowing you to make connections you might not otherwise make. Monica Anderson points out that the secret sauce to making use of those ideas is to learn not to open your eyes until you have fully rehearsed those ideas. [1] https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Muse-in-the-Machine/David-Gelernter/9780743236553 https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Muse-in-the-Machi...