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ha! I get that sometimes too. I suspect it's fairly common which manifests in people having great ideas in the shower or somewhere similar when their attention

• smackeyacky 3y ago
  It’s something you can train yourself to get better at. At least in my experience: 1. Get a tough problem 2. Read all the surrounding information about it. If a solution doesn’t appear then it’s distraction time 3. Go do something completely unrelated for a while. I like to tinker with something mechanical but listening to music or doing exercise both work. Anything where you can get a decent flow going works for me. Quite often just after I have finished with the distraction I get a good idea about the original problem. It used to be about 50/50 whether this would work for me but it’s now around 80/20. Like anything it takes practice and you need to find the right distraction for you
• ted_bunny 3y ago
  But, the shower is when their attention is relatively the most focused. There are few distractions in the shower, making it one of the very few times westerners are unable to choose not to "be here now."