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Indeed. Many of my best ideas have come to me in the shower, on a walk and even in the middle of the night. It's ridiculous to say you should have a stopwatch
by lawn 4y ago
Indeed.
Many of my best ideas have come to me in the shower, on a walk and even in the middle of the night.
It's ridiculous to say you should have a stopwatch with you at all times, so daily billing it is.
If they don't want to that, just assign 8 hours as a full day and stop worrying of you reach them or not.
- linsomniac 4y agoThere is a science component to ideas in the shower. I read somewhere that the shower puts you into a similar state to the waking/sleeping transition that people like Einstein tried to ride by sitting and holding something heavy and loud, so if the slipped too far towards sleep they'd drop it and wake themselves up. I don't have any references to where I heard that though. Similar lines, I read about some earlish computer pioneer that was offered a senior position at a company and the deal breaker was whether he could get a shower in his private bathroom off his private office. Company said no so he moved on. "I have my best ideas in the shower." I don't recall who it was, Cray sticks in my head, but I don't think it was him, someone similar though. Sorry for the vast amounts of vague above.
- lawn 4y agoI think I've heard the same story about sleeping with a ball, but with Edison.
- WorldMaker 4y agoI have also heard it referred to it as "body is busy, mind is open" states. In the shower you've got a routine that keeps your body busy enough doing things, but you generally don't have to devote a lot of mental effort to that routine, most of it is truly muscle memory. Similarly, things like going for a walk or getting a little exercise can give your body plenty of things to do, but fewer things the mind needs to check on.
- eurasiantiger 4y agoDidn’t know Einstein was holding my mixtape.
- infinite8s 4y agoAlan Kay has often said that he gets his best ideas in the shower (I think the idea for efficiently implementing overlapping windows was one of them). I can't remember where I read it but he asked for a shower in his office at PARC but they said no (but he nevertheless stayed on).