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Ask HN: Do you set aside time just for "thinking?"
If so,
(1) how often and how much?
(2) how often and how much do you think would be optimum for you?
I used to be fairly disciplined about setting aside a half-hour to an hour several mornings a week. Often I would "think" about things that weren't directly related to my work but rather to my interests- perhaps work a math puzzle, or clarify my thoughts on some topical issue. But I have always fallen back into the mode of just getting on with my day (which involves a fair amount of thinking in its own right, to be sure).
How much do I think would be optimum? I'm not sure- I haven't really thought about it :-)
Note that I'm not talking about meditation, unless you have a "thinking" form of meditation (and not, say, following your breath).
- whichdan 15y agoI take the environmental-friendly approach with ridiculously long showers.
- lmcdowell 15y agoIt's funny, but this is a ridiculously common thing.
- thejteam 15y agoSeveral times a day, for about 1/2 hour at a time. I take walks to break up the workday. I think about all sorts of things during these walks. My job. Politics. Companies I want to start. The idiotic college down the street from me that wants to spend a million dollars on road construction because the students don't look both ways before they cross the street. I like to break it up into smaller chunks so that some time can lapse and I can see things more clearly. I got into this habit during college(10 years ago now :( ) I would just walk around campus at random thinking. I did look both ways before I crosses the street however.
- AznHisoka 15y agoI usually think during my commute, and implement that thinking when I get home to save time.